I specialized on linguistic anthropology of Kazakhstan. For my MA thesis, which I completed at Universite de Montreal, I carried out a three months ethnographic to uncover linguistic ideologies supporting code preferences and languaging practices in Astana, Kazakhstan’s capital. For my PhD dissertation at the University of British Columbia, I’ll realize a multi-sites ethnographic fieldwork, seeking to understand how gendered migration could articulate with linguistic shift from Kazakh to Russian. In this project, I aim to enlarge the solid theoretical training in linguistic anthropology I received at the Universite de Montreal to include migration and gender studies to my analysis.

–. 2024. Performer une identité translinguistique: Perspectives intertextuelles sur l’ecologie linguistique d’Astana. Master thesis. Montreal: Universite de Montreal.

–. 2023. Parler russe en ex-URSS: L’indexicalité du parler quotidien au Kazakhstan. Conference prepared for VocUM: Interdisciplinary conference dedicated to languages, Université de Montreal, November 10.

–. Seeing Astana through its speakers: Intertextual perspectives on a translinguistic community. Conference prepared for Central Eurasian Studies Society Annual Conference, University of Pittsburgh, October 20.

–. Performing Identity & Resistance Through Language Choices: The Reindexicalizations of Kazakh in Astana. Conference prepared for Semiotic Anthropology Conference, University of Pennsylvania, May 13.

Canada Graduate Scholarship – Doctorat (CGS D)

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSRCH), 2024

Fellowship for master in research B1Z, Fond de Recherche du Quebec – Societes et Cultures (FRQSC), 2022

Canada Graduate Scholarship – Master (CGS M), Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSRCH), 2022