Irina Kretser

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:

• Kretser, I. (2019). Care Across Generations. Solidarity and Sacrifice in Transnational Families, by K.E. Yarris, Kristin E. Social Anthropology, 27(2), 401-402.

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