Tsypylma Darieva is a social anthropologist and senior researcher at the Centre for East European and International Studies (ZOiS), where she heads the Migration and Diversity research cluster. Tsypylma Darieva studied Social Anthropology at Freie University Berlin and received her doctorate as well as her habilitation from Humboldt-University zu Berlin. Before coming to ZOiS, she was Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Tsukuba in Japan, and research associate at FSU Jena, at the Institute for European Ethnology at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology (Halle). She is a co-founder of the ZOiS Caucasus Network and a member of the scientific advisory board of the Jena-Cauc project Resilience in the South Caucasus (FSU Jena), and she teaches in the Department of Transregional Central Asian Studies at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
