Senior Research Fellow ,

Dozent (Assistant Professor),

Centre for Typological and Semiotic Folklore Studies,

Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities,

Russian State University for the Humanities;
www.rsuh.ru , +7495250668

Visiting Scholar (till Dec. 2008) at  Institut Forschungsstelle Osteuropa, Universität Bremen, Germany

Coordinator of the research project "Folklore And Postfolklore"

www.ruthenia.ru/folklore

Book series editor: "Anthropology/Folklore " (Objedinennoje Gumanitarnoje Izdatelstvo)
www.ogi.ru The list of the books is available at http:// http://www.ruthenia.ru/folklore/books2.htm

Russia, 125 267 Moscow,

Russian State University for the Humanities

Miusskaya sq. 6.

(495) 2506668 (office)

(095)2505109 (fax)  

28359, Bremen

Institut Forschungsstelle Osteuropa,

Klagenfurter strasse, 3

Universität Bremen, Deutschland

(until Dec. 15, 2008)

field of research

Folklore Studies and Anthropology

Subfields :

(i) Russian Folklore:

Origin of new Russian folklore in the Soviet era;

origin of jokes (anecdotes);

anti-Stalin folklore

(ii) Folklore and ethnography of Siberia, Northern and Central Asia:

Comparative studies of Siberia, Asia, and North America;

Mongolian traditional folklore;

Current state of Mongolian folklore and mythology;

shaman legends and narratives;

shamanism and witchcraft in today's Mongolia

Languages

English, Mongolian

References

Prof. James Bailey, Professor Emeritus of Slavic Languages,
University of Wisconsin-Madison , jobailey@facstaff.wisc.edu

Prof. Boris A. Uspenskij,

Istituto 'L'Orientale', Napoli, Italy. [University 'L'Orientale'], Member of Austrian Academy of Sciences,  Wien fedoruspenskij@hotmail.com

Prof. Andrei L. Zorin,

Professor of Russian Language, Fellow, New College of Modern Languages At Oxford University

andrei.zorin@new.ox.ac.uk

Prof. Sergej U. Nekludov,

Director, Centre of Typological and Semiotics Folklore Studies, Russian State University for the Humanities serg-nekl@mtu-net.ru

Prof., Dr.Yury E. Berezkin,

Head of the Department of the Americas, Museum of Anthropology and Ethnology (Kunstkamera), Russian Academy of Science, European Institute in St. Petersburg.

berezkin1@gmail.com

Awards and Grants

2002, 2003: Recipient, Russian Foundation for Basic Research, Grant for  young scholars

2004, Feb.-April: Recipient, research and travel grant from the Ford Foundation (i) to visit the 33-th Annual Meeting of the Society for Cross-Cultural Research, San Jose, CA, and (ii) to visit the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ for collaboration with the IAS Members.

2005-2007: Participant, the Dutch-Russian project NVO-RFBR 05-06-89000 ā 'The Origin Of Russian Avant-garde'

2005-2007: Project participant, Russian Foundation for Basic Research 06-06-80-420ā 'Area  distribution of semantic elements of oral traditions (based on the materials of East Slavs and Ethnic groups of Siberia)'

2006-2008: Recipient, grant of INTAS 05-1000008-7922 'Reconstruction of prehistoric Eurasian mythological motif complexes and their most ancient distribution in connection with genetic data''

2006-2008: Recipient, Grant of the Russian Scientific Foundation for the Humanities # 06-04-00598a ' ‘Russians' through  Russian eyes'

2006-2007 : Participant, grant of Russian Scientific Foundation for the Humanities with the Mongolian Academy of Science for field work in Mongolia # 06-01-91916 e/g

field work experience

1999 : participant, linguistic expedition to Russian North

2001 : participant, archeological dig (Paleolithic cave)

August, 2006: Russian-Mongolian Folklore expedition to Central District of Mongolia

August-September, 2007 : Russian-Mongolian Folklore expedition to North-West of Mongolia

July-August, 2008: Russian-Mongolian Folklore expedition to South-East of Mongolia