Cultural anthropologist with a PhD from the University of Bern, specialising in religion and politics. Have experience in extensive long-term fieldwork and peer-reviewed publications on various topics, and a strong ability to adapt complex research findings for broader and non-academic audiences.…

Yulia Savostina

Cultural anthropologist with a PhD from the University of Bern, specialising in religion and politics. Have experience in extensive long-term fieldwork and peer-reviewed publications on various topics, and a strong ability to adapt complex research findings for broader and non-academic audiences.…

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Cultural anthropologist with a PhD from the University of Bern, specialising in religion and politics. Have experience in extensive long-term fieldwork and peer-reviewed publications on various topics, and a strong ability to adapt complex research findings for broader and non-academic audiences.

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Language

English
Advanced
Mongolian
Advanced
French
Advanced
Russian
Fluent

Work Experience

Erasmus Teaching Exchange Participant at Institute for Asian and African Studies, Humboldt University Berlin
January 1, 2023 - December 31, 2023
Delivered seminars/lectures on fieldwork methods and challenges; Buddhist symbols in Mongolia; controversies in Buddhism in Mongolia.
Part-time Lecturer at Institute for the Scientific Study of Religion and Central Asian Studies, University of Bern
January 1, 2022 - December 31, 2022
Course entitled Gods, Politics and Everyday Life.
Lecturer (PhD Student) at Institute for the Scientific Study of Religion and Central Asian Studies, University of Bern
January 1, 2020 - December 31, 2020
Course entitled Descendants of Chinggis Khan - Followers of the Buddha: Religion, Nationalism and the Politics of Resistance in the History of Tibet and Mongolia.
PhD Researcher at Institute for the Scientific Study of Religion and Central Asian Studies, University of Bern
January 1, 2018 - January 1, 2024
PhD research focusing on vernacular religion and Central Asian religious practices; conducted extensive fieldwork in Mongolia, Buryatia, Irkutsk Oblast, and the Russian North; mapping vernacular practices and fieldwork on the Dorje Shugden controversy.
Junior Research Fellow at Russian State University for the Humanities
January 1, 2016 - January 1, 2018
Research fellowship focusing on folklore and ethnology; contributed to fieldwork and analysis.

Education

Master of Arts in Typological and Semiotic Folklore Studies at Russian State University for the Humanities, Centre for Typological and Semiotic Folklore Studies
January 1, 2013 - January 1, 2015
Bachelor of Arts at Russian State University for the Humanities, Institute of History and Philology
January 1, 2007 - January 1, 2012
Mongolian language study (scholarship) at National University of Mongolia
January 1, 2013 - January 1, 2013

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Industry Experience

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