Kyle Marquardt is a PhD student in the Department of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He received an MA in Regional Studies: Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia from Harvard University, and a BA in German from Grinnell College. He has conducted field research on language politics in Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, the Russian Federation, and Turkmenistan. His research interests include ethnic relations, language policy, and identity politics.
Authors articles:
Nation-Building and Language Policy in post-Soviet Azerbaijan
Social-scientific literature has long accepted the fact that a national language can play an essential role in nation-building. This role can be positive in terms of state-building: revitalizing a formerly oppressed national language can help a state find a new, independent identity. However, the role can also be divisive...
