Honorary Research Fellow
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External Memberships
Assistant Professor in Siberian Indigenous Studies at the Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
- Research
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Research Overview
I am a historian who is intellectually and affectively attached to anthropological ideas and long-term fieldworking (PhD, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm) and an anthropologist who is fallen in love with history (Candidate of Sciences, Museum of Ethnography and Anthropology, Saint Petersburg). My bi-disciplinary identity is forged through the curiosity about our mundane life which is inseparable from our imaginaries. I am interested in how the paths, ideas and practices of scholars and people they collaborate with cross one another, coevolve and consequently shape the "stable" notions of the environment, social life, and the past. All this spurs me on to constantly nomadize between the Arctic/Siberian lively "field" and secluded and dusty "archives", where I seek and come up with most of my ideas. The arguments of my writings revolve around the entangled lives of anthropological and natural science ideas and the long-term dynamics of human-environment interactions in the circumpolar North.
Current Research
At the moment, I am working on two projects. The first is on the histories and ethnographies of seeds and Arctic agricultures and the second is dedicated to the digitisation and repatriation of old wax cylinders and tape recordings to "source communities" in Northern Eurasia.
Knowledge Exchange
In 2022, I co-chaired (together with Dr Anna Oleneko) the Environmental History Today seminar series within the ESEH.
Funding and Grants
Current projects
2022-2023 - Funding institution: “High Risk/High Gain” within the Biodiverse Anthropocenes Program at the University of Oulu. Project title: SEESU – Seeding the Sustainable Future: A Pilot Research on How the Arctic Saves the World Agricultures. PI, co-PI Prof Vesa-Pekka Herva, Oulu University. Total budget: €33 323
2022-2026 - Funding institution: Eudaimonia Institute at the University of Oulu, Finland. Project title: Archiving the Planet: Material Infrastructures and Ecologies of Storage in the High North (SEEDARC). PIs: Prof Vesa-Pekka Herva and Dr. Esa Ruuskanen (Oulu University, Finland). Post-Doctoral Fellow. Total budget: €420 000
2022-2024 - [declined upon receiving another grant] Funding institution: Biodiverse Anthropocenes Transdisciplinary Program, University of Oulu, Finland, Project title: The Lives of Seeds and Technoscientific Infrastructures in the Eurasian North. Program directors: Prof Marko Mutanen, Dr Roger Norum. PI of an individual project / Post-Doctoral Fellow. Total budget: €180 000
2022-2025 - [postponed due to the Russian war in Ukraine] Funding institution: The Modern Endangered Archives Program (MEAP) / UCLA Library granting program funded by Arcadia Fund (US). Project title: Siberian Voices. Voices of Pre-Industrial Siberia: The Collections of the Pushkin House (MEAP-3-0065). PIs: Dr Dmitry Arzyutov (University of Oulu, Finland), Prof David Anderson (University of Aberdeen, UK), Dr Svetlana Podrezova (The Institute of Russian Literature – The Pushkin House, Russia). Total budget: $49 768
2022-2023 - [postponed due to the Russian war in Ukraine] Funding institution: The Khamovniki Foundation (Russia). Project title: Horns and Hoofs: Reindeer Body and Market Infrastructures in Eurasia. PI. Total budget: ₽2 400 000 (= €27 000)
- Publications
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Ethno-Eye
The Russian Review, vol. 81, no. 4, pp. 657-660Contributions to Journals: Comments and Debates- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/russ.12384
Briefe in schwierigen Zeiten, in denen Boas „nein“ sagte: Zwei Erzählungen zu den Rändern von Franz Boas’ Res Publica Literaria
Franz Boas – die Haltung eines Wissenschaftlers in Zeiten politischer Umbrüche. Kasten, E. (ed.). Kulturstiftung Sibirien gGmbH, pp. 163-180Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersKhozhdenie kaninskogo samoedina I͡Akushki Pirchikova samovol'stvom v aglinskui͡u zemli͡u i obratno: k istorii nenet͡sko-angliĭskikh kontaktov v pervoĭ polovine XVII v.
Siberica et Uralica. Anikin, A., Gusev, V., Urmancheva, A. (eds.). University of Szeged Press, pp. 415-451Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersPuteshestvii͡a cherez sibirskui͡u step' i taĭgu k antropologicheskim kont͡sept͡sii͡am: ėtnoistorii͡a Sergei͡a i Elizavety Shirokogorovykh
Vol. 2/2, Indrik, Moscow. 776 pagesBooks and Reports: BooksPuteshestvii͡a cherez sibirskui͡u step' i taĭgu k antropologicheskim kont͡sept͡sii͡am: ėtnoistorii͡a Sergei͡a i Elizavety Shirokogorovykh
Vol. 2/1, Indrik, Moscow. 456 pagesBooks and Reports: BooksRooting in the Subterranean: Underground Dwellers in Northern Indigenous Narratives and Metropolitan Anthropological Theories
Histories of Anthropology Annual. University of Nebraska PressChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersT͡Selye chasti: transnat͡sional'nye traektorii arkhivov Sergei͡a i Elizavety Shirokogorovykh
Antropologicheskii Forum, no. 51, pp. 175–198Contributions to Journals: ArticlesChukotskie risunki ėtnograficheskogo reli͡ativizma, ili kak Vladimir Germanovich mog by prokommentirovat' stat'i͡u Dmitrii͡a Aleksandrovicha
Etnograficheskoe Obozrenie, no. 5, pp. 98-101Contributions to Journals: ArticlesDomestication as Enskilment: Harnessing Reindeer in Arctic Siberia
Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, vol. 28, no. 1, pp. 197–231Contributions to Journals: ArticlesReindeer Imagery in the Making at Ust’-Polui in Arctic Siberia
Cambridge Archaeological Journal, vol. 31, no. 1, pp. 161-181Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0959774320000414
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