Diana T. Kudaibergen

Diana T. Kudaibergen is a political sociologist and a new lecturer in Central Asian Politics and Society at UCL SSEES. She previously taught sociology at the University of Cambridge and International University in Turkmenistan. She’s the author of Rewriting the Nation in Modern Kazakh Literature (2017), Toward Nationalizing Regimes (2020), The Kazakh Spring (2024), and a forthcoming volume called What Does it Mean to Be Kazakhstani? to be published by Hurst London in the coming months. Kudaibergen is the author of numerous articles about nation-building and regime dynamics in Eurasia.