Dr Sultonbek Aksakolov
Dr Sultonbek Aksakolov works as an Assistant Professor of History at the School of Arts and Sciences of the University of Central Asia (UCA) functioning in Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Kazakhstan.
He teaches courses on the History of Central Asia, Sociology and Ethics for the undergraduate students. He has also served as the Chair of the Department of Social Sciences and Humanities at UCA. His research focuses on the history of Islam in Soviet Badakhshan, intellectual, history, sacred sites and natural and historical heritages in Tajikistan and larger Central Asia. Sultonbek has published articles on the history of the Ismailis, Islamic education, and development initiatives in Central Asia. In the past he has worked as a research fellow at the Institute of Ismaili Studies (London, UK) and as an analyst at the Silk Road Studies at Uppsala University in Sweden.
Sultonbek has received his MPhil in Modern Societies and Global Transformations from the University of Cambridge (UK) in 2002 and completed his PhD in History from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), the University of London in 2014. He has a BA degree in Tajik Philology and a degree in the Graduate Program in Islamic Studies and Humanities at the Institute of Ismaili Studies, UK. Dr Aksakolov has worked as a consultant, researcher, editor, and translator for several international organizations, as an examiner for International Baccalaureate, and as an Assessor for Chevening UK Government’s global scholarship program.
