Dr. Galina Gorborukova is the Chair and an Associate Professor in the Sociology department at the American University of Central Asia. She is also an Associate Professor in the Master of Arts in Talent Management and Human Potential Development in Organizations Program (TALENT). She holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from Kyrgyz State National University (2005, Kyrgyzstan), a postgraduate degree in Sociology from Bishkek Humanitarian University (1996, Kyrgyzstan), and a specialized degree in History from Kyrgyz State National University (1991, Kyrgyzstan).
Dr. Gorborukova joined AUCA in 2000 and became the Head of the Sociology department in 2010. In 2013, she became the Head of the General Education Program before returning to oversee the Sociology department in 2016. She was a Visiting Professor in the Department of Social Psychology at the University of Montreal (2012, Canada). She is a member of the Canadian Psychological Association (from 2017), the International Sociological Association (from 2013), and the Kyrgyzstan Sociological Association (from 2006).
- Erasmus+ Capacity Building in Higher Education project to establish Master Programs in Human Resources Management and Talent Development in Central Asia, 2018-2020
- Erasmus + Credit Mobility Grant between AUCA and Magdeburg University within the Erasmus+ program, 2017-2023
- DAAD Dialogues on Youth Friendly Gender, Diversity-Responsive Sexual and Reproductive Health Education Grant, German-Kyrgyz Interdisciplinary Project for Capacity Building in Applied Research, January 2019 – December 2019
- CASI/USAID Research Grant for the AUCA and University de Montréal joint project: The Role of Historical Events in People’s Personal and Collective Well-being: A Comparative Research between Kyrgyzstan and Québec, June 2015 - March 2016
- Research Grant “Why do people not vote? A study of social factors influencing voting behavior of Bishkek and Osh residents” USAID Defeat TB project, February 2017 – November 2017
- Research Grant and Scholarship Sociological Research “Study of Ethnical Identity Russian in Bishkek,” Higher Education Support Program, Open Society Institute, Budapest, Hungary, August 2009 - June 2011
- American University of Central Asia Grant to develop the modern guide Social Stratification and Inequality, Fall 2007.
- Minorities - everyday ethnicity and cultural interaction of ethnic groups
- Political research – participation or non-participation of the population in the voting
- Social change, memory, and individual and collective trauma
- Stratification analysis – deprivation studies, poverty, survival strategies, and migrational study
- Schrader Heiko, Gorborukova Galina, Mamatova Mahinur. Pedagogical and intercultural facets in an international students’ research training program in times of pandemic: A Case Study on the “Intersections” of Gender, Family, and Society in Kyrgyzstan. International Dialogues on Education Journal, Vol. 9 No. 1 (2022).
- Cárdenas, D., de la Sablonnière, R., Gorborukova, G. L., Mageau, G. A., Amiot, C. E., & Sadykova, N. (2019) Participation in a new cultural group and patterns of identification in a globalized world: The moderating role of similarity. Self and Identity
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15298868.2018.1523222
- Mehrigiul Ablezova, Galina Gorborukova, Shirin Tumenbaeva, (2018) Why Don’t People Vote? A survey study of voting behavior and its determinants in Bishkek and Osh cities of Kyrgyzstan. Вестник науки и образования № 14 (50).
- Gorborukova, L. G., & de la Sablonnière, R. (2017) Kyrgyz identity and historical narrative: Does knowing one’s past help in making sense of the present in the context of dramatic social change? In the book Reimagining Civic Society. Collection of articles on society in a time of change. Bishkek.
- R. de la Sablonnière, C. Amiot, D. Cárdenas, N.l Sadykova, Galina L. Gorborukova, M. Huberdeau, (2016) Testing the subtractive pattern of cultural identification. European Journal of Social Psychology.
- Eckhard Dittrich, Heiko Schrader, Galina Gorborukova, (2014) When Salary is not Enough …Private Households in Central Asia – Germany, book, 365 p.
- Мирошниченко И., Горборукова Г. (2014) Технологии отбора и структурирования учебной информации с учетом образовательных потребностей учащихся. Вестник Бишкекского Гуманитарного Университета, Бишкек.
- Consequences of Kyrgyzstan’s Entrance in Custom Union. The result of Social Research. Saint-Petersburg, 2013. Co-authorship.
- V. Lakhonin, G. Gorborukova, D. Dergousoff (2013). Models of Collaboration: Comparative analysis of Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan rural societies. https://www.lap-publishing.com/catalog/details/store/gb/book/978-3-659-38557-5/models-of-collaboration?search=lakhonin.
- G.Ibraeva, G.Gorborukova, M.Ablezova (2012) Impact Assessment Report – Poverty Reduction Program and identifying the contribution of ecosystem’s goods and services into a dynamic of the wellbeing of beneficiaries households of PRSP UNDP”. UNDP PEI-PRSP.
- Domashov I., Korotenko V., Gorborukova G., Ablezova M. (2011) Assessment of access to water, sanitation and hygiene knowledge, attitude and practice in schools and hospitals of Kyrgyzstan. Bishkek. UNICEF.
- De la Sablonnière, R., Amiot, C. E., Sadykova, N., Cardenas, D., & Gorborukova, G. L. (accepted with revisions, 2011). Identity integration challenges in Kyrgyzstan: A subtractive process. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology.
- Gorborukova, G. (2010). Sociology of Social Stratification and the System of Inequality. Tutorial for students. Bishkek. Kyrgyzstan.
- Bagdasarova, N., Gorborukova, G., Moldosheva A. (2009). Kyrgyz Republic: country gender assessment in the sphere of politics 2008, 29-39.
- Gorborukova, G., (2009). The levels of civil and ethnic identities in contemporary Bishkek. Academic Review, 9, 51-58.
Gorborukova, G. (2007). Study on the Ethnic Identity through a Prism of Civilization Approach. Congress on Turkic Civilization Globalization and Turkic Civilization. Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.
- Abulgazieva, A., Gorborukova, G., Bogatyrev, V., Kurbanov, Z. (2007) History and identity of the Kyrgyz Republic, (pp. 129 -234). Bishkek.
- Gorborukova, G. (2007). Russian strata in Bishkek: stratification approach. Society and Policy in Central Asia: history and contemporary, 11–13, 68-81. Poland.
- Gorborukova, G. (2005) Interrelationship between of ethnic establishments and migration behavior of Bishkek Russians (according to the data of sociological research). Russian language in peoples the cooperation in CIS countries, 185 – 199.Bishkek.
- Gorborukova, G. (2004). Children poverty, results of sociological research. Academic Review, 6, 48 – 59.
- Gorborukova, G. (2003) Russian in Kyrgyzstan: problems and prospects. Transformations and Interventions. Critical perspectives on economy and culture in post-socialist societies. Social mobility in Kyrgyzstan. International Sociology Conference. Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.
- Gorborukova, G. (2003) Russian strata in Kyrgyzstan: the historical - sociological aspect. Bishkek.
- Gorborukova, G., Isaev K. (1998) Russian in Kyrgyzstan. Sociological Research
- Classical Social Theory
- General Sociology
- Identity and Differences
- Internship I
- Research Methods in Talent Management
- Social Distance
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