On July 15, 2016, the IRTG Diversity's PhD researcher Svetlana Seibel defended her thesis on "'Personal Totems': The Poetics of the Popular in Contemporary Indigenous Popular Culture in North America" (Supervisors: Astrid Fellner, Saarland University / Robert Schwartzwald, Université de Montréal). On the German side of the IRTG, Svetlana Seibel is the second PhD reseacher to defend her thesis, and the IRTG Diversity wholeheartedly congratulates her on her achievement.
For more information on Svetlana Seibel and her research, see: http://irtg-diversity.com/index.php?page=people&relation=doctoral_candidates&person=svetlana_seibel&id=200
For our website entry on a previous IRTG success story, Dave Poitras' defense on July 1, 2016, see http://irtg-diversity.com/index.php?page=retrospect_retrospect-2016&article=185