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I hold a doctorate degree with major specializations in public finance and public management and a doctorate minor in statistical science from Indiana University. My primary research, teaching, and consulting interests are at the juncture of public sector capital financing, fiscal policy, organizational management, and regional and local governance. 

I co-authored the Research Handbook of City and Municipal Finance (Edward Elgar 2023), Information Resolution and Subnational Capital Finance (Oxford University Press 2021), and State and Local Financial Instruments: Policy Changes and Management, 2nd Ed. (Edward Elgar 2021). In my work, it is not uncommon to assess the impact of financial factors on organizational, group, and individual outcomes, as well as the impact of organizational, group, and individual factors on financial outcomes in the public sector. In addition to the United States, I consulted and conducted research on these topics (and occasionally engaged in capacity building and training programs) in Eastern Europe & the Caucasus, Northern & Central Asia, and East Asia/Australia.

My research utilizes a wide range of analytical methods--from simplest univariate solutions to multivariate frequentist and Bayesian estimation approaches, from cross-sectional to panel to multilevel methods, from structural equation modeling to computational text analysis. This work has been published in journals such as the American Review of Public Administration; Asia-Pacific Journal of Public Administration; Governance; International Public Management Journal; Journal of Development Studies; Journal of Public Administration Research & Theory; Journal of Public Policy; Municipal Finance Journal; National Tax Journal; Public Administration; Public Administration & Development; Public Administration Review; Public Management Review; Public Finance Review; Public Budgeting & Finance; Review of Public Personnel Administration; Urban Geography; and Urban Studies. 

I taught undergraduate and graduate courses at several universities:

Comparative politics and statistics (2002-2006) at the American University in Central Asia. 

Financial management, public management, and statistics (2007-2012) at Indiana University. 

Public finance, public policy, and statistics (2012-2014) at the University of South Carolina.

Public financial administration, statistical analysis, graduate seminars in public budgeting, debt management, financial management of public sector organizations, and metropolitan fiscal problems (2014-2019) at the University of Georgia.

Courses that focus on public sector economic analysis, public financial administration, budgeting and debt finance, regional and urban fiscal policy, social impact finance and public financial innovations (2019-2023) at the Pennsylvania State University. 

Since the Autumn semester of 2023, I am at the O'Neill School of Public & Environmental Affairs, Indiana University. I teach master's and doctorate level courses on fiscal policy, debt policy, public sector accounting at international, national, and subnational levels.  

Before my doctorate studies, I managed and consulted on data collection and survey research projects (e.g., the World Values Survey (WVS) in the Kırgız Republic). I also served as the deputy director for the Organization for Security & Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Academy in Bishkek and worked as a media monitoring analyst (quantitative coding of print, TV, and radio content) as part of the OSCE's election observation teams during the parliamentary elections (2000 & 2005) in the Kırgız Republic. 

I am a native of the Kırgız Republic (Jarkımbaevo, Isık Köl), and in addition to English, I speak Kırgız and Russian languages fluently. In my free time, I enjoy studying the histories and literatures of Persian and Turkic peoples of Central Asia. I have intermediate reading, listening, and basic conversational proficiency in Kazakh, Turkish, and Uzbek languages, which I'd like to develop further.