Aleksandra Bekasova
- Associate Professor:HSE Campus in St. Petersburg / School of Arts and Humanities / Department of History
- Aleksandra Bekasova has been at HSE University since 2011.
Education and Degrees
- 2006
Candidate of Sciences* (PhD) in National History
RAS Institute of History in Saint Petersburg - 2003
Master's in History
European University in St. Petersburg, history - 1990
Degree in History
Leningrad State University
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.
Courses (2022/2023)
- Anthropocene (Master’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 2 year, 1, 2 module)Eng
- Historical Urban Studies (Master’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 2 year, 1, 2 module)Eng
- Research Seminar (Master’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 2 year, 1-3 module)Eng
- Research Seminar 4 (Bachelor’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 4 year, 1-4 module)Rus
- Past Courses
Courses (2021/2022)
- Anthropocene (Master’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 2 year, 1, 2 module)Eng
- Historical Urban Studies (Master’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 2 year, 1, 2 module)Eng
- Mobility in history (Bachelor’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 4 year, 3 module)Rus
- Research Seminar (Master’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 2 year, 1-3 module)Eng
- Research Seminar (Master’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 1 year, 1-4 module)Eng
Courses (2020/2021)
- Mobility in history (Bachelor’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 4 year, 3 module)Rus
- Peter the Great's St. Petersburg (Bachelor’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 4 year, 1 module)Rus
- Research Seminar - 1 (Bachelor’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 1 year, 2-4 module)Rus
- Urban History in Transnational Perspective (Master’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 2 year, 1, 2 module)Eng
Courses (2019/2020)
- Research Seminar (Master’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 1 year, 1-4 module)Eng
- Research Seminar 1 (Bachelor’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 1 year, 2-4 module)Rus
- Technology, Science and Environment in History (Interdisciplinary History) (Master’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 1 year, 3, 4 module)Eng
- Urban History in Transnational Perspective (Master’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 2 year, 1, 2 module)Eng
Courses (2018/2019)
- Research Seminar (Master’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 1 year, 1-4 module)Eng
- Research Seminar 1 (Bachelor’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 1 year, 2-4 module)Rus
- Technology, Science and Environment in History (Interdisciplinary History) (Master’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 1 year, 3, 4 module)Eng
Publications7
- Article Bekasova A. From Common Rocks to Valuable Industrial Resources: Limestone in Nineteenth-century Russia // Extractive Industries and Society. 2020 doi (in press)
- Article Alexandra Bekasova. From common rocks to valuable industrial resources: Limestone in nineteenth-century Russia // Extractive Industries and Society. 2020. Vol. 7 . No. 1. P. 8-19. doi
- Chapter Bekasova A. State Socialism and Sustainable Urban Mobility: Alternative Paths in St Petersburg since the 1880s, in: A U-TURN TO THE FUTURE: Sustainable Urban Mobility since 1850. Edited by Martin Emanuel, Frank Schipper, and Ruth Oldenziel. Berghahn Books, 2020. Berghahn Books, 2020. Ch. 7. P. 201-233.
- Article Bekasova A. Voyaging Towards the Future: the Brig Rurik in the North Pacific and the Emerging Science of the Sea // British Journal for the History of Science. 2020. Vol. 53. No. 4. P. 469-495. doi
- Preprint Bekasova A. VISUALIZING ATTRACTIVE SPOTS FOR VISITORS AND THE MAKING OF THE TOURIST PLACES AT THE BLACK SEA COAST OF RUSSIA (THE END OF THE 19TH AND THE BEGINNING OF THE 20-TH CENTURIES) / Basic Research Programme. Series HUM "Humanities". 2018.
- Article Evgenii V. Anisimov, Alexandra Bekasova, Ekaterina Kalemeneva. Books That Link Worlds: Travel Guides, the Development of Transportation Infrastructure, and the Emergence of the Tourism Industry in Imperial Russia, Nineteenth–Early Twentieth Centuries // The Journal of Tourism History. 2016. Vol. 8. No. 2. P. 184-204. doi
- Chapter Bekasova A. The Making of Passengers in the Russian Empire: Coach-Transport Companies, Guidebooks, and National Identity in Russia, 1820-1860s, in: Russia in Motion: Cultures of Human Mobility since 1850. Illinois University Press, 2012. P. 199-217.
