Anna E. Afanasyeva
- Academic Director:Doctoral School of Cultural Studies
- Associate Professor:Faculty of Humanities / School of Philosophy and Cultural Studies
- Anna E. Afanasyeva has been at HSE University since 2014.
Education, Degrees and Academic Titles
- 2010Associate Professor
- 2004
Candidate of Sciences* (PhD) in World History
- 2000
Degree in History
Ushinskiy Yaroslavl State Teacher Training 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.
Continuing education / Professional retraining / Internships / Study abroad experience
2014, July - October: Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH), University of Cambridge, UK
2012, February - August: German Historical Institute (DHI), Moscow
2011, March - June: Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine, University College London, UK
2010, October - 2011, January: Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften (IFK), Vienna, Austria
2006, 2007, 2008: University of Bielefeld, Germany
2004, January - April: King’s College London, UK
Courses (2023/2024)
- History and Theory of Culture (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Creative Industries; 1 year, 2 module)Rus
- History of Culture - ll (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 2 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
- Past Courses
Courses (2022/2023)
- Academic English Writing (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 4 year, 2, 3 module)Eng
History and Theory of Culture (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Creative Industries; field of study "42.03.02. Журналистика", field of study "42.03.05. Медиакоммуникации"; 1 year, 4 module)Rus
- History of Culture (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 2 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
- Humanity, Disease and Health in Past and Present (Optional course (university); 3 module)Rus
Courses (2021/2022)
- Academic English Writing (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 4 year, 2, 3 module)Eng
- History and Theory of Culture (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Creative Industries; 2 year, 1 module)Rus
History and Theory of Culture (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Creative Industries; field of study "42.03.02. Журналистика", field of study "42.03.05. Медиакоммуникации"; 1 year, 1 module)Rus
- History of Culture (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 2 year, 1-3 module)Rus
- Humanity, Disease and Health in Past and Present (Mago-Lego; 3 module)Rus
Courses (2020/2021)
- Academic English Writing (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 4 year, 2, 3 module)Rus
- History and Theory of Culture (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Creative Industries; 2 year, 1 module)Eng
- History of Culture (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 2 year, 1-3 module)Rus
Courses (2019/2020)
- Academic English Writing (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 4 year, 2, 3 module)Rus
- History of Culture (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 2 year, 1-3 module)Rus
Courses (2018/2019)
- History and Theory of Culture (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Creative Industries; 2 year, 4 module)Eng
- History of Culture (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 2 year, 1-4 module)Rus
Courses (2017/2018)
- History and Theory of Culture (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Creative Industries; 2 year, 3, 4 module)Eng
- History of Culture (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 2 year, 1-4 module)Rus
- Modern Cultural Process (Minor; Faculty of Humanities; 1, 2 module)Rus
Conferences
2018, May - ongoing - Regular seminar of the international research project 'On Land and Sea: Medical geography in the Russian empire (1770—1870)', Institute of History of Eastern Europe and Southeastern Europe, LMU, Germany - HSE University, Moscow.
2019, September - International conference «Mapping diseases – monitoring health: Geographies of Medicine in the Tsarist Empire and the Soviet Union». German Historical Institute (DHI) - HSE University, Moscow.
2018, November - International conference “Empires, the Nation and Tropical Medicine (1885 – 1960)”. Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain.
2018, October - The VIIIth Andrey Poletaev Memorial Readings "Geography of knowledge: Map and Territory". HSE University, Moscow.
2017, October - Research seminar, Institute of History of Eastern Europe and Southeastern Europe, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany.
2016, September - International conference "Techniques, Technologies and Materialities of Epidemic Control", University of Cambridge, UK.
2015, March - BASEES, University of Cambridge, UK.
2014, October - 15th CESS Annual Meeting, Columbia University, New York, USA.
2014, July - “Disease, Health and the State” (SSHM Biennial Meeting), University of Oxford, UK.
2014, August - Research seminar, Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH), University of Cambridge, UK.
2013, May - "Late Imperial Epistemologies: A Eurasian Studies Workshop", Columbia University, New York, USA.
Articles and book chapters5
- Article Afanasyeva A. E., Vishlenkova E. A., Renner A. Medical Geography in Imperial Russia: A Transnational Concept at the Service of the Empire, 1770–1870 // Jahrbucher fur Geschichte Osteuropas. 2021. Vol. 69. No. 1. P. 3-29. doi
- Article Afanasyeva A. E. Local Knowledge and the Imperial State // Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History. 2020. Vol. 21. No. 2. P. 427-434. doi
- Chapter Anna Afanasyeva. ‘Kazakh Religious Beliefs in the Writings of Russian Doctors during the Imperial Age (1731 – 1917)’, in: Islam, Society and States across the Qazaq Steppe (18th - Early 20th Centuries). Wien : Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2013. Ch. 6. P. 143-180.
- Article Anna Afanasyeva. ‘Quarantines and Copper Amulets: the Struggle against Cholera in the Kazakh Steppe in the Nineteenth Century’ // Jahrbucher fur Geschichte Osteuropas. 2013. Vol. 61. No. 4. P. 489-512.
- Chapter Anna Afanasyeva. Russian imperial medicine: the case of the Kazakh steppe, in: Crossing Colonial Historiographies: Histories of Colonial and Indigenous Medicines in Transnational Perspective. Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010. P. 57-75.
Working papers1
Employment history
2013 - present - Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Intellectual History, Institute of World History, Russian Academy of Sciences
2003 - 2013 - Lecturer/Associate Professor at the World History Department, Yaroslavl State Pedagogical University named after K.D. Ushinsky
Presentation of the project
В рамках международной конференции в Германском историческом институте в Москве прошла презентация проекта "On Land and Sea: Medical geography in the Russian empire (1770—1870)". С докладами выступили лидеры проекта - Анна Афанасьева, Елена Вишленкова и Андреас Реннер
Project Roadmap
On January 22, a working meeting of the project leaders - Anna Afanasyeva, Elena Vishlenkova and Andreas Renner, was held in Munich to develop a roadmap for 2019. Now we have directions, distances are measured, moments of meetings are determined.