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Dmitri M. Bondarenko

  • Dmitri M. Bondarenko has been at HSE University since 2018.

Education, Degrees and Academic Titles

  • 2016
    Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences
  • 2007
    Professor
  • 2000

    Doctor of Sciences* in World History
    Institute of Africa of the Russian Academy of Sciences
    Thesis Title: Pre-imperial Benin: Formation and Evolution of the Socio-political Institutions System

  • 1994

    Candidate of Sciences* (PhD) in World History
    Institute of Africa of the Russian Academy of Sciences
    Thesis Title: Benin on the Eve of the First Contacts with Europeans. Evolutionary and Civilizational Peculiarities

  • 1990

    Degree
    Lomonosov Moscow State University

* Candidate of Sciences
According to the International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED) 2011, Candidate of Sciences belongs to ISCED level 8 - "doctoral or equivalent", together with PhD, DPhil, D.Lit, D.Sc, LL.D, Doctorate or similar. Candidate of Sciences allows its holders to reach the level of the Associate Professor.
* Doctor of Sciences
A post-doctoral degree called Doctor of Sciences is given to reflect second advanced research qualifications or higher doctorates in ISCED 2011.

Awards and Accomplishments

MAIN PROFESSIONAL AWARDS:

Date: 2023. Award: Russian Academy of Sciences Nikolay Miklukho Maklay prize “for outstanding contribution to Ethnology and Anthropology” (for the monograph Post-colonial Nations in Historical and Cultural Context).

Date: 2021. Award: Institute for African Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences’ first prize for the best Institute’s publication of the year (for the monograph African Americans and American Africans: Migration, Histories, Race and Identities.)

Date: 2019. Award: Letter of gratitude from the President of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Date: 2017. Award: Diploma of the contest of the Association of Book Publishers “Best Books of the Year-2016” in the nomination “The Best Book in the Humanities” (for the monograph “Cultural Complexity of Modern Nations” as a part of the author’s collective).

Date: 2009. Award: Grant of the Foundation for National Science Support for outstanding young D.Sc. holders.

Date: 2008. Award: Grant of the Foundation for National Science Support for outstanding young D.Sc. holders.

Date: 1999. Award: Letter of gratitude from the President of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Date: 1997. Award: European Academy prize for young CIS scholars (for the monograph Benin on the Eve of the First Contacts with Europeans: Personality. Society. Authority.)

Date: 1996. Award: Institute for African Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences’ first prize for the best Institute’s publication of the year (for the monograph Benin on the Eve of the First Contacts with Europeans: Personality. Society. Authority.)

STATE AWARD:

Date: 1997. Award: Medal "In Commemoration of the 850th Anniversary of Moscow"

STATE HONORARY TITLE

Date: 2015. Title: Labor Veteran

Responsibilities

Methodic, theoretical, and organizational heading of the International Center of Anthropology, personal participation in its research and teaching activities.

Courses (2020/2021)

Courses (2019/2020)

Academic mentorship

I was the mentor of the authors of more than ten BA graduation papers, three MA theses, and two PhD dissertations defended at the Russian State Univesity for the Humanities and the Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences. At present, I am supervising a MA thesis at the Russian State Univesity for the Humanities and two PhD dissertations at the National Research University Higher School of Economics and the Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Publications

For full list of publications see CV on my personal webpage.

20231

Book Bondarenko D. M. Post-Colonial Nations in Historical and Cultural Context / Пер. с рус. L., NY, Lanham, Boulder : Lexington Books, 2023.

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20111

Chapter Bondarenko D. M., Grinin L. E., Korotayev A. Social Evolution: Alternatives and Variations (Introduction)., in: Evolution: Cosmic, Biological, and Social / Ed. by L. E. Grinin, C. Robert L., A. Korotayev, F. Spier. Volgograd : Uchitel, 2011. P. 212-250.

20101

Chapter Бондаренко Д. М., Гринин Л. Е., Коротаев А. В. Социальная эволюция: альтернативы и варианты. // В кн.: Эволюция: проблемы и дискуссии / Под общ. ред.: Л. Е. Гринин, А. В. Коротаев, А. В. Марков. М. : ЛКИ, 2010. С. 120-159.

