- Email:
- antermak@iu.edu
Education History:
MLS (in progress) - Indiana University at Bloomington
MA in Central Eurasian Studies (in progress) - Indiana University at Bloomington
BA in History and Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies - University of Texas at Austin (2018)
Honors and Awards:
2018 Liberal Arts Honors Outstanding Thesis Award in the Humanities - University of Texas
2018 John Ferguson Thesis Prize for Excellence in the Study of History- University of Texas
2017 Rapoport-King Thesis Scholarship - University of Texas
2016 Swedish Excellence Endowment Scholarship
Grants and Fellowships:
2019-2020 and 2020-2021 Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship, Mongolian
2019 ILS Technology Award
Languages:
- Russian (native)
- English (native-level proficiency)
- Mongolian (intermediate)
- Swedish (reading)
- Spanish (reading)
Publications:
2018: "Grandfather Frost Meets Comrade Stalin: The New Year Holiday as Stalinist Ritual." Clio's Scroll: The Berkeley Undergraduate History Journal 20, no. 1 (2018): 43-77.
2016: “Reckless Imaginations and Dashed Dreams,” (winner, Liberal Arts Honors’ Pinto-Carver Essay Contest) published in the Spring 2016 issue of the University of Texas Liberal Arts Honors newsletter
Research interests: Mongolian and Buryat socialist experience, secular ritual, personality cults, religion in socialist states