Ph.D. candidate

Areas of research
Central Asia, Kazakhstan, sociology of politics and government, state and bureaucracy, international organizations

Contact
CORE
Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy
Beim Schlump 83
20144 Hamburg
Phone: (+49) 40-866077-42

Curriculum vitae
Sebastian Schiek studied political science at the Freie Universität Berlin where he recieved his Diplom degree in 2005. In 2007 and 2008 he conducted field research in Kazakhstan and was a visiting lecturer at the German Kazakh University in Almaty. He received a one-year scholarship from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and now holds a scholarship from the Friedrich Ebert Foundation. He is a member of the Central Eurasia Studies Society (CESS), the German Association for East European Studies and the German Kazakh Society.

Current project
Politics and Bureaucracy in Kazakhstan.

Languages
German, English, Russian, French