Dr. Sabina Insebayeva is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Science and International Relations at Nazarbayev University (Kazakhstan). She is concurrently a research associate at the Asia Research Institute (ARI) at the National University of Singapore (NUS), where she also held a postdoctoral fellowship (Identities Cluster).

Prior positions include an assistant professorship at the University of Tsukuba (Japan), as well as research and visiting fellowships at the George Washington University (USA), University of Zurich (Switzerland), the Leibniz Institute for Educational Media, Georg Eckert Institute (Germany), the University of Tokyo (Japan), Waseda University (Japan), and the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (Norway).

Dr. Insebayeva studies issues related to identity politics, power relations and security in Central Asia and East Asia, and is particularly interested in approaches rooted in social theory and historical sociology. She has published peer-reviewed articles in prestigious (Q1) journals such as The Pacific Review, Europe-Asia Studies, Journal of Eurasian Studies, Nationalities Papers, among others. 

Kazakhstan's Foreign Policy, Central Asian Politics, International Relations of Eurasia, Inter-Asia Engagements, and East Asian Politics.