Veronika Kostenko
- Associate Professor:HSE Campus in St. Petersburg / Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Area Studies / Department of Sociology
- Veronika Kostenko has been at HSE University since 2010.
Education and Degrees
- 2017
Candidate of Sciences* (PhD)
HSE University - 2013
Doctoral programme in Social processes and institutions
European University in St. Petersburg, Department of Political Science and Sociology - 2009
Degree in Cross-Cultural Communications
Saint Petersburg State University, Linguistics
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.
Continuing education / Professional retraining / Internships / Study abroad experience
- August, 2018 - 7th LCSR Summer School "Bayesian Approach in Social Science in R" (H.Kröger)
- August, 2017 - CERGE-EI Teaching Excellence Program for Tutoring in English (HSE-SPb)
- July, 2015 - Introduction to LaTex (Coursera MOOC by HSE)
- August, 2014 - Utrecht Summer School "Missing Data", Utrecht, the Netherlands
- June - July, 2014 - LCSR Summer School "Categorical Data Analysis", St.Petersburg, Russia
- August, 2013 - LCSR Summer School "Multilevel Confirmatory Factor Analysis & Multilevel Structural Equation Modeling"; St.Petersburg, Russia
- June – July, 2013 - ICPSR, University of Michigan, USA (courses on Maximum Likelihood Estimation; Methodological Issues in Quantitative Research on Race and Ethnicity; Data Visualisation)
- September – November, 2012. Carnegie Visiting Scholar at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
- August, 2012 - Utrecht Summer School "Applied Multivariate Analysis", Utrecht, the Netherlands
- July, 2012 - LCSR Summer School "Causal Models and Structural Equations", St.Petersburg, Russia
- June - July, 2012 - SESL Summer Fieldwork in Moscow rural region
- June, 2012 - International Summer School on Social Network Analysis (SESL, HSE), St.Petersburg, Russia
- August, 2011 - LCSR Summer School "Multilevel Analysis in Comparative Studies", St.Petersburg, Russia
Scientific interests
- Intersectionality; multiple inequalities (racial, ethnic, post-colonial, gender, health, sexual)
- Gender attitudes
- Gender equality issues in the Middle East and in Central Asia
- Migration studies, values and attitudes of migrants
- Comparative research, quantitative methods, survey data analysis
- Migrant children at school
- Political and social relations in the Middle East, ethnoconfessional issues in Lebanon
- History and Sociology of Science
Courses (2021/2022)
- Applied Research on Inequalities: Race, Gender, Migration and Ethnicity (Postgraduate course’s programme; 2 year, 1 semester)Eng
- Past Courses
Courses (2020/2021)
- Applied Research on Inequalities: Race, Gender, Migration and Ethnicity (Postgraduate course’s programme; 2 year, 1 semester)Rus
- Applied Studies of Inequalities (Master’s programme; Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Area Studies; 2 year, 2 module)Eng
Courses (2019/2020)
- Applied Research on Inequalities: Race, Gender, Migration and Ethnicity (Postgraduate course’s programme; 2 year, 1 semester)Eng
- Applied Studies of Inequalities (Master’s programme; Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Area Studies; 2 year, 2 module)Eng
Courses (2018/2019)
- Applied Research on Inequalities: Race, Gender, Migration and Ethnicity (Master’s programme; Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Area Studies; 1 year, 3 module)Eng
- Applied Research on Inequalities: Race, Gender, Migration and Ethnicity (Postgraduate course’s programme; 2 year, 1 semester)Eng
- Applied Research on Inequalities: Race, Gender, Migration and Ethnicity (Master’s programme; Faculty of Social Sciences; 2 year, 3 module)Eng
- Applied Research on Inequalities: Race, Gender, Migration and Ethnicity (Master’s programme; Faculty of Social Sciences; 1 year, 3 module)Eng
- Methodology of Contemporary Asian Studies (Master’s programme; Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Area Studies; 1 year, 1-4 module)Eng
- Research Seminar “Methods of Analytical Sociology” (Master’s programme; Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Area Studies; 1 year, 1-4 module)Rus
Courses (2017/2018)
Publications29
- Article Sofia Lopatina, Kostenko V., Ponarin E. Pro-life vs. pro-choice in a resurgent nation: The case of post-Soviet Armenia // Frontiers in Political Science. 2022. Vol. 4. Article 932492. doi
- Chapter Kostenko V. Gender Attitudes of Muslim Migrants Compared to Europeans and Public in Sending Societies: A Multilevel Approach, in: Muslim Minorities and the Refugee Crisis in Europe. Warsz. : SGH (Warsaw School of Economics) Publishing House, 2019. P. 37-50.
