Dr. Saulesh Yessenova
Positions
Associate Professor
Contact information
Phone number
Office: +1 (403) 220-3480
Location
Office: ES602C
Preferred method of communication
My preferred method of comunication is via email.
Background
Educational Background
Doctor of Philosophy Anthropology, McGill University, 2003
M.A. Sociology, Central European University, 1994
B.A. History & English, Kazakh State University, 1988
Biography
Saulesh Yessenova received her Ph.D. in Anthropology from McGill University in 2003. She is the author of The Politics and Poetics of the Nation: Urban Narratives of Kazakh Identity (Lambert Academic Publishing, 2009), a monograph based on her PhD thesis. Upon graduation she was awarded with a Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) post-doctoral fellowship (2003/05), which she took to the University of British Columbia. From 2005 until 2008, when she got an appointment at UCalgary, she was a post-doctoral fellow at Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Germany. In her previous research, she was particularly interested in a critical conjunction of nation/state-building and crude oil, the key endeavours that Kazakhstan, the country where she conducts her research, launched upon independence. Key venues in her ethnographic study included public spectacles, corporate disasters, international oil contracts, everyday practices, and the oil-producing communities in the Caspian region, struggling to survive the boom. In her ongoing research that was supported by SSHRC, she focuses on Kazakhstan’s nuclear history and anthropology.
Research
Areas of Research
Participation in university strategic initiatives
Courses
| Course number | Course title | Semester |
|---|---|---|
| ANTH 371 LEC 01 01 | Political Anthropology | |
| ANTH 399 | Disaster Studies | |
| ANTH 611 | Anthropological Methods of Research |
Projects
Awards
- Fellowship, Calgary Institute for Humanities, 2014
- Outstanding Author Contribution Award, 2011
- Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Germany, Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, 2005
- Social Sciences and Humanities Research Concil Post-doctoral Fellowship, 2003
- Center for the Study of Nationalism, Central European University, Pre-Doctoral Fellowship, 1995
- MA with Distinction Central European/Lancaster University, 1994
Publications
- "“Oil Is Our Wet Nurse”: Oil Production and Munayshilar (Oil Workers) in Soviet Kazakhstan." . Saulesh B Yessenova. Palgrave Macmillan, Springer Nature . 369-398. (2018)
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