20021

Article Bondarenko D. M., Grinin L. E., Korotayev A. Alternative Pathways of Social Evolution. // Social Evolution & History. 2002. Vol. 1. No. 1. P. 54-79.

Conferences

  • For information prior to 2018, see CV on the personal webpage.

  • 2024
    Russia-Tanzania Conference “The Place of Africa in the World: The Past and the Present” (Дар-эс-Салам). Presentation: Neotraditionalism and Nation Building in Postcolonial States
  • 2023
    Научный семинар «Культура и общество» (Москва). Presentation: Антирасистское движение, память о Гражданской войне и американская нация во второй половине 2010-х – начале 2020-х годов: по материалам полевых исследований
  • Ежегодная научная конференция УНЦСА РГГУ "Экспедиции и творческие командировки" (Москва). Presentation: «Черное наследие», память о Гражданской войне и американская нация во второй половине 2010-х - начале 2020-х гг.: по материалам полевых исследований
  • Антропология и история: взгляд на человека и общество (Москва (онлайн)). Presentation: Историческая память и современная общественно-политическая борьба: Гражданская война 1861–1865 гг. и антирасистское движение в США в конце 2010-х – начале 2020-х гг.
  • XXXII Международный конгресс по источниковедению и историогра- фии стран Азии и Африки: Россия и Восток. К 300-летию СПбГУ (Санкт-Петербург). Presentation: Постколониальная Африка: историческая память — нациестроительство — неотрадиционализм

  • Post-Colonial Africa: Historical and Contemporary Realities. The Toyin Falola @ 70 Conference (Найроби). Presentation: Nation Building in Post-Colonial Africa: Tanzania, Zambia, and Uganda Compared

  • XV Конгресс Ассоциации антропологов и этнологов России (Санкт-Петербург). Presentation: Память о Гражданской войне и метаморфозы американской нации в контексте антирасистского движения второй половины 2010-х – начала 2020-х гг.
  • 19th International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences - World Anthropological Union (IUAES - WAU) World Anthropology Congress 2023 "Marginalities, Uncertainties, and World Anthropologies: Enlivening Past and Envisioning Future" (Нью-Дели). Presentation: Constructing Postcolonial Identities by Conversion to "the True Faith": Orthodox Old Believers in Uganda and Spiritual Anti-globalism in Contemporary Africa
  • Теоретический семинар «Перспективы применения системного подхода в гуманитарных науках» (Владивосток). Presentation: Общество как система социальных институтов и базовые принципы его организации
  • “Transitions”. 2023 American Anthropological Association / Canadian Anthropology Society Annual Meeting (Торонто). Presentation: Nation building in post-colonial states: historical past, present-day realities, and possible future. The cases of Tanzania, Zambia, and Uganda compared
  • 2022
    48th Annual Conference of the Archaeological Society of South Carolina (ASSC) (Columbia). Presentation: Russian-American Collaboration on African American History in South Carolina and the Eastern US
  • заседание бюро Историко-филологического отделения Российской академии наук (Москва). Presentation: Формирование наций в постколониальной Африке южнее Сахары: историко-культурный фактор
  • Leadership and Power in Africa in the Past and the Present: Studies in Russia, Tanzania and Beyond (Дар-эс-Салам). Presentation: Nation-building in a Multicultural World: Three African Countries Compared
  • «Структуры большой длительности» (Москва (онлайн)). Presentation: Община и общинность как структура и организационный принцип большой длительности в истории Африки южнее Сахары
  • Россия-Африка: от устной истории к постколониальному нарративу (Ярославль). Presentation: Становление наций в Танзании, Замбии и Уганде: сравнительный анализ
  • The International Academic Forum in China 2022 “Civilizations Amid Profound Changes: China and the World” (Пекин). Presentation: Nation-Building Amid Profound Changes: Three Post-colonial African States Compared
  • 2021

