Alina Ivanova
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About
Project Title: “Scratch a Russian, and you’ll find a Tatar:” Russian conflicting identity vis-à-vis the Orient from the middle 19th century to the beginning of the 20th century
Supervisor: Dr. Anna Berman
I’m interested in Russian identity and particularly, citizenhood. I have previously worked on the Soviet deportations of the 1930s.
Fellowships:
KLT Korea Foundation fellowship
Conference papers:
AAS-in-Asia 2023 (Kyungpook National University, South Korea) with the panel: Memoryscapes of Empire: “Korean Displacements in Northeast Asia in Transnational Memory and Multilingual Archives”
Situations International Conference 2024 (Yonsei University, South Korea) Individual paper: “The Red Sickle: The Soviet and Japanese rivalry through the eyes of Koryo Sarams”
28th IPSA World Congress of Political Science 2025 (Seoul, South Korea) Individual paper: “The Creation of the Koryo Saram and the Idea of Soviet Citizenhood.”
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.