Russian director of the Centre for German and European Studies
Dean of the Faculty of Sociology, St. Petersburg State University
Degree:
- PhD in Philosophy (1984)
- Doctor of Sociology (1998)
- Professor (1999)
Research areas:
- Ethnic studies
- Social/cultural anthropology
- Intercultutral communication
Foreign languages:
English
Education:
- 1974-1980 Leningrad State University, Faculty of Philosophy
- 1980-1983 Leningrad State University, Faculty of Philosophy, Ph.D. in Philosophy
Current position and employment:
- 2013-present Dean of the Faculty of Sociology, St. Petersburg State Universit
- 2008-2013 Pro-Rector for Scientific Work, St. Petersburg State University
- 2004-present Director of the Centre for German and European Studies (St. Petersburg State University - Bielefeld University)
- 2005-2010 Head of the Department of Comparative Sociology, St. Petersburg State University
- 2000 - 2010 Dean of the Faculty of Sociology, St. Petersburg State University
- 1995 - 2004 Senior Lecturer, Professor, Head of the Department of Cultural Anthropology and Ethnic Sociology of the Faculty of Sociology, St. Petersburg State University
- 1991 - 1995 Director of the Centre for Humanitarian Studies and Social Prognoses, St. Petersburg State University
- 1988 - 1991 Senior Researcher, Head of the Laboratory of Ethnic and Historical Sociology, Deputy Director of Research at the Research Institute for Complex Social Studies, Leningrad State University
Social activities:
- Chairman of the Scientific and Methodological Council on Sociology of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation
- Chairman of the Council for the Defense of Doctoral and Candidate Theses at St. Petersburg State University
- Chairman of the M.M. Kovalevsky Russian Sociological Society
- Vice-President of the Russian Sociological Association
- Deputy Chairman of the Expert Council of the St. Petersburg Government Programme "Tolerance"
- Member of the International Sociological Association (ISA).