    Американский семинар Музея антропологии и этнографии, Института этнологии и антропологии и Санкт-Петербургского института истории РАН (Москва - Санкт Петербург (онлайн)). Presentation: Дискурсы репрезентации Гражданской войны и отмены рабства на Севере и Юге США

  • Семинар «Визуальные методы исследования человека в контексте культуры» (Москва (онлайн)). Presentation: Взросление в Уганде
  • Гуманитарные чтения РГГУ-2021 (Москва). Presentation: Презентация научного проекта «Историческая память как фактор эволюции социально-политических систем (Субсахарская Африка и Мезоамерика)»
  • гостевая лекция (Нижний Новгород). Presentation: Историческая память как фактор взаимодействия африкано-американцев и современных мигрантов из Африки в США
  • гостевая лекция (Нижний Новгород). Presentation: Репрезентации рабства и Гражданской войны 1861–1865 гг. на Севере и Юге США: расхождение исторических дискурсов в современном культурно-политическом контексте
  • Ежегодная научная конференция УНЦСА РГГУ (Москва). Presentation: К культурной антропологии Соединенных Штатов Америки: репрезентации рабства и Гражданской войны 1861–1865 гг. на Севере и Юге
  • VII Международные Зверевские чтения по американистике «Колониальный и постколониальный дискурс в американской литературе, культуре и политике: pro et contra» (Москва). Presentation: Постколониальный дискурс и репрезентации рабства и Гражданской войны 1861–1865 гг. на Севере и Юге США
  • 1. 15th International Conference of Africanists “Destinies of Africa in the Modern World” (Москва (онлайн)). Presentation: The Past Matters: Memory of the Slave Trade and Relationship between African Americans and African Migrants in the USA
  • XIV Конгресс антропологов и этнологов России (Томск). Presentation: «Культура отрицания» и борьба с расизмом: Гражданская война и отмена рабства в культурной памяти в США

  • Десятое заседание Межвузовского научно-дискуссионного клуба «XXI век» (Москва (онлайн)). Presentation: Место антропологии в системе гуманитарного знания
  • “Truth and Responsibility”. American Anthropological Association 2021 Annual Meeting (Baltimore & online). Presentation: To Cultural Anthropology of the USA: Postcolonial Discourse and Representations of the Civil War, Slavery, and Its Abolition in the US North and South

