Dr. Mélanie Sadoza?

Akademische Postionen

Akademische Ausbildung

Forschungsinteressen

• Grenzregionen, u.a.?Tadschikistan und Afghanistan
• Geschichte und Gegenwart Zentralasiens und Afghanistans
• Geographie und Ethnographie des Pamirgebirges
• Politik in Zentralasien
• Konnektivit?t in Zentralasien
• Geschichte der sowjetischen Besatzung Afghanistans
• Iranische Sprachen (Persisch, Shughni)
• Digitale Diskursanalyse
• Mündliche Geschichte
• Ethnographische Methoden

Laufende Forschungsprojekte

“The borderlands of Central Asia and Afghanistan: maintaining cross-border contacts under the Taliban” (november 2024-november 2025) - Delta on the Move Foundation Small Grant Scheme.

Drittmittel und Forschungsf?rderung

2024: Delta on the Move Foundation?
2023: Wilson Center?
2021: French Institute for Central Asia Studies, IFEAC?
2020: Pierre Leroux Foundation?
2020: Institute of Higher National Defense Studies (IHEDN)?
2020: ?le-de-France region?
2018-2023: CREE & INALCO?
2018-2022: INALCO funded PhD?

Kapitel in Sammelb?nden

“Being Afghani, French and not Soviet along the Border between Tajikistan and Afghanistan.” In: Jasmine Dall’Agnola und Aijan Sharshenova, Herausgeber, Navigating Positionality in Central Asia. Springer, 2023.

“Enquêter en milieu frontalier isolé. Le terrain ethnographique dans le Haut-Badakhchan au Tadjikistan.” In: Christelle Calmels, Léonard Colomba-Petteng, Emmanuel Dreyfus und Adrien Estève, Herausgeber, L’enquête en terrain ‘sensible’: Bricolages méthodologiques et enjeux des recherches sur l’international. Presses Universitaires du Septentrion, 2023.

“Le Traité de gouvernement.” In: Delphine Allès et al., Herausgeber, Approches extra-occidentales de la paix et de la sécurité: une anthologie commentée. CNRS Editions, 2023.

Aufs?tze

?L’image pour déconstruire l’imaginaire à la frontière entre le Tadjikistan et l’Afghanistan“ [Image to deconstruct imaginaries at the border between Tajikistan and Afghanistan]. EchoGéo, vol. 63, 2023.

with Sophie Hohmann. ?Le danger aux frontières? Que disent les terrains entre l'Asie centrale et l'Afghanistan?“ [Danger along borders? What does fieldwork between Central Asia and Afghanistan tell us?]. Esprit, 2023, pp. XI–XXI.

with Suzy Blondin. ?More Remote Yet More Connected? Physical Accessibility and New International Contacts in Tajikistan’s Pamirs Since 1991.“ Problems of Post-Communism, vol. 70, no. 3, 2022, pp. 290–304.

?The Tajikistani-Afghan Border in Gorno-Badakhshan: Resources of a War-Torn Neighborhood.“ Journal of Borderlands Studies, vol. 38, no. 3, 2021, pp. 461–485.

?Interview with Zalma?, Conducted in Paris, 1 February 2021 (FR).“ Journal of Power Institutions in Post-Soviet Societies, no. 22, 2021, [online], http://journals.openedition.org/pipss/6191.

Wissenschaftliche Artikel ohne peer review (Auswahl)

?Opportunities and Frustrations of a Closed Border Regime between Tajikistan and Afghanistan in Badakhshan: Back to Remoteness?“ BorderObs, 2023.

?La frontière entre le Tadjikistan et l'Afghanistan depuis l'été 2021 (2): Le quotidien à la frontière et la situation des réfugiés au Tadjikistan“ [The border between Tajikistan and Afghanistan since the summer of 2021 (2): Everyday life at the border and the situation of refugees in Tajikistan]. Les Nouvelles d'Afghanistan, 2023.

with Suzy Blondin. ?In Tajikistan’s Pamir Mountains, Environmental Hazards Complicate Human Mobility and Connections with Afghanistan.“ The Academic, 2023.