- Article Костенко В. В., Понарин Э. Д., Стребкова О. Н. Влияние исторических процессов на гендерные установки в странах Арабского Востока // Восток. Афро-азиатские общества: история и современность. 2019. № 2. С. 126-146. doi
- Article Костенко В. В. Интерсекциональность в количественных социальных науках: эссе // Мониторинг общественного мнения: Экономические и социальные перемены. 2019. № 6 . С. 382-393. doi
- Article Лопатина С. Л., Костенко В. В., Понарин Э. Д. Национальная гордость и ценности индивидуального выбора в десяти постсоветских странах // Журнал социологии и социальной антропологии. 2019. Т. XXII. № 4. С. 166-201. doi
- Article Костенко В. В., Новик А. А. Отношение к соседям другой расы: кейсы Албании и Косово // Этнография. 2019. № 2(4). С. 100-127. doi
- Preprint Veronica Kostenko, Ponarin E., Shteiwi M., Strebkova O. Historical Legacies and Gender Attitudes in the Middle East / Economic Research Forum. Series J1 "ERF Working Paper Series". 2017. No. 1105.
- Article Костенко В. В. Гендерные установки мигрантов–мусульман в Западной Европе: многоуровневый неиерархический анализ // Мониторинг общественного мнения: Экономические и социальные перемены. 2017. № 1. С. 97-120.
- Article Костенко В. В. Проблемы гендерного неравенства на Арабском Востоке // Азия и Африка сегодня. 2017. № 9 (722). С. 61-66.
- Article Стребкова О. Н., Понарин Э. Д., Костенко В. В. Проверка измерительной инвариантности: случай порядковых переменных (на примере гендерного эгалитаризма в арабских странах) // Социология: методология, методы, математическое моделирование. 2017. № 44. С. 7-36.
- Article Veronica Kostenko, Pavel Kuzmichev, Ponarin E. Attitudes towards Gender Equality and Perception of Democracy in the Arab World // Democratization. 2016. Vol. 23. No. 5. P. 862-891. doi
- Article Лопатина С. Л., Костенко В. В., Понарин Э. Д. Дело не в исламе: отношение к абортам, разводам и добрачному сексу в девяти постсоветских государствах. // Журнал социологии и социальной антропологии. 2016. Т. XIX. № 3. С. 95-115.
- Chapter Костенко В. В., Кузьмичёв П., Понарин Э. Д. Отношение к гендерному равноправию и к демократии на Арабском Востоке // В кн.: XV апрельская международная научная конференция по проблемам развития экономики и общества: в 4-х книгах / Отв. ред.: Е. Г. Ясин. Кн. 3. М. : Издательский дом НИУ ВШЭ, 2015. С. 350-359.
- Book Карабчук Т. С., Костенко В. В., Зеликова Ю. А., Бейшеналы Н., Кечетова А. П., Закотянский Д. В., Сальникова Д. В., Перебоев В. С. Трудовая миграция и трудоемкие отрасли в Кыргызстане и Таджикистане: возможности для человеческого развития в Центральной Азии. СПб. : Центр интеграционных исследований ЕАБР, 2015.
- Preprint Kostenko V., Kuzmichev P., Ponarin E. Attitudes Towards Gender Equality and Perception of Democracy in the Arab World. / NRU Higher School of Economics. Series SOC "Sociology". 2014. No. 50.
- Chapter Kostenko V. Gender Attitudes of Muslim Migrants in Western and Northern Europe, in: International SGEM conference on Social Sciences and Arts, 2014. Conference Proceedings. Vol. 2: SGEM Conference on Political Sciences, Law, Finance, Economics and Tourism. Issue 1: Political Sciences and Law. Sofia : STEF92 Technology Ltd., 2014. Ch. 22. P. 155-164.
- Article Костенко В. В. Гендерные установки мигрантов - мусульман в Северной и Западной Европе // Социологические исследования. 2014. № 11. С. 52-59.
