Kashmir University on Monday appointed Prof. Tareak AhmadRather as the new Director of Center of Central Asian Studies.
Prof. Tareak is well known sociologist of Kashmir who has anexpertise on globalization, migration and Central Asia and has been a visitingfellow of the Department of Sociological Studies, University of Sheffield, UK,said a varsity spokesman.
He has authored three books and more than 32 research papersin international/national journals/books and presented more than 40 papers ininternational/national conferences.
He has completed six research projects and coordinated manyinternational/national conferences.
Prof. Tareak has also guided 18 M. Phil. and Ph.D. scholarsin the field of Sociology and presently nine scholars are pursuing researchunder his supervision.