Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

Post-Doc, Kennan Institute

Title VIII Supported Research Scholar

Thesis Title: Knowledge and Authority in Shift: A Linguistic Ethnography of Multilingual News Media in the Buryat Territories of Russia

About

I am a linguistic and sociocultural anthropologist currently researching and writing full-time as a Title VIII scholar at the Wilson Center's Kennan Institute. I received my doctorate from the University of Michigan in April 2012 and look forward to joining the Departments of Anthropology and Central Eurasian Studies at Indiana University as a Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow this fall.

My topical interests include mass media, multilingualism, language shift and endangerment, knowledge and information, socialism and post-socialism, and intellectual property. My main research to date has been ethnographic, archival, and linguistic research in the Russian Federation, focusing on the Buryat territories of southeastern Siberia. This research was the basis for my dissertation on minority-language news media, and for my current book project on local, "national" media and ethnic politics in the RF. I have also conducted smaller research projects in European Russia, Mongolia, and South Africa, and am broadly interested in how ideologies governing language and culture have moved transnationally during the Cold War and contemporary eras.

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