- Book Карабчук Т. С., Костенко В. В., Алмакаева А. М., Соболева Н. Э., Жюстен А. Мобильность пенсий в рамках Евразийского экономического союза и СНГ Вып. 24. СПб. : Колорит, 2014.
- Article Костенко В. В., Кузьмичев П. А., Понарин Э. Д. Не та демократия. Архаизация ценностей на Ближнем Востоке после распада СССР. // Russia in Global Affairs. 2014. Т. 12. № 4. С. 182-191.
- Article Костенко В. В., Яковлев Г. А. Состав авторов журнала «Социологические исследования», 1975 - 1982 гг. // Социологические исследования. 2014. № 9. С. 123-130.
- Article Костенко В. В. Теории миграции: от ассимиляции к транснационализму. // Журнал социологии и социальной антропологии. 2014. Т. XVII. № 3. С. 62-76.
- Article Алмакаева А. М., Костенко В. В. Трансграничный перевод пенсионных прав в странах Евразийского экономического сообщества и Европейского союза // Экономическая социология. 2014. Т. 15. № 4. С. 53-67.
- Article Ponarin E., Kostenko V. Attitude to Gender Equality in the Arab East // Journal of Siberian Federal University. Series: Humanities & Social Sciences. 2013. Vol. 6. No. 12. P. 1838-1846.
- Book Александров Д. А., Понарин Э. Д., Костенко В. В. Кавказ и Средняя Азия. Курс лекций для социальных работников. Предназначен для помощи в практической работе с мигрантами из Средней Азии и Кавказа Ч. 2. М. : Международная Организация Труда, 2012.
- Book Александров Д. А., Понарин Э. Д., Костенко В. В. Кавказ и Средняя Азия. Учебный курс для социальных работников. Общие положения о географии, культуре и религии мигрантов из Средней Азии и Кавказа Ч. 1. М. : Международная Организация Труда, 2012.
- Chapter Костенко В. В. Ливан // В кн.: Политические системы современных государств / Отв. ред.: М. Г. Миронюк; под общ. ред.: А. В. Торкунов; науч. ред.: А. Ю. Мельвиль. Т. 2: Азия. М. : Аспект Пресс, 2012. С. 301-316.
- Book Александров Д. А., Иванюшина В. А., Костенко В. В., Савельева С. С., Тенишева К. А. Положение детей мигрантов в Санкт-Петербурге (краткая версия). М. : Детский фонд ООН - ЮНИСЕФ, 2012.
- Book Александров Д. А., Иванюшина В. А., Костенко В. В., Савельева С. С., Тенишева К. А. Положение детей мигрантов в Санкт-Петербурге (полная версия). М. : Детский фонд ООН - ЮНИСЕФ, 2012.
- Chapter Хван И. С., Сукиасян Е. А., Остапенко М. Е., Николаенко Ю. В., Костенко В. В., Горгадзе А. А. Этнические сообщества в социальных сетях // В кн.: Избранные тезисы докладов III Студенческой социологической межвузовской конференции / Отв. ред.: М. Р. Демин. СПб. : НИУ ВШЭ (Санкт-Петербург), 2012. С. 14-19.
Conferences
- 2019GENDER STUDIES 2019 CONFERENCE: ON VIOLENCE (Хельсинки). Presentation: Gender attitudes of Muslim migrants compared to Europeans and MENA citizens: intersectional approach
- XX Апрельская международная научная конференция по проблемам развития экономики и общества (Москва). Presentation: National Pride and individual-choice attitudes in 10 post-Soviet Countries
- St. Petersburg International Conference on Inequality and Diversity (IDC) (Санкт-Петербург). Presentation: Intersectionality in Cross-National Studies of Inequality
- I Symposium of the European Scholars on Middle East Quantitative Research (Nijmegen). Presentation: WVS vs Arab Barometer data
- 8th International Conference of the European Survey Research Association (ESRA) (Загреб). Presentation: Values and Attitudes of People in MENA Measured by the WVS Survey vs Arab Barometer
- International workshop “Social Inequality and Value Polarization: A Cross-Country Perspective” (Санкт-Петербург). Presentation: “Dynamics of Nationalism and Pro-Choice Values Relations: the Cases of Post-Soviet and Balkan States”
- EVS International Workshop "Comparing Values in (post-)crisis Europe" (Тбилиси). Presentation: Dynamics of Nationalism and pro-Choice Values: the Cases of post-Soviet and Balkan States
- 2019 ASEEES Summer Convention (Загреб). Presentation: National Pride and Individual Choice Attitudes in 10 post-Soviet Countries
- 2018Muslim minorities and the refugee crisis in Europe. Narratives and policy responses (Варшава). Presentation: Migrants on the flight to Europe. Do they bring their gender attutides with them?
