Serguei Alex. Oushakine

 

 

Education:

 

2005                 Ph.D. with distinction. June 2005.  Department of Anthropology, Columbia University.

 

2002                 Master of Philosophy. Department of Anthropology, Columbia University

 

1998                 Master of Philosophy (Gender Studies), Program on Gender and Culture.  Central European University (Budapest, Hungary) / Open University (London, Great Britain).

 

1995                 Kandidat of Political Sciences. Department of Political Theory, School of Philosophy, St. Petersburg State University (St. Petersburg, Russia).

 

1988                 Diploma in History and Social Sciences (with excellence). Faculty of History, Altai State University  (Barnaul, Russia).

                       

 

 

TEACHING experience:

 

 

2006 –              Assistant Professor. Department of Slavic Languages and Literature, Princeton University.

 

2005                 Lecturer. Summer School: “Identity: Search, Production, and Reproduction” (Identichnost: poisk, proizvodstvo i vosproizvodstvo), Bishkek, Kyrgystan. Open Society Institute. July 19-29, 2005.

 

2004                 Scholar in Residence. Oberlin Center for Russian, East European, & Central Asian

                        Studies.  Taught an undergraduate course “Postcommunism as a Cultural Problem: Russia in the 1990s.”

 

2002-2003         Visiting Lecturer, spring term each year. European Humanities University, Minsk, Belarus.  Taught a graduate course Political Theory and Feminist Interventions.

 

2001                 Teaching Assistant, Department of Anthropology, Columbia University. 

 

1999                 Visiting Lecturer. University of Pennsylvania, Department of Political Science,

                        Philadelphia, USA. Taught an undergraduate course: Russia’s Permanent Revolution: From Trotsky to Zhirinovskii.

 

1995 - 2001       Assistant to Associate Professor. Altai State Technical University, Department of World and Russian Culture, Barnaul, Russia.

 

1988-1990         Teaching Assistant. Altai State University, Faculty of History, Department of World

                        History, Barnaul, Russia.

 

 

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY:

 

1998-2005         Visiting Scholar. University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA.

 

2002-2005         Participant in research project. Contrasting Russian Others: Gender and Nationality in Cultural,  Historical and Literary Discourses of the 20th Century. A project organized by the Finnish Academy of Sciences. Helsinki, Finland.

 

2003                 Co-organizer of the conference Masculinities in Russia. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, June 19–22.

 

2001–2003        Panelist. Open Society Institute, Budapest, Hungary. Selection Committee for the

                        Soros Supplementary Grant .

 

1999–2001        Consultant. The Country in Mind: Identity Development of Adolescents in Eastern Europe and Austria: a Research Dialogue, Vienna, Austria.  A collective research project organized by University of Vienna, University of Utrecht, and Tavistock Consultancy Service (London).

 

2000-present     Reviewer of Kandidat Dissertations for St. Petersburg State Technical University and

                        Saratov State University.

 

1997-present     Organizer of free e-mail informational lists on academic conferences, jobs

                        and fellowships in the fields of Russian/Post-Communist studies, social sciences and humanities (more than 400 subscribers from Eastern and Central Europe and Eurasia).

 

1993-1994         Visiting Fellow. University of Nebraska at Omaha, Department of International Studies

                        and Programs, Omaha, USA.

 

1991                 Research Assistant. International Society of Human Rights (IGFM), Headquarters at

                        Frankfurt/M., Germany.

 

1989-1990         Junior researcher. Altai State University, Department of Sociology, Laboratory on

                        Youth problems, Barnaul, Russia.

 

 

Fellowships, Grants, AND AWARDs:

 

2005–2005        Fellow, The Harriman Institute, Columbia University.

2005–2007        Fellow, Michigan Society of Fellows (declined).

2004-2005         Dissertation Write-up Fellowship from the Social Science Research Council’s Program for Eurasia Studies.

2004-2005         The Josephine De Kármán Dissertation Fellowship.

