Maria Bulakh

Deputy Head: Faculty of Humanities / Institute for Oriental and Classical Studies / Centre for South Arabian Studies
Associate Professor: Faculty of Humanities / Institute for Oriental and Classical Studies
Senior Research Fellow: Faculty of Humanities / Laboratory for Middle Eastern and North African Languages and Culture
Programme Academic Supervisor: Ethiopia and the Arab World

Maria Bulakh has been at HSE University since 2017.

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Education and Degrees

2005

Candidate of Sciences* (PhD)
Russian State University for the Humanities

1999

Degree
Russian State University for the Humanities

* Candidate of Sciences
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.

Professional Interests

Semitic studies Ethiosemitic Languages

Awards and Accomplishments

Best Teacher — 2021–2024
Best Academic Supervisor in the category ‘Student Engagement in Inter-Campus Courses’ — 2023

Courses (2024/2025)

Amharic (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 5 year, 1-3 module)Rus
Old Amharic (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 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; 3, 4 module)Rus
Tigrinya (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 5 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
Past Courses

Courses (2023/2024)

Amharic (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 4 year, 1-4 module)Rus
Christian Literature of Ethiopia (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 3 year, 1 module)Rus
History of Ethiopian and Eritrean literature (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 4 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
Introduction to Christian Ethiopian Culture (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 3 year, 1 module)Rus
Tigrinya (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 4 year, 1-4 module)Rus

Courses (2022/2023)

Amharic (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 3 year, 1-4 module)Rus
Comparative Semitic Studies (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 4 year, 1-4 module)Eng
Comparative Study of Ethiosemitic Languages (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 3 year, 3, 4 module)Eng
Epigraphic Geez (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 3 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
Geez (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 3 year, 1-4 module)Rus
History of Ethiopian and Eritrean literature (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 3 year, 3, 4 module)Rus

Courses (2021/2022)

Amharic (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 2 year, 1-4 module)Rus
Geez (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 2 year, 1-4 module)Rus
History of Ethiopian and Eritrean literature (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 2 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
Introduction to the Study of Christian Orient (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 1, 2 module)Rus

Courses (2020/2021)

A Grammar of a non (Standard Average) European Language (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 2-4 module)Eng
Geez (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 1-4 module)Rus
Introduction to Ethiopian Studies (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 1-4 module)Rus

Timetable for today

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Editorial board membership

2022: Member of the Editorial Council , Aethiopica.

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.

Feb

2024

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.

Dec

2021

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.

Oct

2021

‘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.