Research Output per year
Personal profile
Description of research and teaching
My research interests comprise questions related to the revival of heritage languages, language ecology, verbal art and its relations to non-human animals and other beings, domestication, and health.
Since 2008 I have been working with Veps, a Finno-Ugric minority, in northwestern Russia. While my initial interest regarded the promotion of Vepsian heritage language, I later augmented my focus to verbal art and healing practices and human-animals relations as expressed in language.
In 2015 I also began working with Saami in the Kola peninsula, Russia. Here I investigate domestication, reindeer herding practices, and health.
At the moment (2018), I am working on three main projects:
1. Links between (indigenous) ways of speaking and environmental change
2. Language responsibility
3. Indigenous conceptualization of sustainability
Education/Academic qualification
Anthropology, PhD, University of Aberdeen
2009 → 2012
Anthropology, MRes, University of Aberdeen
2008 → 2009
Foreign Languages and Literatures, 'Laurea' (BA, MA equivalent), Univ Pisa, University of Pisa
1993 → 1999
Keywords
- 6160 Other humanities
- Indigenous studies
- 5143 Social anthropology
- Linguistic Anthropology
- Environmental Anthropology
- Medical anthropology
- 6121 Languages
- Vepsian
- Russian
International and National Collaboration
Publications and projects within past five years.
Selected Publications 2010 2021
Promoting Heritage Language in Northwest Russia
Siragusa, L., 23 Oct 2017, New York and London: Routledge. 246 p. (Routledge Studies in Linguisitc Anthropology; vol. 1)Research output: Book/Report › Book › Scientific › peer-review
Selected Projects 2012 2020
Indigenous Cultures and Languages at Helsinki University Humanities Programme
01/09/2017 → 31/08/2020
Project: Research project
Prizes
CASS (College of Arts and Social Sciences), Graduate School, University of Aberdeen, College office, Powis Gate, Aberdeen
Laura Siragusa (Recipient), Sep 2009
Prize: Prizes and awards
CASS (College of Arts and Social Sciences), Graduate School, University of Aberdeen, College office, Powis Gate, Aberdeen
Laura Siragusa (Recipient), Sep 2008
Prize: Prizes and awards
ERC funded project Arctic Domus, University of Aberdeen
Laura Siragusa (Recipient), Jan 2015
Prize: Prizes and awards
ERMOS (Estonian Research Mobility Scheme) grant financed with the support of FP7 Marie Curie COFUND the “People” Programme, University of Tartu
Laura Siragusa (Recipient), 2013
Prize: Prizes and awards
Activities 2009 2019
Assistant to help with Symposium on Year of Indigenous Languages
Laura Siragusa (Participant)May 2019 → Nov 2019
Activity: Other activity types › Prizes and awards - Prizes and awards
The Materiality of Vepsian puheged and vajhed/pakitas
Laura Siragusa (Speaker), Olga Zhukova (Speaker)5 Jun 2018 → 7 Jun 2018
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
Indigenous Languages can Help Us Nurture the Arctic
Laura Siragusa (Speaker)26 Apr 2018 → 27 Apr 2018
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
Vepso-Italian Cooperation
Laura Siragusa (Speaker)25 Jan 2018
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
Paper: The Future is not (only) in humans' hands!
Laura Siragusa (Speaker)12 Feb 2018 → 13 Feb 2018
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
Press / Media
Interview for Alaskan radio station Nordic Native News
03/02/2016
1 item of media coverage
Press/Media: Press / Media
Interview on my work on secrecy for Kodima
01/01/2016
1 item of media coverage
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Presentation of my PhD dissertation at Paginklub
29/04/2013
1 item of media coverage
Press/Media: Press / Media
Participation in a Karelian TV reportage on the work at Paginklub at the Centre for National Cultures in Petrozavodsk
01/10/2012
1 media contribution
Press/Media: Press / Media
Participation in a Karelian and Federal TV reportage on my work with Veps in Sheltozero, Rybreka and Drugaya Reka
01/11/2010
1 item of media coverage
Press/Media: Press / Media