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Kagan Arik
Lecturer in Central Asian Languages and Culture

Office:

Center for Middle Eastern Studies
Pick Hall 213
5828 South University Avenue
Chicago, IL 60637
(773) 834-4472
Ph.D. University of Washington, Seattle, 1999.
Teaching at Chicago since 2000.

Email: kagana@uchicago.edu
SPECIAL INTERESTS: Turkic languages and cultures (Uzbek, Kazakh, Kirghiz, Tatar), Anthropology of Central Asia, Shamanism, Traditional medicine of Central Asian nomads, Turkic oral literature, Anthropology of consciousness/healing