In coordination with AUCA Administration in 2011-2012 CASI has provided research grants for the following AUCA faculty on a competitive base:
Mukaram Toktogulova and Ruslan Rakhimov, Tablighi Movement in the Context of Reislamization in Kyrgyzstan: Local Practices and Contested Discourses
Jamby Dzhusubalieva and Valeri Hardin, Kyrgyz in China: History, Philosophy and Oral Tradition
Emil Nasritdinov, Migrants in Cities or Cities of Migrants: Frontiers of Central Asian Migration in Russia