Dilorom Alimova

Dilorom Alimova was born on 25 May 1948 in Tashkent. In 1966 she finished School No. 91 in the city and entered the history faculty of Tashkent State University (now the National University of Uzbekistan). As a student she took part in the YuTAKE archaeological expedition; she graduated in 1971 as a historian-archaeologist, and her graduation thesis was about the fortress wall of Kanka.

She began work in 1971 at the Institute of History of the Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan as a laboratory assistant in the historiography department, then was a postgraduate student (1974–1978), junior researcher (1978–1986) and senior researcher (1986–1990). In 1980, under Professor B. V. Lunin, she defended her candidate's dissertation on the historiography of the resolution of the women's question in Uzbekistan in 1917–1941. In 1987–1988 she did a research internship at the Institute of Russian History of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

She studied in the institute's doctoral programme in 1990–1992 and in 1991 defended her doctoral dissertation on the women's question in Soviet historiography of Central Asia (1920s–1980s). From 1992 she headed the department of historiography and source studies. She was deputy director in 1998–2000 and director of the Institute of History of the Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan in 2000–2010; she received the title of professor in 2001. In 1998–2010 she was a member and chair of the specialized council for doctoral defences.

Her research covers the theory and methodology of historical science, historiography, the history of Uzbek statehood, the women's question in Central Asia and the Jadid movement. She wrote the three-volume monograph “History as History, History as Science” (2008–2018); with E. Rtveladze she prepared the volumes “History of Uzbek Statehood” and “History of Uzbekistan: The Age of Amir Temur and the Timurids”, and in 2012 she published the volume “History of Uzbekistan (16th to the first half of the 19th century)”. Her work appeared in 5 single-author and 41 collective monographs, 16 booklets and more than 350 articles.

Since 2000 she has been editor-in-chief of the academic journal O'zbekiston tarixi, and since 1998 chair of the republican seminar “History of the Uzbek People and Its Statehood” named after Academician Yahyo Ghulomov. Nineteen candidate's and eleven doctoral dissertations have been defended under her supervision; she has lectured on historiography and the methodology of history in the master's programme of the history faculty of the National University. Three school textbooks appeared under her editorship.

In 2003 she received the Order of Labour Glory (“Mehnat shuhrati”), and in 2017 the badge “Excellent Worker of Public Education” of the Ministry of Public Education.