He completed his PhD at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and works on questions of social mobilization, statehood, and identity politics in ex-Soviet Central Asia and has an abiding interest in qualitative methods and methodologies. He has published with the University of Chicago Press, the University of Washington Press, as well as articles with journals such as Comparative Politics, Europe-Asia Studies, and International Studies Quarterly. He is currently completing a book on the politics of America’s changing image in Central Asia and a study of authoritarianism in Central Asia. Professor Schatz chairs the Political Science Department at the University of Toronto Mississauga.