Hamilton Lugar School
of Global and International Studies

Phone:

(812) 855-0469

Email:

gkara@indiana.edu

Department:

Central Eurasian Studies

Campus:

IU Bloomington

Kara’s expertise is in the areas of Mogol and Inner Asian studies, languages, and cultures, including Old Turkic, Tibetan, Manchu, Evenki, Khitan and Altaic philology, the history of writing systems, Altaic linguistics, and Mongol literature and folklore.