Kathryn E. Graber

Kathryn Graber is associate professor of Anthropology and Central Eurasian Studies at Indiana University Bloomington. A linguistic and sociocultural anthropologist, she researches minority language politics, multilingualism, mass media, materiality, and intellectual property in Russia and Mongolia. She is the author of Mixed Messages: Mediating Native Belonging in Asian Russia (Cornell University Press, 2020) and co-editor of Storytelling as Narrative Practice: Ethnographic Approaches to the Tales We Tell (Brill, 2019). She is currently working on a book on the Mongolian cashmere industry. Dr. Graber’s research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the US Department of Education, and the Social Science Research Council, among others. She is also an award-winning teacher.