  • Всероссийская научная конференция с международным участием «Международный (бес)порядок: исторические, политические, экономические, гуманитарные и социально-культурные аспекты» (Самара (онлайн)). Presentation: Постколониальные нации и национальные государства в эпоху мультикультурализма
  • Культура и общество (Москва). Presentation: Историко-культурный контекст формирования наций в постколониальной Африке: сравнительный анализ Танзании, Замбии и Уганды
  • 2020
    Africa’s Past, Present and Future (Commemorating the 60th Anniversary of the “Year of Africa”) (Москва). Presentation: History of the Slave Trade and Mutual Perceptions of African Migrants and African Americans in the USA
  • Вещественные источники в музее: собирание, хранение, изучение, репрезентация (Москва). Presentation: Конфликт исторических дискурсов Севера и Юга США и репрезентация рабовладельческого прошлого в музее-усадьбе Брэттонсвилл
  • Африка: постколониальный дискурс (Ярославль (онлайн)). Presentation: Формирование постколониальных наций: теория и современные реалии
  • 16th Biennial Conference of the European Association of Social Anthropologists “New Anthropological Horizons in and beyond Europe”. July 2020, Lisbon, Portugal (Лиссабон). Presentation: Globalization, Postcolonialism, and the True Faith: Orthodox Old Believers in Uganda and Spiritual Anti-globalism in Contemporary Africa
  • Race, Racism, Antiracism, Humanity (Филадельфия). Presentation: African Migrants in Post-Soviet Moscow
  • Семинар Международного центра антропологии НИУ ВШЭ “Homo sapiens historicus” (Москва). Presentation: Конфликт исторических дискурсов Севера и Юга США и визуальные репрезентации рабства и Гражданской войны 1861–1865 гг.
  • Africa: History and Results of Decolonization (For the 60th Anniversary of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples) (Дар-эс-Салам). Presentation: Spiritual Anti-globalism in Postcolonial Africa: The Case of Orthodox Old Believers in Uganda
  • “The Hour of Decision: Power, Persistence, Purpose, and Possibility in African Studies”. 63rd African Studies Association Annual Meeting. November 19–21, 2020, Washington, DC, USA (онлайн) (Вашингтон). Presentation: The Power of the Past: How Memory of the Slave Trade Influences the Relationship between African Migrants and African Americans in the USA
  • Научный семинар Центра истории и культурной антропологии Института Африки РАН «Культура и общество» (Москва (онлайн)). Presentation: Репрезентации рабства и освобождения африкано-американцев на Севере и Юге США: расхождение дискурсов
  • 2019
    Общество и культура (Москва). Presentation: Старообрядцы Уганды: второй сезон полевого исследования
  • научный семинар Африканского клуба ИСАА МГУ (Москва). Presentation: Современная африканская религиозность (на примере православных старообрядцев Уганды)
  • First International Social Scientists’ Conference “State-Building in Africa: Prospects and Challenges” (Дар-эс-Салам). Presentation: Postcolonial Nation-building and Historical Memory in the Time of Multiculturalism
  • First International Social Scientists’ Conference “State-Building in Africa: Prospects and Challenges” (Дар-эс-Салам). Presentation: African Migrants in the USA: History as a Weapon in Struggle against Marginalizing
  • Экспедиции и инновации (Москва). Presentation: Традиционный песенный и танцевальный фольклор народов Уганды: опыт фиксации в ходе изучения угандийских старообрядцев
  • VI Международные Зверевские чтения по американистике «Коллективная память: власть про-шлого в социокультурной жизни Америки» (Москва). Presentation: Непреходящее прошлое: роль памяти о рабстве и колониализме во взаимоотношениях африкано-американцев и африканских мигрантов в США
  • Warfare, Environment, Social Inequality, and Pro-Sociability Biennial Conference (Севилья). Presentation: The “Affluent” and the “Struggling”: The Rise of Social Hierarchies among African Migrants in Moscow at Transition from the Soviet Union to the Russian Federation
  • Особенности современной африканской религиозности (Москва). Presentation: Угандийское старообрядчество и своеобразие современной религиозности в субсахарской Африке
  • American Anthropological Association and Canadian Anthropology Society Annual Meeting (Ванкувер). Presentation: Too Little Space under the Sun: History as a Weapon in African Migrants’ Struggle for Social Space in the USA
  • Гостевая лекция по поводу 80-летия кафедры этнологии исторического факультета МГУ им. М.В. Ломоносова (Москва). Presentation: Субсахарская Африка: социальная антропология как ключ к пониманию социокультурной истории
  • «Глобальный мир и Африка: каким мы видим будущее». Научная сессия, посвященная 60-летию Института Африки РАН. (Москва). Presentation: Постколониальный мир: формирование наций в современную эпоху
  • 2018
    Общество и культура (Москва). Presentation: Российская антропологическая экспедиция в Уганде: первые результаты
  • Семинар "Homo sapiens historicus" (Москва). Presentation: Культурные процессы в современной Африке (по результатам первого сезона полевого исследования старообрядцев Уганды)
  • Международная научная конференция молодых ученых "'Глобальный Юг' в полицентричном миропорядке" (Москва). Presentation: Постколониальный мир: историческое своеобразие и формирование наций в условиях глобализации (Пленарный доклад приглашенного участника)
  • Способы мысли, пути говорения (Москва). Presentation: Формирование наций и историческая память в постколониальных государствах в эпоху мультикультурализма: примеры Танзании и Замбии
  • 18th International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences World Congress “World (of) En-counters. The Past, Present and Future of Anthropological Knowledge” (Флорианополис). Presentation: The Other Blacks: History as a Weapon in African Struggle against Marginalizing in the USA

