Guzel Yusupova

Dr Guzel Yusupova holds a PhD in Sociology from the European University at Saint Petersburg (EUSP). She was Research Fellow at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM) in Austria, and Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute for Research on Migration, Ethnicity and Society (REMESO) at Linköping University, Sweden. She has also taught at Kazan Federal University, Tatarstan, Russia.

In October 2017, Dr Yusupova joined the Transnational Strand of the Cross-Language Dynamics programme as Durham University’s COFUND Junior Research Fellow. Her project focuses on the impact of digital media on contemporary language revitalisation movements among ethnic minorities in the distinctive context of contemporary Russia's increasingly authoritarian and nationalising statehood. As part of her work, she convened the symposium Nationalism, Ethnicity and Cultural Diversity in the Digital Age (Durham, 14-15 March 2019) and designed the cross-faculty course Nation-building and Identity Politics in Contemporary Russia: Policy Analysis, which she taught to Durham undergraduates during the academic years 2017-18 and 2018-19.