Participant Info

First Name
Melissa
Last Name
Chakars
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
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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
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