The Master's in 'Global and Regional History' Trains Specialists in History and Anthropology
The Master's programme 'Global and Regional History' has two educational tracks: one historical and one anthropological. The main goal of the programme is to prepare graduates to continue their academic careers. However, students will also be able to work in more applied fields: in museums, publishing companies, exhibitions, and marketing. Find out which courses await students and why the programme rejects traditional divisions into Russian and world history in this interview with Nikolai Ssorin-Chaikov, the programme's Academic Supervisor.
HSE Students Explore Environmental Problems at Summer School in South Urals
The summer school 'Space in/for Environmental Humanities: Reconsidering the Global through Studying Peripheries' explored the impact of human activity on natural environments and their transformation. It was co-organised by the School of Environmental and Social Studies (Anthroposchool) at the University of Tyumen (TSU) and the HSE Poletayev Institute for Theoretical and Historical Studies in the Humanities (IGITI), with support from the Mirror Labs programme of HSE University.
Exploring the History of Places and Environment in Russia
The collective volume Place and Nature: Essays in Russian Environmental History, co-edited by David Moon, Nicholas B. Breyfogle, and HSE researcher Alexandra Bekasova, was recently presented at a seminar of the Laboratory for the Environmental and Technological History of the Centre for Historical Research at HSE – St. Petersburg. The book is one of the fruits of a networking project carried out in 2013-2016 with active participation of HSE researchers.
Seminar of the Laboratory for the Environmental and Technological History and the presentation of the recently published book:
Moon, David, Nicholas B. Breyfogle, and Alexandra Bekasova, eds. Place and Nature: Essays in Russian Environmental History. Winwick, Cambridgeshire: The White Horse Press, 2021.
26 March 2021, 18:00 at the seminar of the Laboratory for the Environmental and Technological History (St. Petersburg School of Arts and Humanities HSE SPb) – the presentation of the recently published book: Moon, David, Nicholas B. Breyfogle, and Alexandra Bekasova, eds. Place and Nature: Essays in Russian Environmental History. Winwick, Cambridgeshire: The White Horse Press, 2021.Presenters: Alexandra Bekasova, Nicholas B. Breyfogle, Ekaterina Kalemeneva, Elena Kochetkova, Julia Lajus, David Moon and other authors. This collective monograph is one of the results of a networking project funded by the Leverhulme Trust (UK) carried out in 2013-2016, in which many researchers of the Laboratory participated. The project team carried out several research trips to different parts of Russia that are important for studying the history of the relationship between people and nature: the Solovetsky Islands, Lake Baikal, the Perm region and the Urals.
POSTPONED
Tensions of Europe Research Group on Technologies, Environment, and Resources Coproduction of territories and their resources: technologies of prospecting, extraction and remediation in history
THE EVENT WAS POSTPONED TILL WINTER 2020 BECAUSE OF CORONAVIRUS
Researchers of the Laboratory participate in the SHOT Annual Meeting
The Annual Meeting of the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT) has been held in Milano and was co-organized by the SHOT and the National Museum of Science and Technology named after Leonardo da Vinci.
Five years of the Summer School by History Department “Topography of imperial power: the political and cultural space of St. Petersburg”
The summer school of the HSE’s Department of History, St. Petersburg, with the support of the German Academic Exchange Service DAAD, was held for the fifth time this year and attracted an international group of students from Germany and the USA to participate.
Exploring Political and Cultural Space of St Petersburg through the Summer School 'Topography of Imperial Power'
On a grey autumn day, it is always nice to warm up by reliving memories of summer adventures. This year, the balmy weather did not leave our city till mid-October, and a summer mood also lingered at HSE University – St Petersburg with the IV International Summer School 'The Topography of Imperial Power: Political and Cultural Space of Saint Petersburg' which ran from September 11 till October 2, 2018.
European Society for Environmental History Conference
From June 30 – July 3, 2015, Julia Lajus, Alexandra Bekasova, Marina Loskutova, Margarita Dadykina, and Elena Kochetkova, researchers from the Department of History and Center of Historical Studies, took part in the 8th Conference of the European Society for Environmental History. The event took place at University of Versailles-Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines in France.