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2026-27 Visiting Scholar Fellowship Awardees

We are thrilled to announce the recipients of our Visiting Scholar Fellowship Program for the 2026-27 term. This year, we received a large number of high-quality applications from across the world, making the selection process exceptionally challenging. The selected scholars will join us for several months, and we eagerly anticipate the impactful research outcomes that will emerge from these collaborations.

 

 

Name

Affiliation

Research Title

1

GARRI, Irina

Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Buryat-Mongols and Building Nationalism in Inner Asia

2

Evgeniya, Sakharova

HSE University

“Zenrin Kokuhōki” (善隣国宝記, 1470), translation and research

3

NAMSARAEVA, Sayana

University of Cambridge

1. Race and ethnicity in the Russia’s warfare: Soviet and post-Soviet practices of the (mis)use of Siberian ethnic minorities.

2. Transborder connections along the Russia-Mongolia Border (historical and contemporary encounters)

4

ISHTSEREN Lochin

Mongolian Academy of Sciences

Newly discovered iron ore smelting furnaces of the Early Iron Age and Xiongnu period from the Mongolian steppe

5

VALLIKIVI, Laur

University of Tartu

Ongoing Colonialism and Predatory Others in the Russian Arctic: War, Memory, and Indigenous Ethics