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Gulniza Taalaibekova is a doctoral student at the Frobenius Institute for Research in Cultural Anthropology. Currently, she is working on her PhD thesis, which is part of the Collaborative Research Center “ResourceCultures” based at Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen. Within the framework of her thesis, she deals with the role and impact of various forms of religious speeches and their medialization and commercialization in bringing about cultural and social changes in Kyrgyzstan. Before embarking on her PhD research in 2017, she did her MA at Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen. She earned her BA in
Anthropology from American University of Central Asia in 2015 in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.

Research interests
Thematic: anthropology of religion, religious speech, anthropology of Islam, resource-cultures
Regional: Kyrgyzstan