  • The International Big History Association Forth Conference “Big History, Big Future: A Cosmic Perspective” (Вилланова). Presentation: History and the Process Paradigm
  • Staying –Moving – Settling. 15th Biennial Conference of the European Association of Social Anthropol-ogists (Стокгольм). Presentation: Class Matters: Social Distinctions and Life Strategies among African Migrants in Moscow

  • Исторический нарратив: прошлое, настоящее, будущее (к 2500-летию со дня рождения Геродота Галикарнасского и 2000-летию со дня смерти Тита Ливия) (Москва). Presentation: Субсахарская Африка: социальная антропология как ключ к пониманию социокультурной истории

  • Itineraires des élites africaines dans le monde. Réseaux et transferts entre diasporas et "petites sociétés" (Бухарест). Presentation: Intellectuals and the Rest: Class Division and Life Strategies among Moscow Africans
  • 117th American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting (Сан-Хосе). Presentation: Resisting and Adapting to the Challenges of Globalization through Faith in Africa: Ugandan Orthodox Christian Old Believers’ “Conservative” Response
  • 61st African Studies Association Annual Meeting (Атланта). Presentation: Resisting Globalization Spiritually: The Case of Orthodox Christian Old Believers in Uganda
  • Guest lecture at the Department of Sociology, Criminology, and Anthropology of Winthrop University (Рок-Хилл). Presentation: The Past Has Not Passed: The Role of Historic Memory in Shaping the Relations between African Americans and African Immigrants Residing in the USA
  • Guest lecture at Busitema University (Буситема). Presentation: Nation-building in Africa in the Time of Intensive Globalization

Grants

Grants received individually or as team leader; those received as team member are not included:

Purpose: Research

Dates: 1993–1994. Grant-giving institution: The American Council of Teachers of Russian

Dates: 2003, 2006. Grant-giving institution: Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science

Date: 2005. Grant-giving institution: “Maison des Sciences de l’Homme” Foundation

Dates: 2007, 2012. Grant-giving institution: Russian Academy of Sciences

Dates: 2015–2017. Grant-giving institution: Russian Science Foundation

Dates: 2018–2020. Grant-giving institution: Russian Science Foundation

Dates: 2020–2022. Grant-giving institution: Russian Foundation for Basic Research

Purpose: Field Research

Dates: 2005, 2006–2008, 2009, 2013, 2014–2016, 2017–2019. Grant-giving institution: Russian Foundation for Humanities

Purpose: Travel for participation in academic events

Date: 2007. Grant-giving institution: Russian Foundation for Humanities

Dates: 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016. Grant-giving institution: Wenner Gren Foundation via European Association of Social Anthropologists

Editorial board membership

  • I am also an Editorial Board Member of Civilizational Dimension book series (Institute for African Studies Press, Moscow, Russia) since 2000, an International Editorial Advisory Board Member of Creative Horizons: New Experiments in Collaborative Imagination, Border-Crossing Transformations and Planetary Realizations book series (Studera Press, New Delhi, India) since 2007, an Advisory Board Member of  The Library of World History book series (Nauka Publishing, Moscow, Russia) since 2016, an Editorial Board Member of The Role of Museums, Libraries, and Archives in Informational Support of Historical Research Series (Eterna Publishing, Moscow, Russia) since 2017, and an Editorial Board Member of Anthem Africology Series (Anthem Press, London, UK) since 2021

  • 2023: Member of the Editorial Council (председатель / Chairperson редсовета), Аякс. Исследования по истории, археологии, культуре.

  • 2022: Member of the Editorial Council, History HSE.

  • 2021: Member of the Editorial Board, Вестник Брянского государственного университета.

  • 2021: Member of the Editorial Board, Социальные и гуманитарные науки. Отечественная и зарубежная литература. Серия 5: История.

  • 2021: Member of the Editorial Council, Уфимский археологический вестник (Ufa Archaeological Herald).

  • 2020: Member of the Editorial Council, The Journal of US-Africa Studies.

  • 2020: Member of the Editorial Board, Вестник антропологии.