2003-2004         Dissertation Fellow, Columbia University

2002                 Special Program Grant (for publication), Support for Community Outreach and University Teaching Program (Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the US Department of State, Open Society Institute and Civic Education Project).

2002                 International Dissertation and Research Fellowship (IDRF) of the Social Science Research Council and the American Council of Learned Societies.

2001                 Winner of the Russian Academy of Sciences the 2000 Annual Award For Young Scholars for the best work in the field of social sciences.   (This award for scholars under 35 years of age is given annually for the best work in the fields of sociology, psychology, philosophy and law; in 2000 it was given to only two people in all of Russia for all four disciplines.)

2001                 Columbia University Dissertation Traveling Grant.

2000                 Winner of the 2000 Europe-Asia Lecture Competition, organized by the journal Europe-Asia Studies.  (The University of Glasgow) and the International Institute of Social History (Amsterdam).   (My winning article was published in Europe-Asia Studies.) 

2000-2001         Publication Grant from the Open Society Institute (Moscow) for publishing an edited volume on masculinity in Russia.

2000-2001         Supplementary Grant from the Global Supplementary Grant Program, Open Society Institute (New York).

2000                 Scheps Summer Research Award, Department of Anthropology, Columbia University.

1999-2001         President’s Fellowship, Columbia University.

1999                 IREX Alumni Small Grant.

1998 – 1999      Fellowship of the Faculty of Art and Sciences, Columbia University.

1998 – 1999      Central European University Supplementary Grant (Budapest, Hungary).

1996 - 1997       Soros Student Fellowship, Central European University (Budapest, Hungary).

1993 - 1994       USIA/IREX Freedom Support Act Fellowship.

1993 - 1994       University of Nebraska at Omaha Research Fellowship (Omaha, USA).

 

 

List of Publications

 

in English:

 

articles in refereed journals:

           

under review:

 

 “Aesthetics Without Law: Cinematic Bandits in Post-Soviet Space,” Slavic and East European Journal. A Special Issue on Post-Soviet Film.

            published:

 

2006     (in press) The Politics of Pity: Domesticating Loss in a Russian Province. American Anthropologist, June 2006.

2004     “The Flexible and the Pliant: Disturbed Organisms of Soviet Modernity,” Cultural Anthropology, vol. 19 (3): 392–428.

2003     “Crimes of Substitution: Detection and the Late Soviet Society,” Public Culture, vol. 15 (3): 426–452.

2001     “The Fatal Splitting: Symbolizing Anxiety in Post/Soviet Russia,” Ethnos: Journal of Anthropology, 2001, vol. 66 (3): 291-319. (National Museum of Ethnography, Stockholm).

2001     “The Terrifying Mimicry of Samizdat,” Public Culture, vol. 13 (2): 191-214.

2000     “The Quantity of Style: Imaginary Consumption in the Post-Soviet Russia,” Theory, Culture and Society, vol. 17 (5): 97-120.

2000     “In the State of Post-Soviet Aphasia: Symbolic Development in Contemporary Russia,”

 
in RussiaN:

 

edited volumes:

in preparation:

2005     (co-edited with E. Trubina) Trauma:punkty (Trauma:points) Moskva: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie. A collection of essays on history and theory of trauma.

 

published:

 

2004     Semeinye uzi: Modeli dlia sborki. (Family Ties: Models to assemble) Moskva: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie. Vols. 1-2.  A collection of 38 essays on family in Russia and Ukraine written by scholars from Austria, Belarus, Britain, Finland, Russia, Ukraine and the United States.

2002     O muzhe(N)stvennosti (“On masculinity”). Moscow: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie. A collection of 26 essays on masculinity in Russia written by scholars from Britain, Canada, Finland, Latvia, Russia and the United States.

