Bella Bychkova Jordan, Lecturer, Department of Geography and the Environment; and Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies, University of Texas at Austin

Bella B. Jordan received her PhD in Geography from the University of Texas at Austin in 2002, where she has been a lecturer since spring of 2003. Before joining the graduate program in Cultural geography at UT at Austin, she studied economics and linguistics in Moscow. Her research interests include ethnic and historical geography of Siberia, post-Soviet changes in Russian cultural and political landscape, geography of religion and cultural ecology of the circumpolar North and the northern Pacific Rim regions. Her publications appeared in Journal of Cultural Geography, Professional Geographer, and Erkunde. She is also the author of chapters in several geographical textbooks. Her book Siberian Village: Land and Life in the Sakha Republic (Yakutia), co-authored with Terry Jordan-Bychkov, was published in 2001 by the University of Minnesota Press.

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