Dr Ekaterina Zibrova awarded Dialogbüro Vienna Fellowship
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WiCDS reseacher invited to join prestigious Austrian fellowship programme
Dr Ekaterina Dibrova, formerly a postdoc and now a research fellow at the Wits Centre for Diversity Studies, has been selected from over 250 applicants to join the Dialogbüro Vienna Fellowship Program in Austria. The fellowship has been awarded to support Dr Zibrova's groundbreaking book project on Indigenous identity, which focuses specifically on how economic identity has been constructed to draw Indigenous peoples into the Russian/Soviet empire and its economic system. During the fellowship she will work in the archives the Vienna Ethnographic Museum and also present a lecture for the fellowship program.