Dr. Mélanie Sadozaï

Academic Positions

since February 2024	Research Associate at the Department for Interdisciplinary and Multiscalar Area Studies (DIMAS), University of Regensburg
2022-2023	Post-Doctoral Research Scholar, Institute for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies (IERES), Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University
2023	George F. Kennan Fellow, Kennan Institute, Wilson Center

Academic Education

2022	Ph.D. in Political Science and International Relations, Centre de Recherche Europes-Eurasie (CREE), Institut national des Langues et Civilisations orientales (INALCO)
2018-2022	Doctoral Student at Centre de Recherche Europes-Eurasie (CREE), Institut national des Langues et Civilisations orientales (INALCO)
2018	M.A. in War Studies «Expertise des conflits armés» (summa cum laude, valedictorian), Institut des Etudes sur la Guerre et la Paix, Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne
2017-2018	Master's Studies in War Studies «Expertise des conflits armés», Institut des Etudes sur la Guerre et la Paix, Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne
2016	M.A. in International Relations; M.A. in European Studies (both magna cum laude), Institut Pierre Renouvin, Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne
2013-2016	Master's Studies in International Relations and European Studies, Institut Pierre Renouvin, Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne
2013	B.A. in Persian Language and Civilization (magna cum laude), Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales (INALCO)
2010-2013	Bachelor's Studies of Persian Language and Civilization at Institut national des Langues et Civilisations orientales (INALCO)

Research Interests

Peer Reviewed Articles

"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 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 tells us?" , Esprit (2023), 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 70:3 (2022), 290-304.
“The Tajikistani-Afghan Border in Gorno-Badakhshan: Resources of a War- Torn Neighborhood”, Journal of Borderlands Studies 38:3 (2021), 461-485.
“Interview with Zalmaï, Conducted in Paris, 1 February 2021 (FR)”, Journal of Power Institutions in Post-Soviet Societies [Online], 33 (2021).

Chapters in Edited Volumes

“Enquêter en milieu frontalier isolé. Le terrain ethnographique dans le Haut- Badakhchan au Tadjikistan” [Investigation in a remote borderland environment. Ethnographic fieldwork in Tajikistan’s Gorno-Badakhshan] in Christelle Calmels, Léonard Colomba-Petteng, Emmanuel Dreyfus et Adrien Estève (Eds.) L’enquête en terrain “sensible”. Bricolages méthodologiques et enjeux des recherches sur l’international [Investigating on “sensitive” fieldwork. Methodological tinkering and challenges in international research] (Paris: Presses Universitaires du Septentrion, 2024)
“Being Afghani, French and not Soviet along the border between Tajikistan and Afghanistan” in Jasmin Dall’Agnola et Aijan Sharshenova (Eds.), Researching Central Asia: Navigating Positionality in the Field (Berlin: Springer, 2023)
“Le Traité de gouvernement” [The Treaty of governement] in Delphine Allès et al. (Eds.), Approches extra-occidentales de la paix et de la sécurité: une anthologie commentée [Extra-Western Approaches to Peace and Security: An Annoted Anthology], (Paris: CNRS Editions, 2023)

Non refereed scientific articles (selected)

“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 150: December (2021), 2-6
“Konflikt na granice: kakie budut posledstviâ dlâ vnutrennej i vnešnej politiki Kyrgyzstana i Tadžikistana?” [Conflict on the border : what will be the consequences for Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan’s domestic and foreign policies ?], CABAR Asia [Online] (2021)

Policy Briefs

"Cross-border relations between Central Asia and Afghanistan in the Taliban era: Security and connectivity implications for the region", Policy Brief n°89, OSCE Academy Policy Briefs (2023)

Winter Semester 2024/25

Summer Semester 2024

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