Anel Rakhimzhanova is working on her dissertation, preliminarily titled "Moving Matters: trains, environment and performing modernities in Central Asia." Her research delves into the relations between logistics, environmental transformations, and philosophies of movement in historical (at the transits of tsarist and soviet spatial influences) and contemporary Central Asia. She conducts fieldwork mainly in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, moving across state and private archives, cultural productions, and memories on the roads and along their pathways.

Why PS @ NYU? 

Performance Studies fosters interdisciplinary and sensible approach to cultural world-making and knowledge production. It gathers practitioners and thinkers that are committed to paying attention to ephemeral, yet vital, details.