Melissa Chakars is an associate professor of history at Saint Joseph’s University. She is the author of The Socialist Way of Life in Siberia: Transformation in Buryatia (Central European University Press, 2014), and has published numerous articles on topics about indigenous peoples, media, gender, Buddhism.

Melissa Chakars is an associate professor of history at Saint Joseph’s University. She is the author of The Socialist Way of Life in Siberia: Transformation in Buryatia (Central European University Press, 2014), and has published numerous articles on topics about indigenous peoples, media, gender, Buddhism.

Melissa Chakars is an associate professor of history at Saint Joseph’s University. She is the author of The Socialist Way of Life in Siberia: Transformation in Buryatia (Central European University Press, 2014), and has published numerous articles on topics about indigenous peoples, media, gender, Buddhism.