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Denis V. Volkov

  • Denis V. Volkov has been at HSE University since 2019.

Responsibilities

Head of IOCS

Member of the Academic Council of the Faculty of Humanities

Research

Head of CSMECCA (Centre for the Study of the Middle East, the Caucasus and Central Asia) https://iocs.hse.ru/en/csmecca/

Teaching

Research Seminar ‘Middle Eastern History, 20th Century’ (2019)

MA course ‘Muslim Civilisations: Religion and Empires’

BA course ‘Cross-Disciplinary Methodologies in the Study of the Persianate World’

Public course ‘The Persianate World: History, Geography and Civilisation’

Public course ‘Islam’

Education and Degrees

  • 2015

    PhD in Middle Eastern Studies
    University of Manchester
    Thesis Title: Oriental Studies and Foreign Policy: Russian/Soviet ‘Iranology’ and Russo-Iranian relations (1863-1941)

  • 2008

    Degree
    Russian Foreign Trade Academy

  • 1997

    Master's
    Lomonosov Moscow State University

Continuing education / Professional retraining / Internships / Study abroad experience

2005-2008: Russian Foreign Trade Academy (International Econimics)

Awards and Accomplishments

2021 - The ASMEA Grant

2020 — The IRI World Award 'Book of the Year'

2020 — The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences Research Grant

2019 — The ASMEA Grant

2018 — The BIPS (British Institute of Persian Studies) Research Grant

2017 — The BIPS (British Institute of Persian Studies) Research Grant

2014 — The University of Manchester President's Distinguished Achievement Award

2014 — The University of Manchester Faculty of Humanities Distinguished Achievement Award

2013 — I.B. Tauris Prize for Best Paper at Symposia Iranica conference

2012 — The Abdullah Mubarak/BRISMES Scholarship for 2012

International Awards and Grants

2021 - The ASMEA Grant.

2020 - The IRI World Award 'Book of the Year'.

2020 - The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences Research Grant.

2019 - The ASMEA Grant.

2018 - The BIPS (British Institute of Persian Studies) Research Grant.
2017 - The BIPS (British Institute of Persian Studies) Research Grant.
2014 - The University of Manchester President's Distinguished Achievement Award.
2014 - The Uni. of Manchester Faculty of Humanities Distinguished Achievement Award.
2013 - I.B. Tauris Prize for Best Paper at Symposia Iranica conference.
2012 - The Abdullah Mubarak/BRISMES Scholarship for 2012.

Publications17

Conferences

  • 2019

    Twelfth Annual ASMEA Conference Past, Present and Future in the Middle East and Africa (Washington DC). Presentation: Flying Away from the Bolshevik Winter: Soviet Refugees Across the Southern Borders (1917-1946)

  • Workshop: The Iranian Revolution at 40: Source Perspectives and Criticism (St Andrews). Presentation: The Russian Analysis of the 1979 Revolution
  • Workshop: The Iranian Revolution at 40: Source Perspectives and Criticism (St Andrews). Presentation: Bringing Democracy into Persia: One Russian Project for the Separation of Iranian Azerbaijan
  • The Caspian in the History of Early Modern and Modern Eurasia (New Haven). Presentation: Bringing Democracy into Persia: One Russian Project for the Separation of Iranian Azerbaijan

International Awards and Grants

2020 - The IRI World Award 'Book of the Year'.

2020 - The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences Research Grant.

2019 - The ASMEA Grant.

2018 - The BIPS (British Institute of Persian Studies) Research Grant.
2017 - The BIPS (British Institute of Persian Studies) Research Grant.
2014 - The University of Manchester President's Distinguished Achievement Award.
2014 - The Uni. of Manchester Faculty of Humanities Distinguished Achievement Award.
2013 - I.B. Tauris Prize for Best Paper at Symposia Iranica conference.
2012 - The Abdullah Mubarak/BRISMES Scholarship for 2012.

Courses (2022/2023)

Courses (2020/2021)

Projects

Soviet Refugees in the Middle East (1917-1946)


Employment history

2021-2023: Deputy Director, Institute for Oriental and Classical Studies, HSE University

2019-2021: Associate Professor and Leading Research Fellow, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow

2019-2022: Associate Professor, Chair in Theory of Area Studies, MSLU, Moscow
2018-2019: Researcher at the International Institute of Social History (Amsterdam)
2016-2018: Assistant Professor in Middle Eastern History (fixed-term), Uni. of Manchester.
2015-2016: Presidential Post-doctoral Fellow, Université Paris 3 – Sorbonne Nouvelle.
2014-2015: Tutor of Russian, University of Manchester.
2013-2015: Teaching Assistant in ‘The Contemporary Middle East’ and ‘The Politics of National Identity in Post-Communist Russia’, University of Manchester.

