Anton Ermakov

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