Participant Info
- First Name
- Melissa
- Last Name
- Chakars
- Country
- United States
- State
- PA Pennsylvania
- mchakars@sju.edu
- Affiliation
- Saint Joseph's University
- Website URL
- https://www.sju.edu/faculty/melissa-chakars
- Keywords
- Russia, Mongolia, Former Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, Baltic states, Siberia, Buddhism, Tuva, Kalmykia, Buryatia
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
- Recent Publications
“Buddhism and the Siberian Buryat Chronicles: Stories of Origin, Rivalry, and Negotiation in the Russian Empire,” History of Religions 60/2 (2020): 81-102, DOI: 10.1086/710574
“The All-Buryat Congress for the Spiritual Rebirth and Consolidation of the Nation: Siberian Politics in the Final Year of the USSR,” Journal of Eurasian Studies (2020), DOI: 10.1177/1879366620902863
“The Repression of Buryat Buddhism in the 1930s: Competing
Narratives of Soviet and Western Histories During the Cold War,” Mongolian Studies 38 (2020): 31-46.
“Free Time is Not Meant to be Wasted: Educational, Political, and Taboo Leisure Activities among the Soviet Buryats of Eastern Siberia,” Nationalities Papers 47/4 (2019): 660-673.
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- twitter.com/chakarsm?lang=en
- Country Focus
- Russia
- Expertise by Geography
- Asia, Eastern Europe, Russia
- Expertise by Chronology
- 19th century, 20th century, 21st century
- Expertise by Topic
- Colonialism, Genocide, Human Rights, Indigenous Peoples, Local & Regional, Rebellion & Revolution, Religion, Women