?Asie centrale-Afghanistan : des frontières sous haute surveillance“ [Central Asia-Afghanistan: Borders Under High Surveillance]. The Conversation, 2022.

??Taliban at the Border: A New Regime Neighboring Tajikistan.“ Central Asia Program, CAP Paper no. 267, 2021.

?Die Auswirkungen der Machtübernahme der Taliban in den Grenzgebieten des Pamirs“ [The Impact of the Taliban Takeover in the Pamirs Borderlands]. Zentralasien-Analysen, no. 150, Dec. 2021, pp. 2–6.

?Konflikt na granice: kakie budut posledstvi? dl? vnutrennej i vne?nej politiki Kyrgyzstana i Tad?ikistana?“ [Conflict on the Border: What Will Be the Consequences for Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan’s Domestic and Foreign Policies?]. CABAR Asia, 2021.

Lehre

Winteresmester 2024/25

• 80760MS?Borders in Political Discourse
• 80761MS?Politics and International Relations of Central Asia and Afghanistan: Competing Approaches
• 80791MS?Researching (in) Remote Areas: Preparing, Conducting, and Reflecting on Ethnographic Methods

Sommersemester 2024

• 80740MS?Border Tensions in Europe
• 80741MS?Central Asia inside and out: politics, society and international relations
• 80790MS?When Border Studies Meet Social Sciences and the Humanities

Wissenschaftskommunikation

Interviews
Arte, BBC, France Culture, France 24, Le Figaro, Majlis Podcast, Novastan, Société de géographie

Trainings
Center for Asylum Seekers (Dole, France), Institute of Higher National Defense Studies (France)

Briefings
European Union, Austrian Defense Ministry, U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, U.S. Department of State

Gremienarbeit und akademische Funktionen

Academic responsibilities
2024-present: Cambridge Massoud Conference (CMC), Member of the academic board
2022-present: European Society for Central Asian Studies (ESCAS), Board member
2018-2023: Center for European and Eurasian Research (CREE, INALCO), Board member
2018-2022: Center for European and Eurasian Research (CREE, INALCO), PhD students’ representative
?

Fellowships
2021-present: Central Asia Program, Institute for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies (IERES), George Washington University
Associate scholar
2020-2022: Sigur Center for Asian Studies, George Washington University
Visiting scholar
2019: French Institute for Central Asian Studies (IFEAC), Bishkek (Kyrgyzstan)
Visiting scholar
2022-present: Central Eurasian Studies Society (CESS)
Member

Vortr?ge und Konferenzen

(Auswahl)

Konferenzen und Tagungen
2024 “Zentralasian Trans/Regional” Workshop, Univeristy of Regensburg

2024 “Disruptive Borderlands” Conference, Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER)
Eur-Asian BorderLab Symposium, University of Tallinn

2023 Central Eurasian Studies Society (CESS) Annual Conference, University of Pittsburgh
9th Seminar of the UniGR-Center for Border Studies, Saarland University
Central Asia Security Workshop, George Washington University

2022 Central Eurasian Studies Society (CESS) Summer Conference, Tashkent

2021 Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) Annual Conference, New-Orleans

2020 “Borderlands” Conference, 17th Conference of the Graduate Organization for the Study of Europe and Central Asia (GOSECA), University of Pittsburgh

Forschungsseminare und Workshops
2023 Workshop: “Ethnic Minorities in Border Regions”, ZOiS, Berlin
?
INALCO/Oxford joint seminar “Global International Relations and Area Studies: epistemological and methodological dialogues”

2021 “Ground Truth: Local Views About the Taliban’s Return”, George Washington University [Online], www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpYRc3i2HNw

2018 “La frontière, une ressource territoriale ?” [The border, a territorial resource?], Institut des Frontières et Discontinuités, Artois University, Arras (France)

Summer schools
2019 International Social Science Summer School in Ukraine, “War and Society:
Making and Experiencing War (and Peace) in 19th-21st century Eastern/Central Europe and Eurasia”, Kherson (Ukraine)
?

Kooperationen und Projekte

(with Roman Bike): DIMAS Early Career Research Seminar (ECRS)