1. PERSONAL CONTACT DETAILS
Name: Leokadia M. Drobizheva
Current Job Title: Full professor and Director, Institute of Sociology,
Russian
Academy of Sciences.
Institution/Employer: Institute of Sociology, Russian Academy
of Sciences
Tel: (7095) 7190940 (user) E-Mail: leoka@isras.rssi.ru
2. BIOGRAPHY
(a) Academic Qualifications
Diploma (B.A.), Fuculty of History, Moscow State University, 1956.
Candidate of Sciences (M.A.), Institute of History, USSR Academy of
Sciences, 1963.
Topic: Innovations in the Economic Structure during the 1920's.
Doctor of Sciences (Ph.D.), Institute of Ethnography, USSR Academy
of Sciences, 1981
Topic: Interethnic Relations in the USSR
(b) Professional Qualifications
1982 – Institute of Ethnography.
(c) Short career resume
2000 till present – Director of the Institute of Sociology,
Russian Academy of Sciences;
1990-2000 – Head, Department of the Sociology of Interethnic Relations,
Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Russian Academy of Sciences;
1982-1990 – Deputy Director, Institute of Ethnology, USSR Academy of
Sciences;
1969-1982 – Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Ethnology, USSR Academy
of Sciences;
1963-1969 – Junior Research Fellow, Institute of History, USSR Academy
of Sciences.
3. ADMINISTRATIVE RESPONSIBILITIES
(a) List responsibilities currently held
Director, Institute of Sociology, Russian Academy of Sciences;
Professor, Moscow Higher School for Sociological and Economic Sciences.
Open Society Institute Expert, Moscow Branch.
(b) List major responsibilities held during the last 3 years
2000 till present – Director, Institute of Sociology,
Russian Academy of Sciences;
1990-2000 – Head, Department of Sociology of Interethnic Relations,
Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Russian Academy of Sciences.
4. MEMBERSHIP OF PROFESSIONAL BODIES
Chairman, Committee for Ethnic Sociology, Russian Sociological
Society.
5. CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS AND EXPERTISE
Projects sponsored by McArthur Foundation:
Ethnic Identity, Ethnic Conflictology, Post-Communist Nationalism,
Inequality of Ethnic groups, Ethnic Identity and Conflict Resolution (1993-95);
Ethnic and Administrative Boundaries: Factors of Stability and Conflict
(1996-98);
Social and Economic Inequality of Ethnic Groups, and Problems of Integration
in the Russian Federation (1999-2000)
6. SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Author of 8 books and more than 180 articles.
Books
1999. Ethnosociology. Co-authored with Y. Atutiunian and A. Susokolov;
1996. Democratization and Images of Nationalism in the Russian Federation.
Co-authored with A. Aklaev, V. Koroteeva;
1987. Cultural Diversity Among the Peoples of the USSR. Co-authored
with Y. Arutiunian;
1985. The Union of Soviet People. Co-authored with M. P. Kim;
1981. Interethnic Relations in the USSR. Socio-Historical Essays;
1972. History and Sociology; and others.
Editor of the following books:
Conflicting Ethnicity and Ethnic Conflicts, M. 1994;
Values and Symbols of Ethnic Consciousness, M. 1994;
Ethnic Conflicts in the Post-Soviet World, M.E. Sharp, England, 1997.
Editor with Katarina Kelleher and Lee Walker.