Lina Tsrimova

Born in Nalchik, Kabardino-Balkaria. She completed two master's degrees in Moscow and Paris. Currently based in Paris, in 2021, Lina defended her PhD thesis on the history of the 19th-century colonial wars in the Caucasus at École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS). The thesis focused in particular on the Circassian oral tradition and on how Circassians narrated these wars.