Nadezhda (Nadia) Mamontova PhD

MA (with honours) Social Anthropology – Russian State University for the Humanities

MA (with honours) in Altaic Studies – University of Helsinki

Kandidatskaya (equivalent to a PhD) History – Institute for Ethnology and Anthropology, Russian Academy of Sciences

PhD Geography and the Environment – Oxford University

Dr Nadia Mamontova is currently a Newton International Fellow. Before coming to the UK she was a collegium researcher at the Turku Institute for Advanced Studies, Finland, and a Banting Postdoctoral Fellow with the Geography Program at the University of Northern British Columbia, Canada. In 2020, she completed a PhD at the University of Oxford in the School of Geography and the Environment. Before that she earned a PhD in History (Social Anthropology) from the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Russian Academy of Sciences. She has two Master's degrees with honours in Social Anthropology and Altaic Studies from the Russian State University for the Humanities (2009) and the University of Helsinki (2015). Since 2007, she carried out fourteen field expeditions among the Evenki and other Indigenous communities in the Russian North.

Indigenous people of Siberia and the Arctic, indigenous cartography, geological anthropology, space and place studies, indigenous place names, critical toponymy, community-based and collaborative methods in social sciences, indigenous geoontologies

Dr Mamontova has long been involved in research with indigenous communities of the North. Her research projects have focused on indigenous language documentation, place names, and vernacular cartography. She recently published a book of indigenous Evenki narratives in the Evenki language as an effort to maintain this endangered Siberian language. As a social anthropologist, Dr Mamontova has served as an invited specialist on indigenous matters for the European Council, Russian Ministry for Regional Development, and Exxon Neftegas Company. In 2018 – 2019, she was part of the organizing committee of the UK Polar Network, where she worked to promote collaboration between UK and Russian Early Career Researchers doing research in the Arctic. Currently, Mamontova is the Principal Investigator for the project ‘GIS-based community-oriented Indigenous Evenki toponymic platform’, supported by the Research Strategic Initiatives Grant (RSIG), Canada.