Professional Affiliation

Postdoctoral Researcher, Institute for Advanced Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies, Higher School of Economics

Expert Bio

Mehmet Volkan Kasikci received his Ph.D. in history from Arizona State University in 2020. He is a historian of Soviet Central Asia and he wrote his dissertation on children and childhood in Kazakhstan from 1928 to 1953. For his research, he lived in Kazakhstan for more than three and a half years. His first article was published in Europe-Asia Studies in 2019.

Wilson Center Project

"Making Sense of Catastrophe: Experiencing and Remembering the Kazakh Famine"