The priority-driven scientific trends of the institute

• problems of ethnogeny and ethnic history of the Kazakhs
• the ethnography and reconstruction material culture and way of life of Kazakh society
• ethnic anthropology
• history, historiography and source study of the medieval Kazakhstan
• problems of methodology and historiography, source study of Kazakhstan
• national liberation movement of the Kazakh people
• problems of history of national state system and state security
• the history of Kazakhstan in the Soviet period
• social and demographic development of Kazakhstan in 19-th and 20-th centuries
• Kipchak studies
• actual social-political and economic problems of the history of Kazakhstan in the 20-th cetury
• adaptation of quantitative methods and computer-based technology in historical studies