Galina Durinova

Galina Durinova holds a PhD in linguistics and studies the historical semantics of Russian socio-political language in the 18th and 19th centuries. In her doctoral thesis (kandidatskaya, 2015, Lomonosov Moscow State University), she explored the history of the concepts of “citizen” and “society” in the Russian language, in light of the influence of French Enlightenment political concepts.

Her current project focuses on the conceptual history of diversity in the Russian Empire, with an emphasis on the Siberian region. She studies the evolution of political subjectivity within the imperial temporality.