18～20世紀のホラズムを中心とする中央ユーラシアのオアシス地域における水利灌漑を研究してきた。とりわけ現地政権やロシア帝国の植民地当局の水利灌漑面における諸政策、およびロシア人企業家たちの灌漑開発計画が現地の定住民＝遊牧民関係に及ぼした影響に関心がある。主著は『中央アジア灌漑史序説』（風響社、2014年）で、第4回地域研究コンソーシアム登竜賞を受賞した。現在は19世紀のユーラシア全体におけるロシアのプレゼンスに関心があり、露清関係史や中央アジアをめぐる英露関係史にも取り組んでいる。

SHIOYA Akifumi, PhD in Literature (University of Tokyo, 2012) and Assistant Professor of Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Tsukuba, conducts research on irrigation and water use in the oases of Central Eurasia, mainly focusing on the Khorezm Oasis from the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries. His specific focus is the irrigation policies of local political power and Imperial Russian colonial authority, and the impact of large-scale irrigation projects initiated by Russian entrepreneurs on local sedentary-nomadic relations. The main results of his research on this topic were integrated in the monograph Irrigation History of Central Asia: The Lawzan Canal and the Rise and Fall of the Khanate of Khiva (Fukyo-sha, 2014), which won the fourth Japan Consortium for Area Studies Award for Budding Scholar in 2014(http://www.jcas.jp/en/consortiumaward/selection.html). His current research interest is the presence of the Russian Empire in Eurasia in the nineteenth century, and he is now engaged in a study of Russo-Chinese and Anglo-Russian relations in Central Asia in the nineteenth century.

Researcher’s Information http://www.trios.tsukuba.ac.jp/en/researcher/0000003151