- XIX April International Academic Conference On Economic and Social Development (Moscow). Presentation: Attitudes towards commercial sex, HIV incidence, and gender attitudes in cross-country perspective
- Соседства в Европе: культуры, границы, коммуникативные практики. II Всероссийский симпозиум по антропологической / этнологической европеистике. (Санкт-Петербург). Presentation: Мигранты - мусульмане как соседи. Сравнительный анализ европейских стран
- LCSR International Workshop “Values and Socio-Political Processes: A Quantitative Perspective” (Санкт-Петербург). Presentation: Attitudes of Migrants in Europe and New Ways of Theorizing Them on Quantitative Survey Data
- 2017The 7th Conference of the European Survey Research Association (ESRA) (Лиссабон). Presentation: Muslim Migrants on the Flight to Europe. Multilevel cross-classified analysis of migrant gender attitudes compared to sending and receiving societies
- Гендерные исследования в современном российском востоковедении (Москва). Presentation: Подходы к изучению гендерного неравенства на Арабском Востоке
- XVIII Международная апрельская конференция "Модернизация экономики и общества" (Москва). Presentation: Which Came First, Institutions or Values? The Case of the Same-Sex-Marriage Laws
- 2016
The Political Economy of Contemporary Arab Societies (Бейрут). Presentation: Transforming Gender Attitudes in the Middle East
- WAPOR 2016 Regional Conference "Survey Research and the Study of Social and Cultural Change" (Москва). Presentation: Attitudes to Female Labor and Employment Rights among Migrants in Western Europe compared to European Locals and to Publics of Sending Societies. Non-Nested Multilevel Analysis
- 2015Методологический рабочий семинар ЛССИ - EBES (Анталия). Presentation: Attitudes to Female Labor and Employment Rights among Migrants in Western Europe compared to European Locals and to Publics of Sending Societies. Non-Nested Multilevel Analysis
- 2014Values, Solidarity and Generations (Бильбао). Presentation: Tracing the Rise of Gender Equality in 47 European Countries (comparing 1999 and 2008). Values or institutions are to blame for?
- наука будущего (science of the future) (Санкт Петербург). Presentation: Gender Attitudes in the Arab Muslim countries: Comparative Analysis of the Arab Barometer Data
- The SGEM Conference on SOCIAL SCIENCES and ARTS (Albena). Presentation: Attitudes towards gender equality and perception of democracy in the Arab world
- Четвертая международная летняя школа ЛССИ «Анализ категориальных данных». (Зеленогорск). Presentation: Patterns of Gender Inequality in 47 European Countries (evidence from the EVS data)
- 4ый международный рабочий семинар ЛССИ НИУ ВШЭ (Москва). Presentation: Patterns of Gender Inequality in 47 European Countries (evidence from the EVS data)
- 201311th Conference of the European Sociological Association (Турин). Presentation: Gender Attitudes of Muslim Migrants in Western and Northern Europe
- European Social Survey Conference: Trans-national evidence (Дублин). Presentation: Gender Attitudes of Muslim Migrants in Western and Northern Europe
- International Conference on Gender and Migration, ICGM (Стамбул). Presentation: “Gender Attitudes of Muslim Migrants in Western and Northern Europe”
- Третий международный рабочий семинар ЛССИ (Санкт-Петербург). Presentation: Values of Migrants and Local Population in Europe: Comparative Study
- Third International Research Conference of LCSR (Moscow). Presentation: Patterns of Gender Inequality in 47 European Countries (evidence from the EVS data)
- Religious Nationalism as Concept and Practice (Санкт-Петербург). Presentation: Gender attitudes in the Arab world: Islam, Nationalism, modernization
- 2012VI Всероссийская Конференция, посвященная памяти первого декана факультета Социологии Крыштановского А.О «Современная социология - современной России» (Москва). Presentation: Коллективное видеоинтервью как метод изучения жизненных стратегий детей мигрантов
- Рабочая конференция ЛССИ в рамках второй летней школы "Моделирование структурными уравнениями" (Санкт-Петербург). Presentation: Values and Gender Attitudes of Migrants and Local Population in Europe.
