Project Team

Principal Investigator

Dr.  Edward J. Lazzerini

Director, Sinor Research Institute for Inner Asian Studies

Professor, Department of Central Eurasian Studies

Indiana University—Bloomington

Project Coders

Dr. Rafilya Gimazova

Research Associate

Marjani Institute of History

Tatarstan Academy of Sciences

Russian Federation 

Dr. Elmira Salakhova

Research Associate

Marjani Institute of History

Tatarstan Academy of Sciences

Russian Federation

Dr. Rashid Kadyrov

Research Associate

Institute for the Tatar Encyclopedia

Kazan, Tatarstan

Russian Federation

Technical Staff

Ilnar Salimzianov [Machine Translation]

Kazan, Tatarstan

Russian Federation

David Ernst [Web Developer & Data Analyst]

Internet-Minded Design & Development (IMDD)

Bloomington, Indiana

Vincent Malic [Database Creator & Management]

School of Informatics

Indiana University—Bloomington

Consultants

Dr. George Alter [Network Analyst]

Research Professor, ICPSR

Professor of History

University of Michigan

Dr. Barbara A. Anderson [Demographic Consultant]

Department of Sociology

Research Professor, Population Studies Center

University of Michigan—Ann Arbor

Dr. Boris Mironov [Demographic Consultant]

Professor History

Russian Academy of Sciences

St. Petersburg

Russian Federation

Jonathan North Washington [Technical/Linguistic Consultant]

Assistant Professor

Department of Linguistics

Swarthmore College 

Dr. Leyla Almazova [Cultural Consultant]

Institute for Oriental Studies

Kazan Federal University

Kazan, Tatarstan

Russian Federation

Dr. Rozaliya Garipova [Historical/Cultural Consultant]

Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow

Department of Religious Studies

University of Pennsylvania

Dr. Paul Werth [Historical/Cultural Consultant]

Professor of History

University of Nevada