MIT Anthropology - Faculty Bio - Manduhai Buyandelger

MANDUHAI BUYANDELGER | Curriculum Vitae

DATE: January 2009

EDUCATION

INSTITUTION	DEGREE	DATE
Harvard University	Ph.D. in Social Anthropology	2004
Harvard University	MA in Social Anthropology	1999
National University of Mongolia	MA in Philology	1995
National University of Mongolia	BA in Literature and Linguistics	1993

FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS

National Science Foundation (Gender and Technologies of Election in Mongolia)	2008
Wenner-Gren Foundation Post-doctoral Grant	2008
William Milton Fund of Harvard University	2006-2007
Academy of Achievement Scholar	2005
Weatherhead Center Graduate Student Affiliate Grant, Harvard University	2002-2003
Soros Foundation Graduate Studies Grant, Global Supplementary Fund	2002-2003
Anthropology Department Student Conference Grant, Harvard University	2002
Eliot Fellowship for Dissertation Completion, Harvard University	2001-2002
Asia Center Travel Grant (dissertation follow-up research), Harvard University	2001-2002
Resident Fellowship, Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard University	2001-2002
Davis Center for Russian Studies Grant (dissertation follow-up), Harvard University	2001
Graduate School Conference Travel Grant, Harvard University	2001
Dissertation Fellowship, Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard University	2000-2001
Mellon Foundation Dissertation Research Grant, Harvard University	1999
Religion in Contemporary Asia Travel Grant, Asia Center, Harvard University	1999
Population Center, Dissertation Research Grant, Harvard University (declined)	1999
Social Science International Dissertation Research Fellowship	1999-2000
Wenner-Gren Dissertation Research Grant	1999-2000
Matsushita International Foundation, Japan Dissertation Research Grant	1999-2000
Mellon Foundation Pre-dissertation Research Grant, Harvard University	1998
Harvard University Fellowship in Social Anthropology, Department of Social Medicine	1997-1999
Harvard University Inner Asian and Altaic Studies Fellowship	1995-1997
Harvard University Inner Asian and Altaic Studies Summer Travel Grant	1996
Fulbright Fellowship for Graduate Studies Awarded by the U.S. Information Service	1995-1999

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

2008-present	Assistant Professor of Anthropology, MIT
2006	Lecturer, Harvard Anthropology Department
2004-2007	Harvard Society of Fellows (Post-Doctoral Fellow)
2002	Instructor, Harvard University
1993-1995	Lecturer, National University of Mongolia
1993	Lecturer, College for Asian Studies of Mongolia

SEMINARS, COLLOQUIA, ETC.

November 2008		"Women and the Technologies of Election: From the 2008 Parliamentary Elections in Mongolia", Mongolia Conference, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
November 2007		"Tricky Representations: Buddhism in the Cinema during Socialism in Mongolia", University of British Columbia, Simon Frazer University, Canada.
November 2007		"Impossibility of Knowing the Past: Muted Ghosts, Mass Graves, and the State in Contemporary Mongolia", University of California, Santa Cruz.
November 2006		"Raised Corpses: Transformation in the Constituency of the Shamanic Spirit World after Socialism in Mongolia", American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, San Jose, CA.
November 2006		"Raised Corpses: Transformation in the Constituency of the Shamanic Spirit World after Socialism in Mongolia", Harvard University East Asian Studies (Inner Asian luncheon series)
March 2006		"Celestial Court: Imagining the Nation-State in the Margins of Post-Socialist Mongolia", International Conference on Inner Asian Statecrafts, Cambridge University, UK and Ecole Pratique Des Hautes, France.
November 2005		"Dialogues on Democracy: "Yellow Media" and the Internet during Mongolia's 2005 Presidential Election". Presented at the panel Encounters with Transforming Governance in East Asia: Anthropological Perspectives on Democracy, Citizenship, and Self at the conference New England American Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference, Bentley College, Massachusetts.
October 2004		"(Un)Protected Individuals: Shamanism and Gendered Survival in a Dangerous Economy of Mongolia". Presented at the Central Eurasian Annual Association meeting in Boston, Massachusetts.
April 2004		"Sacrificing for the Nation? Memory, Fear, and Desire for Sovereignty." Presented at the Spring Conference for the Society for Cultural Anthropology, Portland, Oregon.
November 2003		"Striking the Balance? Civil Society, Shamanism, and Political Imagination in Mongolia." Presented at the American Anthropological Association Annual meeting, Chicago, Illinois.
October 2003		"The Spirits of My Homeland is Recalling Me: Nationalism, Landscape, and Religion, among the Buriats of Mongolia." Presented at the Central Eurasian Annual Association Meeting at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
November 2002		"Hidden Exploitation of Women: Making Shamanic Paraphernalia among the Buriats in Post-Socialist Rural Mongolia." Presented at the Annual Meeting at the Association for American Anthropologists, New Orleans, Lousiana.
February 2002		"Where are the Female Shamans? Gender and Political Economy of Post-Socialist Mongolia", Peabody Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.
2001		"Divine Blacksmiths and Profane Seamstresses: Gender, Power and Merit in Making Shamanic Paraphernalia among the Buriats of Mongolia." Presented at the Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard University.
1999		"The Revival of Shamanic Practices among the Buriats of Mongolia." Presented at The Annual Meeting for Mongolia Society in Boston, at the American Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting.

RELATED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2002		Curator, Peabody Museum

PROFESSIONAL TRAINING

September 2002 and 2003		Teaching Fellows Annual Workshops, Harvard University

FIELDS OF INTEREST

Postsocialism, Subjectivities, Popular Religion, Shamanism and Buddhism, Critiques of Neoliberalism, Technologies of Elections, Media and Politics, Anthropology of the State, Gender and Feminist Studies, Memory, Oral History, Political Violence, Mongolia, Russia, Post-Soviet Central Asia.

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