
Associate researcher at the Centre for German and European Studies
Assistant professor at the department of cultural anthropology and ethnic sociology, faculty of sociology, SPSU
Foreign languages:
- English
Research areas:
- Social anthropology
- Anthropology of kinship
- Anthropology of mobility
- Intercultural communication
Education:
- PhD in Sociology (2017). Topic of Ph.D. thesis: Socio-cultural patterns of kinship in a big city (by the example of Saint-Petersburg)
- 2007-2011 Doctoral student, Faculty of Sociology, St. Petersburg State University
- 2002-2007 Faculty of Sociology, St. Petersburg State University, Department of Cultural Anthropology and Ethnic Sociology
Research projects:
- 2018-present Dynamic of sociocultural network structures: Analysis of European creative collectives (supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research)
- 2015-2017 Co-evolution of Knowledge and Communication Networks: Structural Dynamics of Creative Collectives in European Cultural Capitals (supported by the Russian Foundation for Humanities)
- 2011-2013 New Cultural Practices under the Conditions of Globalization: Formation of intercultural competence
- 2009-2010 Local community: methodology and contemporary perspectives in sociology and social anthropology
- 2008-2009 Development of Training “Cultural Assimilator as The Training of Adaptation to the Life in Russian megalopolis (by the Example of St. Petersburg)
Selected publications:
The full CV is available here.
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0585-6169
http://www.researcherid.com/rid/F-7625-2015
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Irina_Kretser
http://spbu.academia.edu/IrinaKretser