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Dr. Olga Ulturgasheva is a Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester, UK. Her research focuses on human and non-human personhood, indigenous childhood and youth, and climate change resilience and adaptation patterns in Siberia, the American Arctic, and Amazonia. She serves as Principal Investigator and co-Principal Investigator for two large international research projects funded by the US National Science Foundation (NSF) and European Research Council (ERC), examining climate change impacts on knowledge production, environmental policies, and indigenous adaptation strategies.
She is affiliated with the Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit (MIASU) at the University of Cambridge and has contributed to academic discourse through her edited book Risky Futures: Climate, Geopolitics and Local Realities in the Uncertain Circumpolar North (Berghahn Books, 2022), co-edited with Barbara Bodenhorn.
- Research areas: Indigenous epistemologies, climate change, circumpolar anthropology
- Projects: NSF/ERC-funded studies on environmental risk and cross-disciplinary collaboration
Scientific awards and grants include:
- Principal Investigator for US National Science Foundation (NSF) grants
- Co-Principal Investigator for European Research Council (ERC) grants
