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Dr. Michael Denison

Dr. Michael Denison is presently Lecturer in Comparative Politics in the School of Politics and International Studies at the University of Leeds, UK. His doctoral thesis on the post-Soviet politics of Turkmenistan was the first major study of the Niyazov leader cult, and will be published in 2008 by Routledge (London). Dr. Denison graduated from Keble College, Oxford University in Modern History, where he was the Royal Historical Society’s Frampton Prize scholar. He holds an MA in European Security Studies at the University of Leeds, and completed his PhD. at the same university in 2006. He has published extensively on Central Asian politics and society. Recent publications and conference papers include:  Bibliography of Turkmenistan (Open Society Institute: New York), April 2005; Rising Frustration in Uzbekistan, The World Today (RIIA, London), June 2004; Religion in Post-Soviet Central Asia, Frontier (Oxford), Winter 2003-4; Identity Politics in Central Asia, Asian Affairs (London), Vol. XXXIV (1), March 2003; Central Asia after the Taliban: New Risks, New Opportunities, Asian Affairs (London), Vol. XXXIII (1), February 2002; Strategies of Compliance with, and Resistance to, the Leadership Cult in contemporary Turkmenistan (October 2003), Fourth Annual Central Eurasian Studies Society Conference at Harvard University, USA; Neopatrimonialism in Central Asia: Are There Lessons from Africa? (April 2002), Ninth Annual American Central Eurasian Studies Conference at Indiana University, USA.

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