ABOUT ME

I am a PhD student in Socio-Cultural Anthropology, focusing on the Caucasus for my fieldwork. I am easy-going, considerate, fond of books, trees, mountains, and colorful things. I could be described as energetic, somewhat spontaneous, not particularly picky, and up for a challenge, whether it is for my brain or physical abilities. I enjoy playing music, singing, and making things.

PHILOSOPHY

Becoming an adult is mostly about re-learning how to be a child.

Interests

mountains, books, ethnography, music, singing, traditional polyphony, hiking, swimming, ice cream, all other food, running, languages, camping, decorating spaces, giving haircuts

• books
• singing
• dining
• running
• music
• hiking
• camping
• swimming
• anthropology
• languages
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

Books by: Sebald, Joyce, Bernhard, Kafka, Bulgakov, Lessing, Hasek, Pessoa, Rilke, O'Hara, Music: Georgian Vocal Polyphony, Velvet Underground, David Bowie, Plastic People of the Universe, Bob Dylan, Alice Coltrane, Neil Young etc Movies: everything by Paradjanov, El Topo, Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid, Full Metal Jacket, Easy Rider, Midnight Cowboy, La Pianiste, Toto Le Heros, Heart of a Dog, Stalker, Solaris, High Fidelity, Igby Goes Down, The Royal Tenenbaums etc

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Spent 5 weeks in a tent in the Carpathian mountains in Transylvania doing a backwards kind of archaeology.

Countries I’ve Visited

Armenia, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Canada, Czech Republic, France, Georgia, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Netherlands, New Zealand, Romania, Russian Federation, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Georgia, Russian Federation, United Kingdom, United States