Dilyara Suleymanova is a Ph.D. candidate at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Zurich, Switzerland. She graduated from the Department of History at Kazan State University (Tatarstan, Russia) and received her M.A. degree in Nationalism Studies at the Central European University (Budapest). Her thesis examined the post-Soviet policies with regard to Tatar language revitalisation. At present, she is writing her dissertation on education politics and identity construction in the post-Soviet Republic of Tatarstan. Her research interests include education and language politics, identity politics, nationalism, and ethnicity, with a regional focus on post-Soviet Russia and Tatarstan in particular.
