Chokan Valikhanov
The Smithsonian Institute, through the Museum of Natural History, supports its research anthropologists through the funding of field research and cultural expeditions. Paul Michael Taylor, one such anthropologist and the Curator of European, Near Eastern, and Asian Enthology, has published a significant amount of research regarding topics throughout Central Asia. While some of his findings have already been digitized, it his goal to have a series of robust online publications for the body of work that is already completed.