 

articles:

 

2005     Zhiznennye sily russkoi tragedii: O postsovetskikh teoriakh etnosa. Ab Imperio,  vol.4., 233-277. <http://abimperio.net/scgi-bin/aishow.pl?idlang=2&state=shown&idnumb=48>

2005     Kapitalizm s chelovecheskim litzom, ili O professionalizatsii prodazhnosti. // Vater Rhein und Mutter Wolga: Diskurse um Nation und Gender in Deutschland und Russland. Herausgegeben von Elisabeth Cheaure, Regine Nohejl, und Antonia Napp. Wurzvurg: Ergon Verlag, 2005.

2005     Pole boya na lone prirody: Ot kakogo nasledstva my otkazyvalis. Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, vol.71. <http://magazines.russ.ru/nlo/2005/71/usha15.html>

2005     Chelovek roda on: Futliary muzhestvennosti. Voprosy Filosofii, 2005, vol.7, pp.34–56.

2004     Etnografia sebia, ili O pol’ze formalizma v antropologii. Zhurnal sotsiologii I sotsial’noi antropologii. 2004, vol. 7(2): 160-172.

2004     Vmesto utraty: materializatsia pamiati I germenevtika boli v provinzialnoi Rossii. (Replacing Loss: The Materializiation of Memory and The Hermeneutics of Pain) Ab Imperio, 2004, vol. 4. URL: <http://abimperio.net/scgi-bin/aishow.pl?idlang=2&state=shown&idnumb=41>

2004     Slova zhelania: Poslelovie (Words of Desire: Afterwards). Erotism bez beregov: Sb. statei. Ed. by M. Pavlova. Moscow: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 2004, 456–476.

2004     “Mesto-imeni-ia: Sem’ia kak sposob organizatsii zhizni” (Place-of-being: Family as an organizing device). In  Semeinye uzi: modeli dlia sborki. Ed. by S. Oushakine. Moscow: NLO, 2004,  vol. 1, 7–54.

2004     “Rukhlaid’ byta ili O samooborudovanii” (Rubbish of everyday life or About self-equipping).  In Ob’iat’ obyknovennoe. Povsednevnost’ kak tekst po-amerikanski i po-russki. Ed. By T. Venediktova. Moscow: Moscow State University Press, 2004, 115–131.

2002     “Chelovek roda on: zhaki otsutsvia” (Person of masculine gender: signs of absence). In O muzhe(N)stvennosti. Ed. by S. Oushakine. Moscow: NLO, 2002, 7–42.

2000     “Politicheskaia teoria feminisma,” (Engendered theory of feminism), Voprosy Filosofii (Philosophical Issues). Vol. 11:27-52. Moscow: Russian Academy of Sciences. Institute of Philosophy.

2000     “Fokusiruia Foucault: feministskie  disku(r)ssii” (Focusing Foucault: feminist discussions), Gendernui issledovania (Gender Studies),  4:177-203.  Kharkov: Gender Studies Center.

1999     “Kolichestvo stila: potreblenie v usloviah symvolicheskogo defizita” (The quantity of style: consumption and the culture of symbolic shortages”), Sociologiocheskii Jurnal (Journal of Sociology),  3/4: 235-250. Moscow: Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Sociology.

            URL: <http://knowledge.isras.ru/sj/sj/sj3-4-99ush.html>

1999     “Pole pola: v zentre i po krayam” (The field of gender: in the center and on the margins), Voprosy Filosofii (Philosophical Issues), 5: 71-85. Moscow: Russian Academy of Sciences.

            URL: <http://edu-action.narod.ru/id20.htm>

1999     “Universiteti (u) vlasti” (Universities of/for Power), Obshestvennie naulki i sovremennost. (The Social Sciences Today). Moscow: Russian Academy of Sciences, Vol. 2, 55-65.

1999     “Vidimost muzhestvennosti”(Appearance of Masculinity), Znamia, vol.2, 131-144, Moscow. URL: <http://www.russ.ru/journal/archives/authors/ushakin.htm>

1998     “Intelligentnost skvoz’ prizmu interesov.” (The intellect through the prism of interests). Polis, (Political Inquiry), 4: 44-56. Moscow: Russian Academy of Sciences.

