Gimbatova Madina Bagavutdinovna
28 July 1969, Makhachkala
Biography, education, career:
In 1998 Madina Gimbatova defended her Candidate Dissertation, titled The Role of Polovets-Kipchak Component in the Formation of the Nogais Ethnos. In 2009 she defended her Doctoral Dissertation, titled Cultural Behaviour and Etiquette of the Nogais in the 19th – early 20th Centuries: Communicative Norms in the Family and in Public. From 2000 she successively occupied the positions of junior researcher, researcher, and senior researcher at the Institute of History, Archaeology, and Ethnography of Dagestan Scientific Centre of RAS.
Areas of expertise: History and ethnography of the peoples of the North and South Caucasus; Family and marriage; history and ethnography of the Nogais