Dina Sharipova

Position: Associate Professor and Vice Dean for Research

Education Background:

Ph.D. in Political Science, Indiana University (USA)

Research Areas

Nation and state-building, security issues, formal and informal institutions, civil society, social capital, and well-being in Central Asia.

Research Output 

Contact information

Dina Sharipova
Associate Professor and Vice Dean for Research

Graduate School of Public Policy
Nazarbayev University
53 Kabanbay batyr Avenue
Astana, Kazakhstan 010000
Telephone: +7 7172 69 45 81
Email: dina.sharipova@nu.edu.kz

Dr. Sharipova received her Ph.D. in Political Science from Indiana University in 2013. From 2013 to 2018 she worked at KIMEP University and served as Research Director of the College of Social Sciences. She was also a member of the Board of the European Society for Central Asian Studies from 2017 to 2019. 

Dr. Sharipova joined GSPP in 2018 as Assistant Professor. Her research interests include nation and state-building, security issues, formal and informal institutions, civil society, social capital, and well-being in Central Asia. Currently, Dr. Sharipova is a member of the Editorial Board of Central Asian Survey and is an incoming President of the Central Eurasian Studies Society (CESS).

Her recent publications include the edited volume “Post-colonial Approaches in Kazakhstan and Beyond: Politics, Culture, and Literature” published with Palgrave MacMillan in 2024 and the book “State-building in Kazakhstan: Continuity and Transformation of Informal Institutions” published by Lexington Books in 2018. She also has a number of publications in scholarly journals such as Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, Europe-Asia Studies Journal, Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, Central Asian Survey, Nationalities Paper, and others.  

PUBLICATIONS

Book

  1. Sharipova, D., Bissenova, A., & Burkhanov, A. eds. (2024). Post-Colonial Approaches in Kazakhstan and Beyond: Politics, Culture, and Literature. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore.
  2. Sharipova Dina, “State-building in Kazakhstan: Continuity and Transformation of Informal Institutions” Maryland: Rowan and Littlefield, Lexington Books Publishers, 2018.

Journal Articles

  1. Sharipova, D., & Kudebayeva, A. (2023). Changing Well-Being in Central Asia: Evidence from Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. Journal of Happiness Studies, 24(3), 1233-1260.
  2. Demircioglu, M. A., & Sharipova, D. (2023). Does Public Sector Employment Matter for Subjective Well-being?: The Case of Kazakhstan. International Journal of Public Administration, 1-16.
  3. Kudebayeva, A., Sharipova, A., & Sharipova, D. (2022). Social Capital and Subjective Well-Being in Central Asia. Europe-Asia Studies, 74(1), 101-124.
  4. Sharipova, D., & Beissembayev, S. (2021). Causes of Violent Extremism in Central Asia: The Case of Kazakhstan. Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, 1-21.
  5. Sharipova, D. (2020). Perceptions of national identity in Kazakhstan: Pride, language, and religion. The Muslim World, 110(1), 89-106.
  6. Sharipova, D. (2020). State Reforms and Informal Payments in Secondary Education of Kazakhstan. Central Asian Affairs, 7(2), 175-195.
  7. Sharipova, D. (2019). The decolonization of the environment in Kazakhstan: The Novel final respects by Abdi-Jamil Nurpeisov. Nationalities Papers, 47(2), 296-309.
  8. Sharipova, D., Burkhanov, A., & Alpeissova, A. (2017). The determinants of civic and ethnic nationalisms in Kazakhstan: Evidence from the grass-roots level. Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, 23(2), 203-226.
  9. Sharipova, D. (2015). Who gets what, when and how? Housing and informal institutions in the Soviet Union and post-Soviet Kazakhstan. Central Asian Affairs, 2(2), 140-167.

Book Chapters 

  1. Sharipova, D., & Burkhanov, A. (2022). Nation-building in Central Asia: Policy and discourse in Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Central Asia (pp. 101-114). Routledge.
  2. Arynov, Z., & Sharipova, D. (2020). Russland in Zentralasien. In Die politischen Systeme Zentralasiens (pp. 223-241). Springer VS, Wiesbaden.
  3. Dina Sharipova (2019), Youth and Civic National Identity in (ed.) M. Laruelle, The Nazarbayev Generation: Youth in Kazakhstan, Lanham: Lexington Books, pp.69-88.
  4. Dina Sharipova “Youth Organizations and State–Society Relations in Kazakhstan: The Durability of the Leninist Legacy” (2019) in ed. Jean Francois Caron, Kazakhstan and the Soviet Legacy: Between Continuity and Rupture, Singapore: Palgrave MacMillan, pp. 139-154.

 Working Papers 

  1. Dina Sharipova and Serik Beimenbetov, “Youth in Kazakhstan: Assessing their Values, Expectations, and Aspirations”, .FES, Almaty, 2021
  2. Dina Sharipova and Serik Beissembayev, “The Social Impact of the COVID-19 in Kazakhstan: An overview of Standards of Living and Access to Welfare Services”, IFEAC, 2020.
  3. Changes in Integration Policy in Foreign Countries, Report for the National Assembly of People of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Center on Interethnic Studies, Astana, 2019.
  4. Dina Sharipova and Serik Beimenbetov, “Co-existence of Ethnic Groups in Kazakhstan,” the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, 2017, Almaty.
  5. Expert Interview Какой национализм возьмет верх в Казахстане – этнический или гражданский?, https://camonitor.kz/35899-kakoy-nacionalizm-vozmet-verh-v-kazahstane-etnicheskiy-ili-grazhdanskiy.html