Alexandra Maloney, Assistant Professor of Russian, Department of Languages, University of Alaska Anchorage; and Professor, Department of Foreign Languages, Tomsk State Pedagogical University (Russia)

Alexandra A. Maloney (Kim) is a term Assistant Professor of Russian at the University of Alaska Anchorage and a Professor in the Department of Foreign Languages at Tomsk State Pedagogical University in Russia.  Her research interests focus on the indigenous languages and cultures of Siberia.  She has conducted nine seasons of fieldwork among the Selkups, Khantys, and Evenkis of Siberia, and has worked with the Cree in Canada.  In 2002 she participated in the project “A Pilot Study for Exploring Cultural Relationships between Asian and North American Cultures” under the leadership of Dine College, Navajo Nation and in affiliation with the University of Alaska Anchorage.  She received her Ph.D from Tartu University in Estonia in 1988, and in March 1999 she defended her “doctoral dissertation” (in Russian terminology) on “The Selkup Lexicon as an Ethnolinguistic Source: The Problem of the Reconstruction of a World Picture.” Ms. Maloney has participated in numerous international conferences in Russia, Canada, U.S.A., Finland, Germany, France, Norway, and Scotland.  She has published over 100 articles, abstracts, and books.  Her most recent publications include “Mythology of the Selkups,” Tomsk, 2004, Tomsk State University/ Nauka (with co-authors) and  “Selkup-Ket parallels in ritual and spiritual terminology” in Languages and Prehistory of Central Siberia, John Benjamins, 2004.

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