Klezmer Institute welcomes Anya Shatilova for ASEEES Internship.
Ms. Shatilova will survey newly-digitized archival resources related to early twentieth-century Jewish ethnography in the Edward Blank YIVO Vilna Online Collections Project to create a finding aid for some of these materials and to translate selected documents.
Klezmer Institute is delighted to announce that Anya Shatilova has been awarded an Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) internship with the Klezmer Institute for the summer of 2022. Ms. Shatilova is a Ph.D. candidate in the Ethnomusicology program at Wesleyan University (Middletown, CT, United States). Her research interests include various musical and sound practices in contemporary and Imperial Russia as well as the dissemination of Russian traditional instrumental music outside the country. Anya received a BM in Music Performance from St. Petersburg State University of Culture and Arts (Russia), MM in Musicology from the New England Conservatory of Music (Boston, MA, United States), and MA in Ethnomusicology from Wesleyan University (Middletown, CT, United States). Her recent article “Listening to Ethnic Identity Online: Digitally Mediated Finno-Ugric Traditions in St. Petersburg” appeared in the special issue of the journal Digital Icons: Studies in Russian, Eurasian and Central European New Media.
Anya’s work on ethnic identity through music in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries dovetails nicely with interest in the An-ski Expeditions that has sprung up around the Kiselgof-Makonovetsky Digital Manuscript Project. In this internship project, Anya will conduct a preliminary survey of newly digitized documents available through the Edward Blank YIVO Vilna Online Collections Project. In particular, she will investigate papers contained in the Jewish Music Societies Collection, the Baron Horace de Gunzburg Papers, and the records of the YIVO Ethnographic Committee with the primary goal of identifying material that might be relevant to KMDMP. As part of the work Anya will do preliminary work on creating finding aids on these three collections. Time permitting, she will translate selected documents. In the fall of 2022, Anya discuss her survey work in the Edward Blank collections in relation to her dissertation project.
We would like to thank ASEEES for funding this project and are delighted to work with Ms. Shatilova this summer!
Read Anya’s article Listening to Ethnic Identity Online: Digitally Mediated Finno-Ugric Music Traditions in St. Petersburg at the Studies in Russian, Eurasian and Central European New Media website.
