Olga
Borisovna KHRISTOFOROVA
CURRICULUM VITAE
Born 1970/05/23, Lukhovitsy,
Moscow Region, USSR
Education
1987-1992
Moscow Lomonosov State University
Historical Faculty
Theme of the thesis: “Voodoo
Cult in the Context of Ethnic History of Haiti”
Grade:
High
Qualification: Diploma of higher
education
1993-1996
Post-graduate Department of the Russian State University for
Humanities, Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities
Theme of the thesis:
“Modeling of Behavior in Archaic Cultures
(small genres of Siberia peoples folklore)”
Research supervisor:
Dr. Elena S. Novik
Degree: Candidate of Sciences
(Cultural Studies)
(Russian
State University for Humanities, Moscow, 1997)
Current Degree Doctor
of Sciences (Philology)
Russian
State University for Humanities, Moscow, 2011)
Teaching Experience
1998- Currently
Senior Lecturer, Assistant Professor, Professor
Russian State University for Humanities
(Courses: Cultural
Studies; Cultural Anthropology; Social Anthropology; Visual Anthropology;
Medical Anthropology; Social Anthropology of Religion; Myth, Symbol
and Ritual)
2001-2002
Guest Lecturer,
Moscow Lomonosov State University
(Course: Visual Anthropology in Russia)
Languages
English (fluent)
Spanish (good)
German (reading knowledge)
French (reading knowledge)
Administrative Experience
1994-1997 Moscow
State Lomonosov University, Centre for Visual Anthropology, Research
Fellow
1997-1998
Russian State University for Humanities, Institute for Cultural Anthropology,
Leading specialist
1998-Currently Russian
State University for Humanities, Centre for Social Anthropology, Senior
Lecturer, Assistant Professor
1998-2002 I-III
Russian Anthropological Film Festival, Secretary of the Organizing Committee,
Member of the Selection Board.
2001-Currently
I-V Moscow International Visual Anthropology Festival, Secretary of
the Organizing Committee.
2011-Currently Russian
State University for Humanities, Centre for Typology and Semiotics of
Folklore, Assistant Professor, Director
Area of study
Social and Cultural Anthropology,
Folklore Studies, Oral History, Visual Anthropology, Medical Anthropology
Fieldwork
1995 Nenets,
Yamalo-Nentskiy National District
2001
Chelkantsy, Altai
2002, 2003 Russian
Orthodox, Moscow and Kaluga regions
2003 Russian
Old believers and Mari, Kirov region
1999, 2000, 2002, 2003,
2004, 2005, 2011 Russian Old believers, The Urals and Udmurtiya
Fellowships and Grants
1997-1999 |
Everyday life in 20-centured
Russia (Joint project) |
Russian Foundation of Fundamental
Researches (RFFI) |
1998-2000 |
Visual Anthropology in Russia.
XX century:
Methods, Sources, and Archives
(Joint project) |
Russian Foundation for Humanities
(RFH) |
2000-2002 |
Visual Anthropology in Russia,
1987-1999:
The Postimperial Ideology and
the Influence of Western Methods (Individual project) |
Research Support Scheme
(Open Society Institute, Prague) |
2003-2004 |
The Role of Communicative
Behavior’s Models in Ethnic Interaction (based on Materials of Yamalo-Nenets
National District) (Individual project) |
ANO INO-Centre, Program “Interregional
Researches in Social Sciences”, Russia |
2004-2005 |
“Poetics of Ethnicity”:
Role of Regional TV and Film Studios in Construction of Ethnic and Cultural
Identity (Individual project) |
ACLS Short-Term Grants in
the Humanities, USA |
2004-2005 |
“Demonic Discourse” in
Post-Soviet Rural Russia: Social and Cultural Functions (on the material
of two confessional communities) (Individual project) |
MacArthur Foundation. Initiative
in the Russian Federation and Post-Soviet States, USA |
2005-2007 |
Constructing Ethnic Identity
in Post-Soviet Russia: The Impact of Regional TV and Film Studios (Individual
project)
|
INTAS Young Scientist Fellowship,
EU |
2010-2012 |
Besieged by the Antichrist:
Resistance and adaptation in
the local Old Believers’ communities under the Soviet regime (Individual
project) |
Gerda Henkel Stiftung, Germany |
Research
stays
April 1996
Dresden, Germany: International Conference “Studies in Popular Religion”.
