Maria Kucheryavaya

Research Assistant:Institute of Education / Centre for Cultural Sociology

Maria Kucheryavaya has been at HSE University since 2022.

Education

2021
Master's
University of Manchester
2018
Bachelor's
Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration

Continuing education / Professional retraining / Internships / Study abroad experience

2023: 'Academic Accelerator: Soft Skills for the Researcher' Advanced Training, Center for Professional Development, HSE University

2023: Online Course 'Fundamentals of Academic Writing', Academic Writing Center, HSE University

2019 – 2021: Professional Retraining in Fundamental Sociology, The Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences

2021: Futures Thinking Specialization, Institute for the Future, Coursera

2020: Masterclass 'Semiotic research to find opportunities for brand development/building', Association of Research Companies "Group 7/89"

2020: 'Introduction to Memory Studies' Advanced Training, Gaidar Open University

2018: Online Course 'Questionnaire Design for Social Survey', University of Michigan, Coursera

Professional Interests

cultural sociology sacred visual anthropology sociology of death qualitative methods of sociological researh social and cultural anthropology death and culture Memory Studies social recognition self-help culture therapeutic culture

Responsibilities

Participation in projects:

— «Recognition, distinction and emotional drivers of action: the cultural-symbolic dimension of social mobility»: studiyng recognition as a mechanism of inequality

— «New trends in the organisation of emotional life as a key context for human enhancement technologies»: study of self-help practices, therapeutic culture and self-development discourse

Publications²

Chapter Kucheryavaya M. Death, memory and power: public memorial culture of Moscow necropolises, in: The Routledge Handbook of Museums, Heritage, and Death. Routledge, 2023. doi Ch. 21. P. 306-317. doi
Chapter Kucheryavaya M. Memorial space of the necropolis. The case of Novodevichy Cemetery, in: Death and Events: International Perspectives on Events Marking the End of Life. L. : Routledge, 2021. doi Ch. 4. P. 48-62. doi

Projects

2022: The Social Frame of Memory: A Study of Commemorative Practices in Megacities
Research Centre for Sociological Research, RANEPA

Junior researcher at the centre, participant in the research project on urban commemorative practices

2018 – 2019: The study of the processes of formation of social differences and inequalities in new residential areas of Moscow
Science and Training Laboratory for Urban Social Research, Higher School of Economics, Moscow

The study of the processes of formation of social differences and inequalities in new residential areas of Moscow. Sociological research of three Moscow districts; in-depth interviews with residents

2016: The study of ethnic borders and migration flows
Centre for Migration and Ethnicity Studies of RANEPA

Participation in a summer sociological expedition to study ethnic boundaries and migration flows in Armenia villages; ethnographic observation, in-depth interviews with residents of villages, 2 weeks fieldwork

Conferences

2023
IV Всероссийская научно-практическая конференция совета молодых учёных Института Социологии ФНИСЦ РАН "Социальные изменения и стабильность в предметном поле социологии: от эмпирических исследований к теоретической рефлексии" (Москва). Presentation: Признание как механизм социальной мобильности: роль самостоятельность в изменении своего социального положения
Междисциплинарная конференция «Биографическая коллизия: теория, метод и нарратив» (Москва). Presentation: Биография как инструмент: конструирование личности в нарративах экспертов по личностному росту
2021
The Association for Gravestone Studies Virtual Conference. Presentation: Gravestones, emotions, representations: celebrities’ burials at Moscow cemetery
The Association of Social Anthropologists conference. Presentation: 'And yet it must be a place for a living': life and death at the Novodevichy cemetery
2020
Death and Culture Conference III. Presentation: Death, memory and power: public memorial culture of Moscow necropolises
2019
Международная конференция «Смерть и умирание: между традицией и новым воображением» (Санкт-Петербург). Presentation: Кладбище знаменитостей: анализ одного московского некрополя
The 14th International Conference on the Social Context of Death, Dying and Disposal (Bath). Presentation: Memorial space of the necropolis: the case of Novodevichy cemetery in Moscow
2018
Ежегодная научная конференция «Вещь и контекст: художественное произведение и современные подходы к его анализу» (Санкт-Петербург). Presentation: Надгробные памятники Новодевичьего кладбища: архитектурная ценность на службе у поминальной обрядности
Ежегодная конференция «Антропология, Фольклористика, Социолингвистика» (Санкт-Петербург). Presentation: Кладбище и туризм: заметки о некрополе на примере Новодевичьего кладбища
2017
V Всероссийская научно-практическая конференция студентов, аспирантов и молодых ученых «Культура открытого города: новые смыслы и практики» (Екатеринбург). Presentation: Открывая кладбища: о возможности двух теоретических моделей
Конференция молодых ученых «Новые подходы и методы в социологии: современные исследовательские практики» (Москва). Presentation: Символическая структура городских кенотафов
Ежегодная конференция «Антропология, Фольклористика, Социолингвистика» (Санкт-Петербург). Presentation: Символика локальных городских поминальных объектов: случай московских кенотафов
2016
Первая международная научная конференция молодых учёных «К альянсу социальных наук: теория и практика междисциплинарного взаимодействия» (Москва). Presentation: Символическая структура городских кенотафов
Пятые студенческие Смольные чтения "Синтез науки и искусства в решении проблем современности" (Санкт-Петербург). Presentation: Визуализация в качестве научного метода: к проблеме конструирования

Summer and winter schools

2018: Student Winter School on Sociology, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia, January

2016: MA School «Theoretical frontier: the latest history of the social sciences», Moscow School for the Social and Economic Sciences, Moscow, Russia, May

2015: MA School «Revolutions and social changes», Moscow School for the Social and Economic Sciences, Moscow, Russia, October

2015: MA School «Sociology of everyday life 2.0», Moscow School for the Social and Economic Sciences, Moscow, Russia, March

2015: MA School «Sociology of everyday life», Moscow School for the Social and Economic Sciences, Moscow, Russia, January

Employment history

2021 - now: Lecturer, The Faculty of Social Sciences, The Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences

2021 – 2023: Lecturer, Institute for Social Sciences, RANEPA

2020 – 2021: Semiotician, Enjoy Understanding

2018 – 2020: Junior Project Manager, Tiburon Research

2018: UX researcher, Crowdtesting

2017: Trainee, The Centre for Theoretical Folklore Studies