Maria Bulakh
- Deputy Head: Faculty of Humanities / Institute for Oriental and Classical Studies / Centre for South Arabian Studies
- Associate Professor, Senior Research Fellow: Faculty of Humanities / Institute for Oriental and Classical Studies
- Programme Academic Supervisor: Ethiopia and the Arab World
- Maria Bulakh has been at HSE University since 2017.
- Language Proficiency
- English
- German
- Contacts
- Phone:
+7 (495) 772-95-90
23162 - Address: 21/4 Staraya Basmannaya Ulitsa, Building 3, room Л-201
- SPIN-RSCI: 8542-7689
- ORCID: 0000-0001-5490-6674
- ResearcherID: R-7032-2017
- Scopus AuthorID: 57127229300
- Google Scholar
- Office hours
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- Blogs
- Academia.edu
- Supervisor
- I. Smirnov
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Education and Degrees
Russian State University for the Humanities
According to the International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED) 2011, Candidate of Sciences belongs to ISCED level 8 - "doctoral or equivalent", together with PhD, DPhil, D.Lit, D.Sc, LL.D, Doctorate or similar. Candidate of Sciences allows its holders to reach the level of the Associate Professor.
Awards and Accomplishments
Best Teacher — 2021–2024
Best Academic Supervisor in the category ‘Student Engagement in Inter-Campus and Inter-Faculty Activities’ — 2023
Courses (2024/2025)
- Amharic (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study Asian and African Studies; 5 year, 1-3 module)Rus
- Ethiopian literature (Optional course (faculty); 4 module)Eng
- Old Amharic (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study Asian and African Studies; 5 year, 1, 2 module)Eng
- The New Testament and the Reception of the Bible in the Christian and Jewish Traditions (Minor; Faculty of Humanities)Rus
- Tigrinya (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study Asian and African Studies; 5 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
- Past Courses
Courses (2023/2024)
- Amharic (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study Asian and African Studies; 4 year, 1-4 module)Rus
- Christian Literature of Ethiopia (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study Asian and African Studies; 3 year, 1 module)Rus
- History of Ethiopian and Eritrean literature (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study Asian and African Studies; 4 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
- Introduction to Christian Ethiopian Culture (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study Asian and African Studies; 3 year, 1 module)Rus
- Tigrinya (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study Asian and African Studies; 4 year, 1-4 module)Rus
Courses (2022/2023)
- Amharic (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study Asian and African Studies; 3 year, 1-4 module)Rus
- Comparative Semitic Studies (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study Asian and African Studies; 4 year, 1-4 module)Eng
- Comparative Study of Ethiosemitic Languages (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study Asian and African Studies; 3 year, 3, 4 module)Eng
- Epigraphic Geez (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study Asian and African Studies; 3 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
- Geez (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study Asian and African Studies; 3 year, 1-4 module)Rus
- History of Ethiopian and Eritrean literature (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study Asian and African Studies; 3 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
Courses (2021/2022)
- Amharic (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study Asian and African Studies; 2 year, 1-4 module)Rus
- Geez (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study Asian and African Studies; 2 year, 1-4 module)Rus
- History of Ethiopian and Eritrean literature (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study Asian and African Studies; 2 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
- Introduction to the Study of Christian Orient (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study Asian and African Studies; 1 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
Courses (2020/2021)
- A Grammar of a non (Standard Average) European Language (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study Fundamental and Applied Linguistics; 1 year, 2-4 module)Eng
- Geez (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study Asian and African Studies; 1 year, 1-4 module)Rus
- Introduction to Ethiopian Studies (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study Asian and African Studies; 1 year, 1-4 module)Rus
Employment history
In 2003–2004 worked as a junior research fellow at the Institute for Information Transmission Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences
In 2008–2010 worked as assistant professor of the Department of History and Philology of the Ancient Middle East, Institute for Oriental and Classical Studies, Russian State University for the Humanities.
From 2010 on – Assistant Professor at the Centre of Ancient Middle Eastern Studies, Institute for Oriental and Classical Studies, Russian State University for the Humanities.
From 2017 on – Associate Professor, Leading Research Fellow at IOCS HSE.
HSE Creates Centre for South Arabian Studies
The new centre will operate as part of the Institute of Oriental and Classical Studies (IOCS) at the HSE Faculty of Humanities, and its flagship project will focus on the study of the language and oral folklore of Socotra Island. The centre is a trilateral international partnership between HSE University, the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and a consortium of leading universities in the UAE. Read on to find out about what South Arabian studies involves and what research HSE scholars do in this field.
First Book in Soqotri Published in Conjunction with HSE IOCS
November 25, 2021 marked the publishing of a corpus of Soqotri folklore texts. Translated into Classical Arabic, the texts are accompanied by a brief introduction explaining the basic principles of the Soqotri writing system, which is based on the Arabic orthography. The authors of the book are Soqotri native speakers Ahmed Isa al-Daarhi, Isa Gumaan al-Daarhi, and Maysoon Mohammed Aldarhi. It was published by Maria Bulakh and Leonid Kogan under the editorship of Prof. Vitaly Naumkin, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The publication was supported by the UAE Embassy in Moscow.
‘Our Students Were Lucky to Talk to Top Experts’
University of Hamburg professors Denis Nosnitsin and Magdalena Krzyzanowska delivered a series of online lectures dedicated to the study of Ethiopian manuscripts. The course, which was developed for first-year students of the Institute for Oriental and Classical Studies, was held as part of the Digital Professors project. In an interview with the HSE news service, the professors talked about their research, teaching approaches, and impressions of lectures.