June 2001
Gottingen, Germany: International Conference “Origins of Visual Anthropology:
Putting the Past Together”.
June-August
2004 London, Great Britain: Guest Scholar on the Royal Anthropological
Institute of Great Britain and Ireland (research theme: “Demonology
in Post-Soviet Rural Russia and in Contemporary Europe: Social and Cultural
Functions”).
July-September 2005, 2006
London, Great Britain: Guest Scholar on the Royal Anthropological Institute
of Great Britain and Ireland (research theme: “Constructing of the
Ethnic Identity in Post-Soviet Russia: The Impact of Regional TV and
Film Studios”).
September-October 2010
Munster, Germany: Guest Scholar on the Munster University (research
theme: “Besieged by the Antichrist: Resistance and adaptation in the
local Old Believers’ communities under the Soviet regime”).
Number of
scholar publications: 106
List of selected publications
published in English:
Current tendencies in Russian
documentaries // XV ICAES 2K3 Humankind/Nature Interaction: Past, Present
and Future. Florence, Italy. July 5-12, 2003. Abstract Book. Vol. II.
P. 1334 (Session “Visual Anthropology”).
Spirit possession in a present-day
Russian village // Folklorica. Journal of the Slavic and East European
Folklore Association. 2010. Vol. XV. P. 27-64.
published in Russian:
Monographs
The Logic of Interpretation:
Folklore and modeling of behavior in archaic cultures. Ìoscow: RSUH,
1998. (Readings on the history and theory of culture. Vol. 25). 114
p.
Witches and
Victims: Anthropology of witchcraft in present-day Russia. Moscow: RSUH,
O.G.I., 2010. 432 p.
Editing
Dreams and
Visions in Folklore / Ed. S. Nekljudov, O. Khristoforova. Moscow: RSUH,
2002. 382 p.
Myth, Symbol
and Ritual. The Peoples of Siberia / Ed. O. Khristoforova. Moscow: RSUH,
2008. 353 p.
Space of Witchcraft
/ Ed. O. Khristoforova. Moscow: RSUH, 2010. 315 p.
Papers
The Analysis of Visual Anthropology
in Russia and abroad // The Material Grounds of Culture. Scientific
and Information Collection. Issue 3. Moscow, 1997. P. 69-80.
Social and cultural aspects
of rhetoric methods in traditional societies // RGGU Bulletin. Vol.
2. Moscow: RSUH, 1998. P. 98-103.
Visual Anthropology in educational
process: Experience and perspectives // Symposium “Opening and Interaction
of Cultures”. The Collection of Russian Anthropological Film Festival
“Salekhard-98”, August 23-30, 1998. Moscow, 1998. P. 70-75.
The rhetoric of the anthropological
film // The Material Grounds of Culture. Scientific and Information
Collection. Issue 4. Moscow, 2000. P. 41-49.
How to escape the misfortune:
The actant structure of behavioral texts // RGGU Bulletin. Vol. 4. Moscow:
RSUH, 2000. P. 405-412.
National stereotypes of communicative
behavior and their influence on ethnic interaction // Language and Ethnic
Conflicts. Moscow, 2001. P. 99-114.
Programming
of behavior in fortune-telling // Proceedings in Cultural Anthropology:
In Memory of Gregory Tkachenko / Ed. V.V. Glebkin. Moscow, 2002. P.
346-356.
Functions of
ritual laugh: Laugh as a sign // Laugh: Origins and Functions /Ed. A.G.Kozintzev.
S-Petersburg, 2002. P. 75-82.
Gaining Gift:
Stories about shaman’s initiation among the Nganasan // Arbor
mundi. Vol. 10. 2003. P. 87-105.
Folklore of
Verkhokamye // Zhivaya starina. 2003. ¹ 3. P. 41-45. (Joint
authorship with M.Akhmetova et al.)
Between scientism
and romanticism: Clifford Geertz on the perspectives in anthropology
// New Literary Review. 2004. ¹ 6 (70). P. 32-39.
Visual Anthropology:
Russian reality and Western experience // Folklore Studies. I All-Russian
Congress. Collected articles. Vol. 2. Ì., 2006. P. 98-110.
Symbolic interpretation
of social discourse: Stories about village sorcerers // Dreams of the
Mother of God: Studies on Anthropology of Religion. S-Petersburg, 2006.
P. 184-202.
The problems
of the conservation and popularization of the culture heritage: Great
Britain’s experience // Observatory of Culture. 2006. ¹ 2. P. 71-75.
