Dr. Chorshanbe Goibnazarov is an Assistant Professor and Research Fellow at the UCA’s School of Arts and Sciences and the Graduate School of Development. He teaches Cultural Landscapes at the Naryn and Khorog Campuses. He holds a Ph.D. in Central Asian Studies from the Institute of Asian and African Studies at the Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany, and a Master of Arts in Muslim Cultures from the Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilizations at the Aga Khan University in London, UK. Goibnazarov was on the Fulbright Visiting Scholar fellowship for the 2019-2020 academic year at the Music Department of Harvard University.

PhD research (2010−2017):

Qașā’id-khānī a musical expression of social, cultural and religious identity in Badakhshan

• First supervisor: Prof. Dr. Ingeborg Baldauf
• Second supervisor: Prof. Dr. Margrit Pernau