College: Girton College
Email: ai397@cam.ac.uk
Supervisor: Dr. Anna Berman
Project Title:听鈥淪cratch a Russian, and you鈥檒l find a Tatar:鈥� Russian conflicting identity vis-脿-vis the Orient from the middle 19th century to the beginning of the 20th century
About Me: I鈥檓 interested in Russian identity and particularly, citizenhood. I have previously worked on the Soviet deportations of the 1930s.听
Research: My work currently focuses on 19th century Russian history. I look at the conquest of Central Asia and the relation between intellectuals and the Russian East as a building block for their reinvention of Russian identity.听
Fellowships:
KLT Korea Foundation fellowship
Conference papers:
AAS-in-Asia 2023 (Kyungpook National University, South Korea) with the panel: Memoryscapes of Empire: 鈥淜orean Displacements in Northeast Asia in Transnational Memory and Multilingual Archives鈥澨�
Situations International Conference 2024 (Yonsei University, South Korea) Individual paper: 鈥淭he Red Sickle: The Soviet and Japanese rivalry through the eyes of Koryo Sarams鈥�
28th IPSA World Congress of Political Science 2025 (Seoul, South Korea) Individual paper: 鈥淭he Creation of the Koryo Saram and the Idea of Soviet Citizenhood.鈥澨�
