food history and foodways; ethnographic knowledge production; soviet nationality policy; food and national identity.

Kazakhstan; post-Soviet countries.

Aliya Bolatkhan is a doctoral researcher in the project "Dealing with Institutional Volatility: Food Production, Processing, and Trade in South-Eastern Qazaqstan," led by Prof. Dr. Peter Finke. For over a decade since earning her MA, Aliya has been working in Qazaqstani historical research institutions, engaging in various long-term research projects that integrate published sources, archival research, and fieldwork. Her research focuses on the history of food and foodways in Soviet Qazaqstan, state policies, ethnographic scholarship, and representations of ethnic food cultures (Qazaqs, Dungans, and Cossacks).