Research Interests
Indigenous peoples of Siberia and the Russian Arctic
Indigenous literatures
Literatures of contact
Critical indigenous theory
(meta)Ethnography
Epistemology
Evidence
Dungan and Sinophone diasporas in Post-Soviet spaces
Research Description
My research focuses on analyzing the epistemological frameworks used in the early ethnographies of Indigenous Siberians and other literatures of contact.
Education
M.A.—University of Toronto, Slavic Languages and Literatures
B.A.—University of California, Riverside, Languages (Russian and German)
Grants
FLAS 2021-2022, Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian, UIUC
FLAS 2021 summer, BCS, UIUC
Title VIII 2021 summer, BCS, Indiana University (Summer Language Workshop)
FLAS 2020-2021, Russian, UIUC
Title VIII 2020 summer, Russian, Indiana University (SLW)
Title VIII 2019 summer, Russian, Indiana University (SLW)