“Children
of Nature”, or Ethnic projects of regional TV and film studios //
Ab Imperio. Studies of New Imperial History and Nationalism in the Post-Soviet
Space. 2006. ¹ 3. P. 437-462.
Interpreting
Silence: Peoples’ of Siberia speech etiquette in travel notes
and folklore // Arbor mundi. Vol. 12. 2006. P. 82-194.
Notes of Witchcraft
and Natural Deeds // AB-60. A.K.Bayburin Festschrift on his sixtieth
anniversary / Ed. N.B. Vakhtin, G.A. Levinton at al. S-Petersburg, 2007.
P. 168-176. (Studia Ethnologica. Vol. 4)
The Bear and
the Catfish: the Typology of the motif // Myth, Symbol and Ritual. The
Peoples of Siberia / Eds. S.Nekljudov, O.Khristoforova. Moscow: RSUH,
2008. P. 193-221.
Creating the
future: Mari in front of the camera // Ab Imperio. Studies of New Imperial
History and Nationalism in the Post-Soviet Space. 2007. Vol. 4. P. 261-282.
“I have a
world”: Traditional speech etiquette and problems of ethnic identity
in author's texts // RGGU Bulletin. Literature Theory and Folklore Studies
Series. Moscow: RSUH, 2008. Vol. 9. P. 303-321.
Some problems
of Visual Anthropology in present-day Russia // Audiovisual Anthropology:
Theory and Practice. Moscow, 2008. P. 63-71.
“To know”
and “to do” concepts in the folk culture // “Little Bricks”:
Folklore Studies and cultural anthropology today: S.Yu. Nekliudov Festschrift.
Moscow: RSUH, 2008. P. 364-380.
Unfairy tales
and symbolical stratification of social space // RGGU Bulletin. Literature
Theory and Folklore Studies Series. Moscow: RSUH, 2009. Vol. 9. P. 138-158.
The mythological
tradition of Verkhokam’e // RGGU Bulletin. Literature Theory and Folklore
Studies Series. Moscow: RSUH, 2009. Vol. 9. P. 359-368.
On magicians,
muggles and watches: New old social mythology // Myth in folk traditions
and modern culture. Moscow: RSUH, 2009. P. 35-48. (Readings on the history
and theory of culture. Vol. 57).
Ikota:
On the issue of origin of the mythological personage // Zhivaya starina.
2009. ¹ 4. P. 49-51.
On the issue
of semantics of humanlike images among the Northern Samoyed // RGGU
Bulletin. Philological Sciences. Linguistic Series. Moscow: RSUH, 2010.
Vol. 9. P. 230-239.
Childbirth
pains, or The couvade the Verkhokam’e way // RGGU Bulletin. Literature
Theory and Folklore Studies Series. Moscow: RSUH, 2010. Vol. 11. P.
279-287.
Anthropological
approaches to witchcraft study // Space of Witchcraft / Ed. O. Khristoforova.
Moscow: RSUH, 2010. P. 11-59.
The hunter
and two bears: On the probable source of one Eskimo myth // “Not out
of curiosity, but for the sake of learning”: Yu.B. Symchenko Festschrift
on his 75-th anniversary / Eds. N.A. Dubova, Yu.N. Kvashnin. Moscow,
2011. P. 273-282.
What the
prigovorschik does, or The polysemy as a motif maker // RGGU Bulletin.
Literature Theory and Folklore Studies Series. Moscow: RSUH, 2011. Vol.
9. P. 166-177.
Syllabi
Folklore: The
program of general course for post-graduate department. Moscow: RSUH,
2004. 33 ñ. (Joint authorship with S.Yu.Necklyudov)
Social Anthropology
// Social Anthropology. Syllabuses for the specialty ¹ 350100 «Social
Anthropology». Ì.: RSUH, 2006. P. 78-121 (Joint authorship with Î.Yu.
Artemova et al.)
Social and
Cultural Anthropology. Syllabus. M.: RSUH, 2006 (Joint authorship with
S.Yu. Necklyudov).
Visual Anthropology. Syllabus.
M.: RSUH, 2007.
Myth, Symbol
and Ritual. Syllabus. M.: RSUH, 2007.
Social Anthropology
of Religion. Syllabus. M.: RSUH, 2007.
