Education: BSc, University of Paris, Sorbonne; MSc, London School of Economics; PhD, London School of Economics

Career: Deniz Kandiyoti is Reader in Development Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London. She has taught and researched in universities in Turkey, the USA and the UK. Her research interests include comparative perspectives on gender, household formation and development, and Islam and state policies in the Middle East. More recently she has been working in the Central Asian republics of the former USSR on post-Soviet transitions with special reference to land rights and agrarian reform. She has done consultancy work for UNDP, ILO, UNESCO, OSCE, DFID and UNIFEM. She was also a British Council consultant for a World Bank project. Her research interests include agrarian reform, decollectivization, poverty assessment, rural livelihoods and gender in Central Asia, gender and development in the Middle East, and the politics of gender and reconstruction in Afghanistan. She is a member of the London Middle East Institute and the Centre of Contemporary Central Asia and the Caucasus. Deniz Kandiyoti is Editor of the journal Central Asian Survey (see url below).

Publications include: Fragments of Culture: The Everyday of Modern Turkey (co-editor) 2002; numerous book chapters and articles in professional journals

Contact details: Address: Central Asian Survey, School of Oriental and African Studies, Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London, WC1H 0XG, England; Tel: +44 (0)20 7898-4488; Fax: +44 (0)20 7436-3844; Email: dk1@soas.ac.uk ; Email: casurvey@soas.ac.uk ; Website: http://www.soas.ac.uk/ ; Website: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/02634937.asp/ .