Ivan Peshkov

 Ivan Peshkov received his PhD degree in Development Studies from the Poznań University of Economics, Poland, and his MA in Economic History from the Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland. He is currently an assistant professor at the Institute of Eastern Studies, AMU, Poznań. His current research focuses on politicization of quasi-indigenousness in the Russo-Chinese border areas, frontier biopolitics in Eurasia, the Evenki (in Siberia and China) and memory work in Inner Mongolia and Transbaikalia. He carried out research in the Chinese, Russian, and Mongolian border triangle and investigated the main economic and historical processes that characterize the area.