            URL: <http://www.politstudies.ru/fulltext/1998/4/3.htm>

1998     “Funkzionalnya intelligentnost”. (The functional intellect) Polis. (Political Inquiry), 1:8-22. Moscow, Russian Academy of Sciences.

1997     “James Bond kak Pavka Korchagin” (James Bond as a Pavka Korchagin: Russian youth in search of a role-model.) (with L. Blednova). Sociologicheskie Issledovania (Sociological Inquiry), 12: 16-24. Moscow: Russian Academy of Sciences.

1997     “Multi-kulturalism po-russki.” (How to translate "multiculturalism" into Russian). Polis. (Political Inquiry), 4:117-125. Moscow, Russian Academy of Sciences.

URL: <http://www.politstudies.ru/fulltext/1997/4/9.htm>

1997     “Pol kak ideologichesckii product: o nekotorih napravleniah v rossiskom feminisme” (Gender as ideological product: on some tendencies in Russian feminism). Chelovek (The Person), 2: 62-75. Moscow: Russian Academy of Sciences.
URL: <http://www.russ.ru/journal/media/98-03-27/ushak.htm>

1996     “Posle modernisma: vlast yazika ili yazik valsti” (After modernism: the language of power or the power of language?).   Obshestvennie nauki i sovremenntost. (The Social Sciences Today), 5: 130-141. Moscow:  Russian Academy of Sciences.

1995     “Rech kak politicheskoe deistvie” (Speech as political act) Polis (Political Inquiry), 5:142-154. Moscow,  Russian Academy of Sciences.
URL: <http://www.politstudies.ru/fulltext/1995/5/14.htm>

1993     “Obrazovanie kak forma vlasti” (Education as  power) Polis (Political Inquiry), 4: 43-48. Moscow,  Russian Academy of Sciences.

1993     “Molodezh kak subject deistvia” (Agency of youth: a review of methodological approaches)  Polis (Political Inquiry), 2:136-143. Moscow,  Russian Academy of Sciences.

1992     “Molodej i studenchestvo kak politicheskii subject” (Students and youth as a political actor) Voprosi Politologii (Studies in Political Science), Barnaul: Altai State University, 85-98 pp.

 

book reviews:

 

2003     “Poznavaia v sravnenii: o evro-standartakh, muzhchinakh i istorii” (Learning from comparison: about euro-standards, men and history). A review of Barbara Evans Clements, Rebecca Friedman and Dan Healey (eds.) Russian Masculinities in History and Culture.  New York: Palgrave Publisher Ltd., 2002. 242 pg.  In: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 2003, № 64.
URL: <http://magazines.russ.ru/nlo/2003/64/usha29-pr.html>

2003     (with Maria Litovskaya). “Muzhestvennost’ v Rossii” (Masculinities in Russia). A review of the conference Masculinities in Russia", University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. June 19-23, 2003. In: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 2003, № 63.
URL: <http://magazines.russ.ru/nlo/2003/63/lit47.html

2002     Zagadki “russkoi dushi” (Mysteries of the “Russian Soul”). A review of: Hellberg-Hirn, Elena. 1998. Soil and Soul: The Symbolic World of Russianness. Aldershot: Ashgate, 289 pp.; Rancour-Laferriere, Daniel. 1995. The Slave Soul of Russia: Moral Masochism and The Cult of Suffering. New York: New York University Press, 330 pp.; Pesmen, Dale. 2000. Russia and Soul: An Exploration. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 364 pp. In: Sotsiologicheskii jurnal (Journal of Sociology), vol. 1. Moscow: Russian Academy of Sciences. URL: <http://www.nir.ru/socio/scipubl/sj/sj2-01ush.html>

1999     Barchunova, Tatiana (ed.) 1998. Potolok pola. Novosibirsk: NGU. In: Sotsiologicheskii jurnal (Journal of Sociology), vol. 1, Moscow: Russian Academy of Sciences.

1999     Roudinesco, Elisabeth.1998. Jacques Lacan. New York: Columbia University Press. In: Vopsosy Filosofii (Philosophical Issues), 1999, No 5.