Dr. Mélanie Sadozaï

Academic Positions

since February 2024	Research Associate at the Department for Interdisciplinary and Multiscalar Area Studies (DIMAS), University of Regensburg
2022-2023	Post-Doctoral Research Scholar, Institute for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies (IERES), Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University
2023	George F. Kennan Fellow, Kennan Institute, Wilson Center

Academic Education

2022	Ph.D. in Political Science and International Relations, Centre de Recherche Europes-Eurasie (CREE), Institut national des Langues et Civilisations orientales (INALCO)
2018-2022	Doctoral Student at Centre de Recherche Europes-Eurasie (CREE), Institut national des Langues et Civilisations orientales (INALCO)
2018	M.A. in War Studies «Expertise des conflits armés» (summa cum laude, valedictorian), Institut des Etudes sur la Guerre et la Paix, Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne
2017-2018	Master's Studies in War Studies «Expertise des conflits armés», Institut des Etudes sur la Guerre et la Paix, Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne
2016	M.A. in International Relations; M.A. in European Studies (both magna cum laude), Institut Pierre Renouvin, Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne
2013-2016	Master's Studies in International Relations and European Studies, Institut Pierre Renouvin, Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne
2013	B.A. in Persian Language and Civilization (magna cum laude), Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales (INALCO)
2010-2013	Bachelor's Studies of Persian Language and Civilization at Institut national des Langues et Civilisations orientales (INALCO)

Research Interests

Selected Publications (Peer Reviewed)

"L’image pour déconstruire l’imaginaire à la frontière entre le Tadjikistan et l’Afghanistan" [Image to deconstruct imaginaries at the border between Tajikistan and Afghanistan], EchoGéo 63 (2023).
(with Suzy Blondin) “More Remote Yet More Connected? Physical Accessibility and New International Contacts in Tajikistan’s Pamirs Since 1991”, Problems of Post Communism 70:3 (2022), 290-304.
“The Tajikistani-Afghan Border in Gorno-Badakhshan: Resources of a War- Torn Neighborhood”, Journal of Borderlands Studies 38:3 (2021), 461-485.
“Interview with Zalmaï, Conducted in Paris, 1 February 2021 (FR)”, Journal of Power Institutions in Post-Soviet Societies [Online], 33 (2021).

Chapters in Edited Volumes

“Being Afghani, French and not Soviet along the border between Tajikistan and Afghanistan” in Jasmin Dall’Agnola et Aijan Sharshenova (Eds.), Researching Central Asia: Navigating Positionality in the Field (Berlin: Springer, 2023)
“Enquêter en milieu frontalier isolé. Le terrain ethnographique dans le Haut- Badakhchan au Tadjikistan” [Investigation in a remote borderland environment. Ethnographic fieldwork in Tajikistan’s Gorno-Badakhshan] in Christelle Calmels, Léonard Colomba-Petteng, Emmanuel Dreyfus et Adrien Estève (Eds.) L’enquête en terrain “sensible”. Bricolages méthodologiques et enjeux des recherches sur l’international [Investigating on “sensitive” fieldwork. Methodological tinkering and challenges in international research] (Paris: Presses Universitaires du Septentrion, 2024)
“Le Traité de gouvernement” [The Treaty of governement] in Delphine Allès et al. (Eds.), Approches extra-occidentales de la paix et de la sécurité: une anthologie commentée [Extra-Western Approaches to Peace and Security: An Annoted Anthology], (Paris: CNRS Editions, 2023)

Other publications

Summer Semester 2024

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