Ildikó Bellér-Hann studied in Budapest, Cambridge, and Berlin. She has worked as a researcher at various British and German universities and is currently Associate Professor at the University of Copenhagen. Her recent publications include Community Matters in Xinjiang 1880-1949: Towards A Historical Anthropology of the Uyghur (2008), and “The Mobilisation of Tradition: Localism and Identity among the Uyghur of Xinjiang” in Ethnicity, Authority, and Power in Central Asia: New Games Great and Small (2011).