Olga Lauter

Research Interests:

• Urban anthropology
• Cross-cultural religious experience
• Ethnohistory
• Arctic Indigenous peoples

Peer reviewed publications:

2020: (under review)

• Challenges in Combining Indigenous and Scientific Knowledge in the Arctic, article for the Arctic FROST Education and Sustainable Development workshop & book project.

2019:

• Protestant and Orthodox missions in Alaska: Sheldon Jackson's and Ivan Veniaminov’s activities, Arctic: History and Modernity: works of the Annual International Scientific Conference, St. Petersburg, Russia, pp. 9-15.

Conferences and Presentations:

2020: (Accepted at)

• Tradition Negotiation within the Yupik Religious Community in Anchorage, Alaska, International Congress of Arctic Sciences (ICASS X), Arctic Generations: A Look into the Past and the Future, postponed to June 15-19, 2021.
• The Yupik Indigenous Peoples' Humor and Well-Being, International Congress of Arctic Sciences (ICASS X), Arctic Generations: A Look into the Past and the Future, postponed to June 15-19, 2021.
• Reexamining ethical and methodological digital ethnography challenges in the times of Covid-19 outbreak, Vienna Anthropology Days (online conference), Vienna, Austria, September 28 - October 1, 2020.
• The Impact of Historical Trauma on the Alaskan Yupik Indigenous Peoples, Presentation at the online IX International Symposium on American Studies "History of Americas: Individual, People, Cultures", St. Petersburg, Russia, June 24-25, 2020.
• Alaska Native Traditions in the Anchorage Urban Environment, Presentation at the 47th Annual Meeting of the Alaska Anthropological Association, Fairbanks. Alaska, February 26-29, 2020.

2019:

• Colonization and Religion: Alaska Native-Missionary exchange, Presentation at the Pacific Rim Conference on English Studies, UAA, Anchorage, Alaska, April 19-20, 2019.

2018:

• Protestant and Orthodox missions in Alaska: Sheldon Jackson's and Ivan Veniaminov’s activities, Third International Scientific Conference "Arctic: History and Modernity", St. Petersburg, Russia, April 18-19, 2018.

Education:

• Since 2017: PhD candidate in Anthropology under the supervision of Emmanuel Désveaux, EHESS, Paris, France.
• 2016-2017: Preparation year to PhD dissertation project, EHESS, Paris, France.
• 2007-2008: Bachelor in Applied Foreign Languages: German and Russian, University Jean Moulin Lyon 3, France.
• 2000-2006: Master in linguistics and teaching: English/German, State Linguistic University of Nizhniy Novgorod, Russia.

Teaching:

• 2019: Invited Guest Lecturer. A comparative study of different religious syncretism forms of the Native people of Southern Alaska. Presentation at the Alaska Native Perspectives course, University of Alaska Anchorage, Alaska.
• 2016 – 2018: Adjunct Instructor in English, Russian and Culture, ESAM School of Advanced Management and Finance, EFHT Ecole Française Hôtesse et de Tourisme, Paris, France.
• 2014 – 2015: Adjunct Instructor in English, University Paris Est Marne-la-Vallée, France.

Languages:

• Russian - native language
• English - written and spoken fluency
• French - written and spoken fluency
• German - written and spoken fluency

Contact:

Teaching:

Gluckman

Last Update: 09/18/2020.