2009 Reports

Building OASIES Across Inner Eurasia

Byler, Darren

In 2007, when the founders of the Organization for the Advancement of Studies of Inner Eurasian Societies (OASIES) first began discussing the idea of formalizing Inner Eurasian scholarship at Columbia University, they did not know what they were getting into. Despite their varied interests in Turkish, Hindi and Chinese, graduate students Owen Miller, Tony Shin, Darren Byler and others were driven to build a new community.