2025, September 5
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The debut issue brings together articles in anthropology, history, political science, and sociology. Topics range from narratives of national identity and the legacy of nuclear testing to climate policy, entrepreneurship, and gender studies. The journal highlights an interdisciplinary approach and offers a fresh lens through which young scholars examine today’s most pressing societal challenges.
“It is an experiment for our ambitious undergraduates, who can now experience how it feels to go through the daunting process of being peer reviewed. It is an experiment for us doctoral students on its editorial board, as it offers us an opportunity to assess undergraduate scholarship and assist their authors as editors of our respective fields,” noted Editor-in-Chief and doctoral researcher Mustafa Serdar Karakaya, expressing gratitude to NU faculty and the University Library for their support.
The editorial board consists of nine members: doctoral students Ali Dukayev (anthropology), Kamila Kovyazina (sociology), Alexander Motin (political science and international relations), and Mustafa Serdar Karakaya (history), along with undergraduates Mira Azhibayeva, Rabiga Akhmetova, Ilyas Butayev, Yersultan Kudaibergen, and Adiya Yessengali.
The first issue is available in the NU Repository. Submissions for future editions will be accepted from December through May.
