Christopher Kaplonski

Research Associate at the Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit. He completed his Ph.D. in Anthropology at Rutgers University in the US.
His dissertation research was on national identity and understandings of history in light of the democratic revolution in Mongolia. He has carried out research in Mongolia since the early 1990s and has spent several years teaching at the National University of Mongolia.
His research interests examine issues pertaining to identity, nationalism, and the democratic revolution in Mongolia, notions of ‘political tradition’ and the socialist legacy of political repression. His current research projects also include concepts of democracy and law in post-socialist Mongolia.
His most recent publication is the book Truth, history and politics in Mongolia: the memory of heroes, which was published in 2004 by RoutledgeCurzon. His other publications on Mongolian politics broach issues pertaining to identity, nationalism, and the democratic revolution, notions of ‘political tradition’ and, most recently, the socialist legacy of political repression. He is the Book Review Editor for Inner Asia and is on the editorial board of the Mongolian Journal of Anthropology, Archaeology and Ethnology.
He maintains a website dealing with Mongolia and anthropology.