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355 North Eagleson Ave.
Bloomington, IN 47405-1105
355 North Eagleson Ave.
Bloomington, IN 47405-1105
Biography
Dr. Gulnisa Nazarova is a native speaker of Uyghur. Her parents left the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in 1959 for Kyrgyzstan, where Gulnisa was born in 1966. The family moved to Uzbekistan in 1970, and Gulnisa graduated from high school in the Tashkent Region in 1982.
In 1987, she defended her thesis on comparative Russian and Uyghur syntax in the Philology Department at Ivanovo State University in Russia. In 1992, she defended her doctoral dissertation on Uyghur lexicology at the Institute of Uyghur Studies in Almaty, Kazakhstan, and in 1993 she earned her Ph.D. in Philological Sciences from the Kazakh Institute of Linguistics, also in Almaty.
From 1994 to 2005, Dr. Nazarova worked as a Senior Lecturer in the Turkology Department at the Institute of Oriental Studies in Tashkent, where she taught Uyghur, Comparative Lexicology of Turkic Languages, Theoretical Grammar of Turkic Languages, Lexicology of Turkish, Introduction to Linguistics, and Methods for Teaching Turkic Languages.
In 2005, she first came to Indiana University to teach Intermediate Uyghur at the Summer Workshop in Slavic and East European Languages (SWSEEL, now called the Summer Language Workshop) and was subsequently invited to join the faculty at IU's Department of Central Eurasian Studies (CEUS). She regularly teaches four levels of Uyghur during the academic year, as well as the Intensive Uyghur course for IU’s Summer Language Workshop.
As a CEUS faculty member, Dr. Nazarova has collaborated closely with CeLCAR as a Uyghur Language Developer, creating a wide range of language learning materials, including online reading and listening comprehension exercises and multimedia resources for Uyghur learners. In the fall of 2020, she accepted the position of Director of CeLCAR. Since then, she has made it her mission to advance CeLCAR’s goal of creating high-quality teaching materials to promote the teaching and learning of the languages and cultures of Central Asia.
Read more about Dr. Nazarova's educational qualifications and experience here.
Education
PhD, Philological Sciences, Institute of Linguistics, Almaty, Kazakhstan, 1992
MA, Russian Language and Literature, Ivanovo State University, Russia, 1987
BA, Russian Language and Literature, Ivanovo State University, Russia, 1986
Research Interests
Uyghur language and culture; Comparative lexicology of Turkic languages; Problems of etymology; Ethnography; Language teaching methods; Uyghur migration in 1950s and 1960s from Xinjiang to the Soviet Central Asia
Languages
Uyghur, Uzbek, Russian
Publication Highlights
Nazarova, G., & Imyarova, Z. S. (2021). The repatriation policy of the USSR and the peculiarities of Uighurs’ migration from the PRC in the 1950s. Scientific Journals.
Nazarova, G. (2021, June). My mother’s legacy [In Uyghur]. Tőtqulaq balilar Jornili.
Nazarova, G., & Bovingdon, G. (2020). Sinophobic sentiments: Uyghur emigres in the years of the Sino-Soviet rift. https://iaunrc.indiana.edu/news-events/news/gulnisa-research.html
Nazarova, G. (2019). Land of peril, land of promise: Uyghur migration in mid-20th century Central Asia. In Uyghur studies in Kazakhstan and Central Asia. Almaty, Kazakhstan.
Nazarova, G., & Bovingdon, G. (2018). Uyghur migration from China to Soviet Central Asia in the 1950s and 1960s.https://iaunrc.indiana.edu/news-events/news/gulnisa-nazarova-uyghurs-in-central-asia.html
Nazarova, G. (2018). Four short stories [In Uyghur]: My mother’s legacy; At the grave; Yapma; To my daughter. Radio Dostuk, Bishkek.
Nazarova, G. (2016). Uyghur: An intermediate textbook. Georgetown University Press, Washington, DC.
Nazarova, G., & Niyaz, K. (2013). Uyghur: An elementary textbook. Georgetown University Press, Washington, DC.
Nazarova, G. (2015). Teaching Uyghur at Indiana University. Uyghurlargha Nezer, Paris, France. (Published in French and Uyghur)
Nazarova, G. (2015). Ustazimning ejri bar. Uyghur Avazi, Almaty.
Nazarova, G. (2009, November). The holidays I missed [In Uyghur]. Ittipaq, Bishkek.
Nazarova, G. (2009). One of the modern classics of Uyghur studies [Один из современных классиков уйгуроведения]. In Selected works of Gojahmet Sadvakasov. Almaty.
Nazarova, G. (2005). Indo-European elements in Turkic phytonyms (based on Uyghur, Uzbek, Kazakh, and Turkish languages). In Indo-German and Non-Indo-German languages and literary communication. Münster, Germany.
Nazarova, G. (2004). The function of Chinese phytonyms in modern Uyghur. In The cultural, literary and language dealings of Chinese with Central Asia: Now and before. Tashkent.
Nazarova, G. (2003). Lexicology of the Turkish language. Tashkent.
Nazarova, G. (2003). Etymology of some Turkic phytonyms. In Philological science of the new century: Problems and decisions. Tashkent.
Nazarova, G. (2002). Sanskrit elements in modern Turkic languages. In Materials of the international seminar. Tashkent.
Nazarova, G. (2000). Introduction to linguistics. Tashkent.
Nazarova, G. (1997). Chinese elements in modern Uyghur. In Materials of the Conference “Cultural Connections” at the Tashkent State Institute of Oriental Studies. Tashkent.
Editing Credits
Ozcelik, Ö., Niyaz, K., & Gallegos, M. (2019–2020). Uyghur grammar book.
Sadvakasov, G. (2013). Uyghur orthography dictionary (2nd ed.). Almaty, Kazakhstan. [In Uyghur]
Nazarova, G. (Ed.). (2012–2013). Uyghur reading and listening testing items [For the Defense Language Institute, Monterey, CA].
Recognition and Awards
Member of the Alliance of Distinguished and Titled Professors, July 2021
Recognized in Uyghurs: Encyclopedic Dictionary, Almaty, Kazakhstan, 2020.
Featured “Gulnisa Nazarova is the main expert of Uyghur language at Indiana University” by Ablet Kamalov in Akhbarat, Almaty, 2020.
Featured in “Uyghur Language at the Universities in the United States” by Gulnar Eziz on Radio Free Asia News, 20129
Recognized in "Уйгурские женщины-ученые" (Uyghur Women Scholars), pp. 144-5, Almaty, 2015.
Trustees Teaching Award, At-Large NTT Faculty competition, 2015.
Featured in “The Voices of Tengritagh: An Uyghur Textbook for English speakers,” by Ablet Kamalov in Asia Today, № 18 (0190), 2014.
Featured in "Täŋritağdin sada" by Ablet Kamalovin in The Voice of Uyghurs, 2014.
Featured in "Gulnisa Nazarova", pp. 125-7, by Willodine Hopkins in Solomon's Legacy, 2008.