- Second International Research Workshop of LCSR (Санкт-Петербург). Presentation: Ценности мигрантов и местного населения в Европе: сравнительное исследование
- Second International Annual Conference of the LCSR: “Social Change in Cross-National Perspective” (Москва). Presentation: Values of Migrants and Local Population in Europe: Comparative Study
- Ислам в условиях глобализации: российский и мировой контексты (Казань). Presentation: Отношение к гендерному равноправию на в странах Арабского Востока
- IV Всероссийский социологический конгресс Российского общества социологов «Социология и общество: глобальные вызовы и региональное развитие» (Уфа). Presentation: Ценности мигрантов и местного населения в Европе: сравнительный анализ
- 2011Сравнительная социология в количественной перспективе (Москва). Presentation: Values and Aspirations of Migrant Children in Comparison with Migrants in Europe
- Рабочая конференция ЛССИ в рамках первой летней школы "Многоуровневый анализ в сравнительных исследованиях" (Пушкин). Presentation: Gender Attitudes of Muslim Migrants in Europe
Grants
2016 - 2017. Economic Research Forum grant for studying gender attitudes in the Arab countries.
2019 - 2021. Russian Science Fund grant "Social foundations of the "conservative turn" in European and Russian politics (on WVS data)" # 19-18-00446 headed by Christian Welzel.
Projects
- Historical Legacies and Trajectories of Gender Attitudes in the Arab Countries. (collective project with Eduard Ponarin, Olga Strebkova, and Musa Shteiwi). 2016 -
- Which Came First, Institutions or Values? The Case of the Same-Sex-Marriage Laws. (collective project with Boris Sokolov and Olesya Volchenko). 2016 -
- Attitudes to Female Labor Rights among Migrants in Western Europe compared to European Locals and to Publics of Sending Societies. Non-Nested Multilevel Analysis. 2015 -
- Sexual Liberalization in Central Asia – Marker of Modernization or the Choice of the Poorest? (collective project with Sofia Lopatina and Eduard Ponarin). 2014 – 2017.
- Patterns of Gender Inequality in 47 European Countries (evidence from the EVS data). 2013 - 2014.
- Pension Transfers in former USSR countries (collective project with Tatiana Karabchuk, Anna Almakaeva and Natalia Soboleva for Eurasian Development Bank). 2013.
- Gender Attitudes and Democratization in the Middle East (collective project with Eduard Ponarin and Pavel Kuzmichev). 2012-2015.
- Gender Attitudes of Muslim Migrants in Western and Northern Europe. 2011-2013.
- Integration of Migrants in Various Cultural and Institutional Contexts. 2011-2012.
- Caucasus and Middle Asia. Educational materials and a course of lectures for Social Workers in the Field of Migration (collective project with Daniel Alexandrov and Eduard Ponarin for International Labor Organization). 2011.
- Migrant Children in St.Petersburg (collective project with Daniel Alexandrov, Valeria Ivanushina, Svetlana Savelieva and Ksenia Tenisheva for UNICEF). 2011-2012.
- Values and Aspirations of Migrant Children. 2011-2012.
- Parallel St.Petersburg. 2010.
A Proud ‘No’
Why egalitarian values don’t catch on in post-Soviet countries
Final day of the International workshop “Social Inequality and Value Polarization: A Cross-Country Perspective”
In this article we describe the final day of the International workshop “Social Inequality and Polarization Value: A Cross-Country Perspective”.
Patriarchy in Europe
How Muslim Immigrants’ Gender Attitudes Are Changing.
Veronica Kostenko has defended her PhD thesis
LCSR’s research fellow Veronica Kostenko has defended her PhD thesis. Congratulations!
‘Conducting Comparative Research Requires One to Leave a Comfortable Environment’
Students of the international Master’s programme in Comparative Social Research, which opened in 2014, spent their first semester studying at the Moscow campus of the Higher School of Economics; the second semester was spent in St. Petersburg. Another six months will be devoted to study abroad. Mobility in the educational process is an important principle of the programme that allows future sociologists to better understand social reality. The English-language programme turned out to of interest not only to Russian students, but also to graduates of prestigious foreign universities.
7%
is the share that migrant employees make up in Russia’s total employed population.