Dr. Daria Boltokova

Biography

Daria Boltokova is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Memorial University of Newfoundland. Her research and teaching interests are in linguistic and sociocultural anthropology, with a special focus on language revitalization, Indigenous self-governance, and youth activism. An Indigenous Sakha originally from a small community in Northeastern Russia, Boltokova completed her B.A. in St. Petersburg before receiving two MAs and a PhD from the University of British Columbia. She joined Memorial University in 2022, after spending three years as a doctoral research fellow at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University, and two years as a postdoctoral scholar in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Chicago.

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