Director, Institute of History, Archaeology, and Ethnography, National Academy of Sciences of the Kyrgyz Republic

Corresponding member of the National Academy of Sciences of the Kyrgyz Republic (2000), professor in ethnography and history, Honored Scholar of the Kyrgyz Republic (2020), recipient of the State Award of the Kyrgyz Republic for Achievements in Sciences and Technology (2002). Head of Department of Ethnic and Religious Policies at the Administration of the President of the Kyrgyz Republic, in 2010–2011. Chair of History Department at the Arabaev Kyrgyz State University in 2005–2006, and Rector in 2001–2005. Director of the Institute of Kyrgyz Studies in 1994–1997, and Dean of Faculty of History in 1992–1993 at Kyrgyz National University. Chair of Department of archaeology and ethnography, Kyrgyz State University, in 1984–1991. Research scholar at the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Russian Academy of Sciences, in 1991–1992. Author of over 300 academic publications including 15 monographs and 10 university textbooks.