Celia Emmelhainz

Celia prepared for a career as a librarian before discovering anthropology. For her master’s in anthropology, she quickly immersed herself in research on migration and missionaries in Central Asia, looking into citizenship as a key factor in the migration decisions of Mongolian Kazakhs. She is also interested in the cultural uses of personal names in the United States and Central Asia.

Celia returned to librarianship after graduate school when she found at a job at a university library in Kazakhstan. She currently lives in Astana, Kazakhstan, where she is the head librarian at a private international school. She is studying for an advanced degree in library science, and is interested in developing a project on digital materials for bilingual language learning, targeting the development of a digital Kazakh-English library.