School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics
Dr Aglaia Iankovskaia
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- Roles
- School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics Postdoctoral Researcher
- Email address
- ai30@soas.ac.uk
Biography
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Aglaia Iankovskaia did her undergraduate studies in history and cultural anthropology in St. Petersburg State University and received a master’s degree in medieval studies from the Central European University in Budapest.
During her PhD studies in the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera) of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, she completed Arabic and Indonesian language courses in Morocco and Indonesia.
In 2016, Aglaia defended a doctoral thesis dealing with descriptions and perceptions of the Indonesian-Malay world in pre-modern Arabic geographies and travelogues. In 2017-2021 she worked in the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography as a junior research fellow, and between 2021 and 2024 held a postdoctoral position in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem as part of the ERC project Textual Microcosms: A New Approach in Translation Studies.
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Aglaia’s research interests include history of cultural engagements between the Middle East and Indonesian-Malay world, as well as history and cultural anthropology of northern Sumatra.
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