Dr Kristina Jonutyté

Dr Kristina Jonutytė is an anthropologist and a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow with a research project entitled “Minority Russia: Negotiating Racialisation and Belonging at a Time of War”. The focus of this research is on migrants from the Inner Asian regions of Russia who have fled the country to South Korea, Mongolia and beyond in the context of the Russo-Ukrainian war and its reverberations in the region. Kristina’s PhD research was on contemporary urban Buryat Buddhism in Ulan-Ude (2019, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology & Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany). Since then, she has worked at Vilnius University and Vytautas Magnus University. Her book “Between the Buddha and the New Tsar: Urban Religion and Minority Politics at the Asian Borderlands of Russia” is forthcoming (2026) with Cornell University Press. She has published on religion, diverse urban space, and multiethnic politics, among other topics.