I am a historical anthropologist interested in a wide range of topics concerning Siberia and the Circumpolar North, where I have been collaborating with local and Indigenous communities (predominantly with Nenets and Altai) for more than two decades. Furthermore, my research and teaching interests also comprise the themes of human-environment relations, the social and cultural lives of archival collections and museum artefacts, visual and sonic studies, and Siberian Indigenous and settler-colonial literatures. My research methodologies are based on a relativistic and bottom-up understanding of human practices and ideologies and intersections of academic and “non-western” ways of knowing. As a field ethnographer, I have conducted research in Siberia and the Russian North, Northern Finland, Svalbard, North Caucasus, and Inner Mongolia.

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