Irina Ivanovna Filatova

2009: Member of the Editorial Board, Twentieth Century Communism. A journal of international history.

2008 – State University Higher School of Economics grant 08-01-0071 for research on the topic The State and the Evolution. Political and Social Transformation of the Republic of South Africa in the late 20^th–early 21^st c.

2005-2007 – Ford Foundation (USA) grant towards a biography of Jack Simons.

1995-1997 - National Endowment for the Humanities (USA) research grant towards the completion of the project The Comintern and South Africa: a documentary history (with A. Davidson, V. Gorodnov and S. Johns)

1993-1996 - University of Durban-Westville research grant for the project The Comintern and South Africa: a documentary History.

1992 - 9th Bradlow Fellow, South African Institute of International Affairs.

1990-1991 - Research Fellow, Southern African Research Program, Yale University (USA).

Positions held:

2004 – present - Professor, National Research University – Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia (School of History)

Courses: English Language Historiography of Russian 20^th Century History; Problems in Russian History of the 20^th Century; African History; Race and Ethnicity in Russia and Africa; Human Rights in the Globalising World (videoconference course with George Mason University, USA); Coping with Violence: Patterns from the 20^th Century (videoconference course with George Mason University, USA); Colonialism and Postcolonial world; Migrants and Minorities; Nationalism and Ethnicity; Democracy and Authoritarianism in the 20^th Century; Regionalism in the Globalising World.

2002 – present – Professor Emeritus and Senior Research Associate, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa.

2000–2002 – Director, School of Social Sciences and Development Studies, University of Durban-Westville.

1992-2002 - Professor and Head, Department of History, University of Durban-Westville, Durban, South Africa.

Courses in African History; African History in the 19th Century; African History in the 20th Century; Colonialism and Anti-colonialism in Africa; African Contemporary History; Ethnicity and Nationalism in Africa; African Historiography; Russian History in the 20th Century; Stalinism; History of Russian Nationalism; Nationalism in Contemporary Russia; Nationalism and ethnicity in Russia and Africa; Concepts of Nation in Russia and South Africa.

1990-1992 - Professor and Head, Department of African Studies, Institute of African and Asian Countries, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia. 

1989-1992 - Head, Department of African Studies, Institute of African and Asian Countries at Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia.

1976-1990 - Senior Lecturer, the same Institute.

1973-1976 - Lecturer, the same Institute.

Courses in African History; African History in the 17th-19th Centuries; African History in the 20th Century; Colonialism and Anti-colonialism in Africa; Colonial Society in Africa; African Historiography; African Contemporary History; African Political Thought; African Ideologies; African Nationalism; History of Ties between Russia and South Africa; Soviet Policy in Africa; Nationalism in Russia and Africa. 

• Professor emeritus, University of Kvazulu Natal (South Africa)
• Teacher, HSR Faculty of History, Political History Department

• Сoping with Violence. Patterns from the 20th Century (Faculty of History)
• History (Faculty of Foreign Languages)
• Migrants and Ethnic Minorities (Public Policy Department)
• State Policy in the Sphere of Ethno–National Relations (Public Policy Department)
• Global Actors (Public Policy Department)
• Human rights in the Globalising World (Public Policy Department)
• Conflict Management (Public Policy Department)