Dr. Sergey Erofeev
Vita
PhD in Sociology, Kazan State University (1997)
Research MA in Sociology, University of Kent, UK (1994)
Kazan State Conservatoire, USSR (1986)
Previously held positions
2003–2007 Vice-Rector for International Affairs, Kazan State University
2000–2001 Research Fellow, School of Social Sciences, University of Wales, Bangor, UK
Projects and grants
2005–2007 ‘Tolerance and Intolerance in the Post-Soviet Press: Applying New Methods of Measurement and Evaluation’ (INTAS)
2001–2007 ‘Specialized Courses in Sociology’ (Ford Foundation)
1994–2006 EU Tempus-Tacis curriculum development and university management projects
2003 ‘Sociology of Culture’ section, ‘ECSOCMAN Internet Portal’ (Moscow Higher School of Economics)
2000–2001 ‘Cultural Power and the Transition in a Russian Region’ (Leverhulme Trust, UK)
Founder and director, Centre for the Sociology of Culture at Kazan State University
Principal organizer: international conferences ‘Social Knowledge: Formations and Interpretations’ (1996), ‘Whose Culture? An Agenda for Social Research on Cultures in Transition’ (1998), ‘Innovation in Social Sciences: The Future of Research and Teaching’ (2001), ‘Russian and European Higher Education: General Bologna Strategies and Regional Practices’ (2004)
Research Areas
- Social and cultural theory
- sociology of culture and the media
- Russian cultural studies
Function within the Center
Alumnus of the Institute for Advanced Study Konstanz (December 2010-January 2011)
Research project “Missing a Turn: Culturalized Discourses of Theory in Russia”
Abstract
Selected Publications
2011 (forthcoming) Erofeev, S. and Davis, H. ‘Reframing Society and Culture in Post-Soviet Russia’. Comparative Sociology
2007 Davis, H. and Erofeev, S. ‘The Regional and the Global in the context of Changing Cultural Production’, in: Regionologia no. 4, 2007, pp. 5-14.
2004 Erofeev, S., Modestov, V. and Foursova, V. (eds.), Sociology of Education: Theory, Research and Problems. Key texts in translation from English and French, Kazan University Press.
2001 Erofeev, S., ‘The Study of Russian Cultural Transformation and the Discourse of Culture’, in: S. Erofeev and L. Nizamova (eds.), Post-Soviet Cultural Transformation: Media and Ethnicity in Tatarstan in the 1990s, Kazan University Press, pp.15-36.
2001 2nd edition: Contexts of Modernity – 2: Current Problems of Society and Culture in Western Social Theory. Key texts in translation from English, Kazan University Press (editor and translator).
2001 Erofeev, S. and Nizamova, L. (eds.), Post-Soviet Cultural Transformation: Media and Ethnicity in Tatarstan in the 1990s, Kazan University Press.
2000 Erofeev, S. and Davis, H., ‘Media Studies and the Problems of Cultural Fragmentation in Post-Soviet Society’, in: Post-Soviet Society: New Research Methods and Models of Interpretation, Moscow Institute of Sociology, pp.27-52.
1999 Erofeev, S. (ed.) Whose Culture? An Agenda for Social Research on Cultures in Transition, Kazan: Terra-Consulting.
1998 Erofeev, S. and Shatunova, T. (eds.), The Problems of Cultural Identity, Kazan: Eco-Centre.
1996 Erofeev, S. (ed.), Social Knowledge: Formations and Interpretations, Part 1 and 2, Kazan: Fort-Dialogue.