Natalia Volvach awarded for her doctoral thesis

Natalia Volvach defended her doctoral thesis in 2023 at the Center for Research on Bilingualism at Stockholm University.

She is now awarded the prize for outstanding scientific achievement 2023 for her doctoral thesis From Words to Voids: Absencing and Haunting in Crimean Semiotic Landscapes

Extract from the award motivation:

“Natalia Volvach, who studies linguistic and non-linguistic signs in different environments of the Crimean peninsula, makes an important contribution to sociolinguistic theory and to the ethnographic research on semiotic landscapes. The thesis, which is well written and convincing, raises important theoretical questions about the role of language in creating meaning in times of conflict.”