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Bondarenko
Dmitri M.

Dr. of History, Associate member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Professor, RAS Professor

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Scientific Interests

Historical and anthropological theory of socio-cultural transformations; socio-cultural and political anthropology; pre-industrial societies; modern problems of cultural development and interaction (national, ethno-racial, religious aspects); cultures and history of African peoples; African diasporas.

Education

2015: Professor (Global Problems and International Relations) from the Russian Academy of Sciences.
2007: Full Professor (Ethnology) from the Russian State University for the Humanities and the Lomonosov Moscow State University.
2000: D.Sc. (General History and Anthropology) from the Institute for African Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia.
1993: Ph.D. (General History and Anthropology) from the Institute for African Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia.
1990: M.A. cum laude (General History, Anthropology, Education, and English) from the Chair of Ethnology, School of History, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, USSR.

Academic Experiece

Date: December 2024 to present. Employer: Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia. Positions: Vice-Director for Research, Chair of the Department of Anthropology of the East, Principal Research Fellow.
Date: February 2018 to present. Employer: International Center of Anthropology of the HSE University (National Research University “Higher School of Economics”), Moscow, Russia. Position: Director.
Date: June – December 2014. Employer: Center of Fundamental Studies of the National Research University “Higher School of Economics”, Moscow, Russia. Position: Principal Research Fellow.
Date: July – August 2006. Host: Max Planck Institute of History, Goettingen, Germany. Position: Visiting Scholar.
Date: November 2005 – December 2012. Employer: Institute for Innovative Education Strategies, Department of Political Anthropology and Ethnocultural Education, Moscow, Russia. Position: Leading Research Fellow.
Date: May – June 2005. Host: Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, Paris, France. Position: Visiting Scholar.
Date: July 2003. Host: Max Planck Institute of History, Goettingen, Germany. Position: Visiting Scholar.
Date: December 1993 to May 1994. Host: Program of African Studies, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA. Position: Visiting Scholar.
Date: August 1990 – December 2024. Employer: Institute for African Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia. Positions: Principal Research Fellow (October 2024 – December 2024), Vice-Director for Research (April 2008 – September 2024), Chair of the Center of History and Cultural Anthropology (February – March 2008), Chair of the Department of Cultural Anthropology (January 1999 – January 2008), Senior Research Fellow (January 1996 – January 1999), Research Fellow (September 1992 - January 1996), Junior Research Fellow (August 1990 - September 1992).

Teaching

Date: January 2019 – June 2024. Employer: School of History and School of Philosophy and Culture Studies of the Faculty for the Humanities of the HSE University (National Research University “Higher School of Economics”), Moscow, Russia. Courses: Political Anthropology, History of Anthropological Thought
Date: February – June 2011, February 2012 – April 2012, November – December 2014. Employer: Institute for African Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia. Courses (for graduate students and junior researchers): “Tradition” and “Contemporaneity” in Sub-Saharan African Cultures, Political Anthropology, Introduction to African Studies.
Date: November – December 2004. Employer: Higher Institute of Educational Sciences of Angola of the University Agostinho Neto, Luanda – Sumbe. Course: Historical Anthropology of Africa South of the Sahara.
Date: from September 1998 to present. Employer: Institute of Anthropology and Ethnology of the Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow, Russia. Courses: Introduction to Social (Cultural) Anthropology, History of Social (Cultural) Anthropology, Theoretical Social (Cultural) Anthropology, Political Anthropology, History and Anthropology of Africa, Pre-colonial African Cultures, Colonial African Cultures, Post-colonial African Cultures.
Date: September 1996 - June 1998, September 2001 – January 2002; April 2014 – June 2015. Employer: School of History, Political Science and Law of Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow, Russia. Courses: Political Anthropology, Anthropology of Archaic Societies, Early Forms of Political Organization, Man/Woman - Society - Authority in History, Evolution of Social Institutions.
Date: February 1990 - December 1992. Employer: Institute of Asian and African Studies of Lomonosov Moscow University, Moscow, USSR/Russia. Courses: History of Africa, Ethnography of Africa, History of Civilizations Theories.

Main publications

  1. Post-colonial Nations in Historical and Cultural Context. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2023. 354 P. (The same in Russian: Post-colonial Nations in Historical and Cultural Context. Moscow: LRC Publishing House, 2022. 400 P.).
  2. On Pathways to the Complex Society: The Case of the Bini (West Africa). Etnografia. 2024, № 4 (26). P. 6-39.
  3. Cultural Complexity in the Post-colonial Era and Prospects of Nation-building in the Global South and the Global North. In R. Ruffino (ed.). Abitare le diversità: Culture e complessità nuove. Colle di Val d’Elsa: Fondazione Intercultura, 2024. P. 331-372.
  4. Principles and Forms of Organization of Societies as Systems of Institutions (The “Conceptual Frame” of This Book). In D.M. Bondarenko, G.V. Aleksandrov (eds.). Principles of Sociocultural Organization: Historical Contexts of Interaction. Moscow: LRC Publishing House, 2024. P. 7-47.
  5. Principles of Sociocultural Organization: Historical Contexts of Interaction. Moscow: LRC Publishing House, 2024. 372 P. (in co-operation).
  6. Black Heritage: Africans and Their Descendants in Historical Memory of the USA. Moscow: Institute for African Studies Press, 2024. 256 P.
  7. International Russia-Tanzania Conference “The Place of Africa in the World: The Past and the Present”. Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, 1 – 3 March 2024. Book of Abstracts. Moscow: Institute for African Studies Press, 2024. 200 P.

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