Gerald Mako is currently pursuing a PhD at Cambridge University in England. His research explores the architecture of power among Eurasian nomads with a particular focus on how processes of religious conversion to Islam, Judaism, and Christianity served as mechanisms for consolidating political authority, forging empires, and shaping identities in Central Asia and the Caucasus. He is also deeply engaged with the 19th- and 20th-century historiography of the Jewish Khazars, examining the construction and contestation of historical narratives of power.
