Lebenslauf

Education and career

1996
A levels (taken at the Lady Eleanor Holles School, Hampton, London, 1996): General Studies (A), Psychology (A), Biology (B), Chemistry (C).

1997-2001
First Class Bachelor of Arts with Honours in combined studies (Russian and Philosophy), from the University of Manchester. (October 1997 – June 2001)

2001-2002
I spent September 2001 – October 2002 working for the Literary Review magazine in London, and doing work experience in Tbilisi, Georgia at Georgia Today and Tbilisi Pastimes; in Moscow at the Itar Tass news agency; and in London at the Times, the Sunday Telegraph Magazine and the Financial Times.

2002-2003
Master of Arts in Print Journalism from the London College of Printing, Great Britain. (October 2002 – September 2003) My dissertation had the title, “Post-Soviet Russian Media in the Light of Habermas’ Public Sphere: What Happened to Russia’s Fourth Estate?”

Post-graduate Diploma in Print Journalism from the London College of Printing, Great Britain. (October 2002 – September 2003)

2003-2010
PhD from the Faculty of Psychology, Politics, Sociology and International Studies, University of Cambridge (October 2003 – February 2010). My dissertation had the title ‘Print, Power and Personhood: Newspapers and Ethnic Identity in East Siberia’.

2006
While doing my PhD, I assisted at the BOREAS Conference on Siberia, at the Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge. (June, 2006)

I helped to organise a workshop on Political Anthropology at the Scott Polar Research Institute. (June, 2006)

2007-2009
I edited a special issue of Inner Asia, a peer-reviewed journal at the Mongolian and Inner Asia Studies Unit, University of Cambridge, on contemporary Buryatia (July 2007 – May 2009). I have edited, reviewed and translated articles for Inner Asia over 2007.

I have supervised undergraduates studying at the Departments of Sociology and Slavonic Studies, Cambridge University.

Fieldwork

2004-2005
One month in late 2004, the six summer months of 2005 spent in Siberia collecting newspaper material for the PhD dissertation (staying in Irkutsk region, Buryatia and Sakha (Yakutia).

2009
Three weeks in June, 2009, in Sakha (Yakutia) and Buryatia, to prepare for a postdoc proposal.

Language skills

English (native)
Russian
German (basic)