Natalia Morozova
- Associate Professor:HSE Campus in Nizhny Novgorod / Faculty of Humanities (Nizhny Novgorod) / School of Fundamental and Applied Linguistics
- Natalia Morozova has been at HSE University since 2013.
Education and Degrees
- 2011
PhD in Political Problems of International Relations, Global and Regional Development
Central European University
Thesis Title: The Politics of Russian Post-Soviet Identity: Geopolitics, Eurasianism, and Beyond - 2001
MA in Political Problems of International Relations, Global and Regional Development
Thesis Title: From Universal Laws to Historicity of Knowledge: The Realist Interpretation of Tolstoy"s View of History in "War and Peace" - 2000
Degree
N.A. Dobrolyubov Nizhny Novgorod State Linguistic University

Young Faculty Support Program (Group of Young Academic Professionals)
Category "Future Professoriate" (2014)
Courses (2023/2024)
- Academic English Writing (Optional course; 2, 3 module)Rus
- Critical Discourse Analysis (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities (Nizhny Novgorod); 2 year, 2, 3 module)Eng
- Formal Approaches to Natural Language (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities (Nizhny Novgorod); 1 year, 2 module)Eng
- Past Courses
Courses (2022/2023)
Academic English Writing (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities (Nizhny Novgorod); field of study "45.03.01. Филология", field of study "45.03.03. Фундаментальная и прикладная лингвистика"; 4 year, 2, 3 module)Rus
- Formal Approaches to Natural Language (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities (Nizhny Novgorod); 1 year, 2 module)Eng
- Formal Approaches to Natural Language (Mago-Lego; 2 module)Eng
- Language for Professional Communication (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities (Nizhny Novgorod); 4 year, 3 module)Eng
- Qualitative Methods of Text Analysis (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities (Nizhny Novgorod); 2 year, 1, 2 module)Eng
- Research Seminar "Linguistic Methods in Socio-Humanitarian Projects" (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities (Nizhny Novgorod); 4 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
Courses (2021/2022)
Academic English Writing (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities (Nizhny Novgorod); field of study "45.03.01. Филология", field of study "45.03.03. Фундаментальная и прикладная лингвистика"; 4 year, 1-3 module)Rus
- Formal Approaches to Natural Language (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities (Nizhny Novgorod); 1 year, 2 module)Eng
- Language for Professional Communication (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities (Nizhny Novgorod); 4 year, 3 module)Eng
- Methods and Technologies of Text Analysis (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities (Nizhny Novgorod); 2 year, 1, 2 module)Eng
- Research Seminar "Linguistic Methods in Socio-Humanitarian Projects" (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities (Nizhny Novgorod); 4 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
Courses (2020/2021)
Academic English Writing (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities (Nizhny Novgorod); field of study "45.03.01. Филология", field of study "45.03.03. Фундаментальная и прикладная лингвистика"; 4 year, 1-3 module)Rus
- Academic Writing (Foreign Language) (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities (Nizhny Novgorod); 2 year, 4 module)Eng
- Formal Approaches to Natural Language (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities (Nizhny Novgorod); 1 year, 2 module)Eng
- Language for Professional Communication (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities (Nizhny Novgorod); 4 year, 3 module)Eng
- Moral Foundations of Politics (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities (Nizhny Novgorod); 2 year, 1 module)Eng
- Research Seminar "Linguistic Methods in Socio-Humanitarian Projects" (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities (Nizhny Novgorod); 4 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
- Research Seminar "Methods and Interdisciplinary Research Techniques in Political Linguistics" (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities (Nizhny Novgorod); 2 year, 1-3 module)Rus
Courses (2019/2020)
- Academic Writing (Foreign Language) (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities (Nizhny Novgorod); 2 year, 1, 2 module)Eng
- Formal approaches to natural language (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities (Nizhny Novgorod); 1 year, 1 module)Rus
- Language for Professional Communication (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities (Nizhny Novgorod); 4 year, 3 module)Eng
- Political Linguistics (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities (Nizhny Novgorod); 1 year, 2, 3 module)Eng
Courses (2018/2019)
- Academic Writing (Foreign Language) (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities (Nizhny Novgorod); 2 year, 2, 3 module)Eng
- Formal Approaches to Natural Language (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities (Nizhny Novgorod); 1 year, 1 module)Rus
- Political Linguistics (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities (Nizhny Novgorod); 1 year, 2-4 module)Rus
- Sociolinguistics of mass media discourse (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities (Nizhny Novgorod); 1 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
Courses (2017/2018)
Conferences
- 2018
3d Annual Tartu Conference on Russian and East European Studies (Тарту). Presentation: Resisting the West, Forging Regional Consensus: Russia's Discourse on Humanitarian Cooperation after the Crimean Referendum
