She is currently working on a book on village and customary governance in rural Afghanistan for which she conducted qualitative interviews and focus groups in more than 30 Afghan villages across six provinces. In the policy world, she has managed U.S. Government democracy assistance for USAID in Uzbekistan and drafted legislative materials for the new Afghan Parliament as a consultant for the UNDP in Kabul. She has lived for more than seven years in various parts of Central Eurasia, primarily in Uzbekistan and Afghanistan. Jennifer was a research fellow at the Institute for Legal Studies at the University of Wisconsin - Madison. Dr. Murtazashvili holds an Ph.D. in Political Science and an M.A. in Agricultural and Applied Economics from the University of Wisconsin - Madison.