  • 2019: Member of the Editorial Board, Новая и новейшая история.

  • 2018: Member of the Editorial Council, Africana Studia.

  • 2018: Member of the Editorial Council, Конфликтология.

  • 2018: Member of the Editorial Board, Традиционная культура.

  • 2017: Member of the Editorial Council, Исторический журнал: научные исследования.

  • 2017: Member of the Editorial Board, Социальные и гуманитарные науки. Зарубежная литература. Сер. 9, Востоковедение и африканистика: РЖ.

  • 2015: Member of the Editorial Board, Asian Journal of Indigenous Studies.

  • 2015: Member of the Editorial Board, Вестник Санкт-Петербургского университета. Серия 13: Востоковедение и африканистика.

  • 2015: Member of the Editorial Board, Ученые записки Института Африки РАН.

  • 2014: Member of the Editorial Council, Australasian Review of African Studies.

  • 2014: Member of the Editorial Board, Kivukoni Journal (Kivukoni Journal ).

  • 2013: Member of the Editorial Council, Modern Africa: Politics, History and Society.

  • 2013: Member of the Editorial Board, Umewaen: Journal of Benin and Edo Studies.

  • 2011: Member of the Editorial Council, Africa Review.

  • 2007: Member of the Editorial Council, Век глобализации.

  • 2003: Member of the Editorial Council, История и современность.

  • 2001: Editor-in-chief (также сооснователь / also co-founder), Social Evolution and History.

Professional Associations Membership

Date of joining: June 2017. Association: Cultural Evolution Society.

Date of joining: June 2016. Association: The African Studies Association of Australasia and the Pacific.

Date of joining: March 2016. Association: The International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences.

Date of joining: January 2009. Association: American Anthropological Association.

Date of joining: February 2007. Association: African Studies Association.

Date of joining: February 2006. Association: International Economic History Congress.

Date of joining: June 2005. Association: Societé des Africanistes.

Date of joining: June 1997. Association: Association of Anthropologists and Ethnologists of Russia.

Date of joining: March 1996. Association: European Association of Social Anthropologists.

Academic Business Trips Abroad (Fieldwork, Scholarships, Conferences, Guest Lectures, Etc.)

1992: Ukraine

1993–1994: USA

1994: Kyrgyzstan, India

1997: Egypt

1998: Germany

1999: USA (twice)

2000: USA, Poland

2001: Nigeria

2002: Tanzania, Denmark

2003: Tanzania, Egypt, Germany, Slovenia

2004: Lebanon, Austria, Angola

2005: Tanzania, France, Lebanon, Nigeria

2006: Germany, Finland, UK, Nigeria

2007: South Africa, Switzerland, Tanzania

2008: Slovenia, Benin, USA

2009: Rwanda, USA

2010: USA (twice), Zambia, Ireland

2011: Tanzania, USA, Canada

2012: Germany, Spain, France, Benin, Togo, Ghana, USA

2013: China, USA

2014: Estonia, USA

2015: USA (twice), China

2016: Croatia, Italy, USA, Australia

2017: USA (twice), Spain, Uganda

2018: Morocco, Brazil, Sweden, Romania, Uganda, USA

2019: Tanzania, Spain, Poland, Canada

2020: USA

2022: Tanzania, USA

2023: Kenya

Employment history

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE:

Date: February 2018 to present. Employer: International Center of Anthropology of the 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 to present. Employer: Institute for African Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia. Positions: Institute Vice-Director for Research (April 2008 to present), 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 EXPERIENCE:

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: Center of Social Anthropology of 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, Social (Cultural) Anthropology of Africa, History 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.


Fieldwork

2003, 2005, 2007 - Tanzania

2006 - Nigeria

2006–2008, 2012 - Russia

2008 - Benin

2009 - Rwanda

2010 - Zambia

2013–2015, 2022 - USA

2017–2018 - Uganda

Socio-economic Integration of African Migrants in Russia

Isaac Olumayowa Oni successfully had his preliminary defense of his research project on 25th May, 2022 on the platform of the International Laboratory for Social Integration Research.