- British International Studies Association (BISA) Working Group workshop "Narrating Russian and Eurasian Security" (Лондон). Presentation: Russia's World War II Narrative Goes Regional: The Case of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO)
- International Workshop "Change and Continuity in Russian Memory Politics: Agents of the Nation" (Хельсинки). Presentation: History Politics as Foreign Policy: Russia's World War II Narrative Goes Regional
- 201717th Annual Aleksanteri Conference “Russia’s Choices for 2030” (Хельсинки). Presentation: Resisting Europe, Forging Regional Consensus: Russia's Discourse on Humanitarian Cooperation in the CIS
- 2nd Annual Tartu Conference on Russian and East European Studies (Тарту). Presentation: Can There Be Ethical Politics? Or the Relevance of Post-Revolutionary Eurasianism for Understanding Russian Foreign Policy
- 2016Научно-практическая конференция с элементами научной школы "Когнитивно-дискурсивный подход к исследованию явлений языка и культуры (Нижний Новгород). Presentation: Анализ политического дискурса глазами политологов
- The Return of Spheres of Influence? Continuity and Change in Geopolitics (Хельсинки). Presentation: Particularist, Universalist, Anti-European: Russia's Discourse on Humanitarian Cooperation in the CIS
- First Annual Tartu Conference on Russian and East European Studies (Tartu). Presentation: Particularist, Universalist, Anti-European: Russia's Discourse on Humanitarian Cooperation in the CIS
- Realism and the Return of Geopolitics in Europe (Тренто). Presentation: A Farewell to Geopolitics? Russia's Discourse on Humanitarian Cooperation in the CIS
- 201556th Annual Convention of the International Studies Association (ISA) (Новый Орлеан). Presentation: Russia's Evolving Idea of Humanitarianism: Between Sovereignty and Human Rights
- Critical Perspectives and Critical Dimensions on the On-Going Ukrainian Crisis: Which Systemic Challenges to the EU-Russia Dialogue? (Тарту). Presentation: A Good Word Gone Bad? Russia's Idea of 'Humanitarianism' and the Ukrainian Crisis
- Первая школа по когнитивным исследованиям - 2015 (Нижний Новгород). Presentation: От десекьюритизации "другого" к толерантности: дискурс-анализ в политических исследованиях
- 2014Россия и Великобритания: встречное движение. Экономика, политика, культура. (Нижний Новгород). Presentation: Идеи Хэлфорда Маккиндера и российский постсоветский геополитический дискурс
- 2013Метакомпаративистика в контексте гуманитарного знания: междисциплинарные связи (Нижний Новгород, НИУ ВШЭ). Presentation: Сравнительный дискурс-анализ (на примере геополитического дискурса в России и Германии)
- 2012Миссия гуманитарных университетов в Центральной и Восточной Европе: между обучением и образованием (Вильнюс). Presentation: Teaching Students to Think Critically About the Role of Law in International Politics
- 200950th Annual Convention of the International Studies Association (ISA) (Нью Йорк). Presentation: "Geopolitics, Eurasianism and Russian Foreign Policy under Putin"
- 200849th Annual Convention of the International Studies Association (ISA) (Сан Франциско). Presentation: "The Silence of Law, or Geopolitics from the Heartland"
- Joint Sessions of the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) (Ренн). Presentation: "At the Margins of Objectivity: Geopolitics, Eurasianism and International Relations in Post-Soviet Russia"
- 2006Seventh Essex Graduate Conference in Political Theory (Эссекс). Presentation: The Geopolitics of Russian Post-Soviet Identity
Publications7
- Chapter Morozova N. From Ontological Insecurity to Counter-Hegemony: Russia's Post-Soviet Engagement with Geopolitics and Eurasianism, in: Fear and Uncertainty in Europe: The Return to Realism?. Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. doi Ch. 8. P. 153-176. doi
- Article Morozova N. Resisting the West, Forging Regional Consensus: Russia's Discourse on Humanitarian Cooperation in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) // Geopolitics. 2018. Vol. 23. No. 2. P. 354-377. doi
- Preprint Morozova N. Particularism and Universalism in Russian Post-Soviet Foreign Policy: Russia’s Discourse on Humanitarian Cooperation in the CIS / NRU HSE. Series WP BRP "International Relations". 2015. No. WP BRP 24/IR/2015 .
- Preprint Morozova N. Can There Be Ethical Politics? Rethinking The Relationship Between European Geopolitics And Russian Eurasianism / NRU Higher School of Economics. Series WP BRP "International Relations". 2014. No. WP BRP 08/IR/2014.
- Chapter Morozova N., Astrov A. Russia: geopolitics from the heartland, in: The Return of Geopolitics in Europe? Social Mechanisms and Foreign Policy Identity Crises. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012. P. 192-216.
- Article Morozova N. Geopolitics, Eurasianism and Russian Foreign Policy Under Putin // Geopolitics. 2009. Vol. 14. No. 4. P. 667-686.
- Book Morozova N. From Universal Laws to Historicity of Knowledge: The Realist Interpretation of Tolstoy's View of History in 'War and Peace'. Saarbrücken : , 2008.
Linguistic Pleasure: HSE University’s Academic Writing Centre
Founded in 2011, the Academic Writing Centre strives to help HSE University faculty improve their academic and research-writing skills in English. HSE University bulletin Okna spoke to several teachers and researchers who have used the AWC’s services over the decade.
56th Convention of the International Studies Association
From the 18th to 21st February the biggest American (in fact international - like the American Association of Political Science) professional association of researchers in international relations, global politics and comparative politics, theInternational Studies Association held it’s 56th annual convention, this time in New Orleans. As in recent years, more than 6,000 participants came from all over the world.