2010-2014: PhD student 

2006-2010: Head of Technopromexport Co. in Iran (Tehran)

2004-2006: Expert, Technopromexport Co., Moscow, Russia

1998-2004: Expert, Business Development, Technopromexport Co., Tehran, Iran

1995-1998: Persian (Farsi) Interpreter/Translator, Technopromexport Co., Tehran, Iran

HSE Creates Centre for South Arabian Studies

The new centre will operate as part of the Institute of Oriental and Classical Studies (IOCS) at the HSE Faculty of Humanities, and its flagship project will focus on the study of the language and oral folklore of Socotra Island. The centre is a trilateral international partnership between HSE University, the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and a consortium of leading universities in the UAE. Read on to find out about what South Arabian studies involves and what research HSE scholars do in this field.

‘There Are Many Directions in Which We Can Develop Our Relations with Iran’

On February 12, an official signing ceremony was held for an agreement on the free transfer of literature published by the Organisation for Researching and Composing University Textbooks in the Islamic Sciences and the Humanities under the Ministry of Science, Research and Technology of the Islamic Republic of Iran (SAMT) to HSE University. The event took place in the HSE University library on Pokrovsky Bulvar.

CSMECCA on the pages of Middle Eastern Studies

The British journal Middle Eastern Studies, a flagship journal for the study of Middle Eastern history and culture, has recently published an article by Associate Professor Denis V. Volkov entitled "Bringing democracy into Iran: a Russian project for the separation of Azerbaijan". The article presents the results of a study which is part of a major international project entitled "The Caspian World: Connections and Contentions at Modern Eurasian Crossroads", carried out under the auspices of Yale University (USA) with the participation of scholars from Britain, France and the Netherlands.

‘To Read Such Papers, International Scholars Will Likely Want to Learn Russian’

The results of the competition for the best academic and popular science papers in Russian by HSE staff members have been announced. This competition is a new one, organized by the university to celebrate the Year of Science and Technology. 257 applications were submitted, with 35 winners announced in the academic category and 30 in the popular science one. The winners were announced on Alexander Pushkin’s birthday. The organizers plan to make the competition annual, potentially opening it up for all Russian and international researchers writing papers and involved in science communication in Russian.

Middle Eastern Studies published an article by an IOCS HSE’s scholar Dr Denis Volkov

Middle Eastern Studies, a leading journal in the field, has published an article authored by Associate Professor Denis V. Volkov. ‘The evil genius of Iranian constitutionalism? “Bloody Shapshal” at the Qajar court’ presents the findings of Volkov’s research that is part of a major international project ‘Life Writing and Historiography of the Modern Middle East’ carried out under the aegis of the Centre for the Study of the Middle East, the Caucasus and Central Asia (CSMECCA) with the participation of the IOCS’ researchers as well as scholars from France, Austria, United Kingdom and the USA.

President of Iran awards a scholar from HSE

The Institute for Oriental and Classical Studies, HSE congratulates Dr Denis V. Volkov, Associate Professor and Leading Research Fellow, Head of the Center for the Study of the Middle East, the Caucasus and Central Asia (CSMECCA) on the occasion of a new honourable award. Dr Volkov’s monograph Russia’s Turn to Persia: Orientalism in Diplomacy and Intelligence (Cambridge University Press, 2018) has been graced by the IRI World Award for Book of the Year.

Dr. Denis Volkov: ‘Was there “Russia Abroad” at all? Russian Emigration in the Middle East (1917–1946)’

The paper of Dr. Volkov was presented on December 11th, 2019 at the seminar “Oriental Cultures” (Moderator: Dr. Natalia Chalisova). This talk was about the interim research results achieved in a project carried out under the aegis of the International Institute of Social History (IISH, Amsterdam) and funded by the Farman‑Farmaian Family and the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Flying Away from the Bolshevik Winter: Soviet Refugees Across the Southern Borders (1917–1946) — Dr Denis Volkov’s Paper

Methodologically drawing on the most recent works in Migration Studies and Russian Emigré Studies the current research studies migration from the USSR into Turkey, Iran and Afghanistan (1917–1946). Using recently declassified documents from archives in Britain, France, Turkey, Azerbaijan, Russia and Iran, research looks into the phenomena, such as displaced statehood, political activism and cross‑cultural interaction in the context of the migration/refugees policies of the relevant states (Britain, the USSR and the host countries).