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Talant Mawkanuli is an Associate Teaching Professor in Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures at the University of Washington, where he also serves as the Director of the Turkic Central Eurasian Studies Program. He holds a PhD from Indiana University, Bloomington, obtained in 1999. Mawkanuli has an extensive background as a linguist focusing on Turkic sociocultural linguistics, with significant emphasis on language endangerment and minoritized languages. His work explores the languages of Central Eurasia, particularly in China, and aims to set social and cultural contexts for study. His research is broadly interdisciplinary, engaging with ethnolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, and the anthropology of Islam. Mawkanuli conducts fieldwork in the region and teaches both graduate and undergraduate courses related to Turkic languages and the societies and cultures of Central Eurasia and China. He is currently involved in projects documenting and describing the Jungar Tuvan language and analyzing Chaghatay archival manuscripts to shed light on Qazaq language society during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
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