Dilnoza Duturaeva

Lecturer
University of York

Uzbekistan

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Biography

Dilnoza Duturaeva is a Lecturer in Medieval History at the Department of History and the Centre for Medieval Studies of the University of York, specializing in subjects related to Global History with a focus on the non-European perspective. Her research interests include Imperial China, history of Central Asia, transregional nomadic empires, Silk Road studies, Sino-Islamic relations, diplomacy, trade, and cross-cultural exchange in pre-modern Eurasia. 

She studied History, Arabic and Persian at Tashkent University of Oriental Studies, where she also took her M.A. in 2006. She received her Ph.D. in History from the Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan in 2011. During her doctoral studies, she had research stays at the University of Halle-Wittenberg (2008-2009) and the University of Wisconsin-Madison (2010). After completing her Ph.D. she was a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of History of the Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan from 2011 to 2021. Since 2021, she has been a Senior Research Fellow at the National Center of Archaeology of the Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan on an honorary basis.

Before joining the University of York in 2022, she also held a Gerda Henkel Fellowship at Nanjing University (2012-2013), an Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship at Bonn University (2015-2018), and a German Research Foundation Fellowship at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris (2020-2022).

She is an associate member of the Center for Turkish, Ottoman, Balkan, and Central Asian Studies (CETOBaC-EHESS) and serves as a steering committee member of the Steppe Sisters Network, an international initiative dedicated to connecting women in history, archaeology, and anthropology of Central Asia. 

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