Number of
conference papers: 77
List of selected papers
presented in
English:
Current trends
in Russian Visual Anthropology (Paper delivered on the Meeting of the
Ethnographic Film Committee, Royal Anthropological Institute of Great
Britain and Ireland, London, July 2004).
presented
in Russian:
Social and
cultural aspects of rhetoric methods in traditional societies (International
Conference “Studies on Popular Religion”, Dresden, Germany, April
1996).
Modeling of
behavior in traditional culture: Studies on functions of folklore (Conference
“Mythology and Everyday Life”, Saint-Petersburg, Russia, February
1998).
Fortune-telling
in Siberian traditional cultures: Foresight or creating the future? (Conference
“World as an action”, Moscow Lomonosov State University, Moscow,
Russia, April 1998).
Visual Anthropology
in education: Experience and perspectives (Symposium “Opening and
Interaction of Cultures”, I Russian Anthropological Film Festival,
Salekhard, Russia, August 1998).
Features of
communicative behavior of peoples of Siberia and their influence on
ethnic interaction (Seminar “Language, mind, culture: Determination
Dependance”, Institute of Linguistics, Russian Academy of Sciences,
Moscow, Russia, November 1998).
Visual Anthropology
in university education (III All-Russian Congress of Ethnographers and
Anthropologists, Moscow, Russia, June 1999).
Functions of
ritual laugh: Laugh as a sign (III All-Russian Congress of Ethnographers
and Anthropologists, Moscow, Russia, July 1999).
Screen image
of ethnic group as reality and as a construct (Seminar “Anthropology
of Post-Soviet Ethnicity”, Carnegie Moscow Center, Moscow, Russia,
October 1999).
Dreaming symbolism
among Khanty (II Siberian symposium “Cultural heritage of peoples
of Western Siberia”, Tobolsk, Russia, December 1999).
The use of
interactive educational facilities in Visual Anthropology (Scientific
Conference “Lomonosov Readings”, Moscow Lomonosov State University,
Moscow, Russia, April 2000).
Ethnographic
film in education (Summer School on Anthropological Film and TV “Keys
to XXI century”, Perm, Russia, June 2001).
Shaman illness
among Nganasan ((International Conference “Folklore and psycho(patho)logy”,
Russian State University for Humanities, Moscow, Russia, October 2001).
The Interpretation
of the social discourse: from “social mechanics” to “cultural
semantics” (International Conference “Studies on Popular Religion:
Current State and Future Trends”, Saint-Petersburg, Russia, September
2002).
Humanlike images
as a human’s symbolical twins (on the material of peoples of Siberia)
(Conference “Living doll”, Russian State University for Humanities,
Moscow, Russia, November 2002).
Teaching experience
in university Visual Anthropology (Round table “Visual Anthropology
and Pedagogic”, Moscow, Russia, December 2002).
The typology
of ritual (I All-Russian Summer School on Folklore Studies, Great Novgorod,
Russia, May 2003).
Stories about
sorcerers in present-day Russian village: Social dimension of folk tradition
(V All-Russian Congress of Ethnographers and Anthropologists, Omsk,
Russia, June 2003).
The audience
of anthropological film (V All-Russian Congress of Ethnographers and
Anthropologists, Omsk, Russia, June 2003).
Social side
of mythological beliefs (IV All-Russian Summer School on Folklore Studies,
Pereslavl-Zalessky, Russia, November 2004).
Regional TV
studios and the screen image of ethnic group (Conference “Media in
the Changing World”, Russian State University for Humanities, Moscow,
Russia, November 2004).
The Bear and
the Catfish: Destiny of one mythological motif (V International Summer
School on Folklore Studies, Moscow–Pereslavl-Zalessky, Russia, May
2005).
Theories of
ritual in foreign anthropology (VI All-Russian Summer School on Folklore
Studies, Pereslavl-Zalessky, Russia, November 2005).
Stories on
witchcraft as a marker of social borders (I All-Russian Folklore Congress,
Moscow, Russia, February 2006).
Social background
of witchcraft beliefs (International Round Table “Witchcraft and magic
in Russia and Great Britain”, Russian State University for Humanities,
Moscow, Russia, May 2006).
Mythology in
everyday life of Old-Believers of the Urals (All-Russian Conference
“Traditional Book and Culture”, Moscow Lomonosov State University,
Moscow, Russia, October 2006).
The Concept
“Knowledge” in the Russian Folk Culture (I Conference “The Modern
Humanities: Dialogue of the Generations”, Moscow, Russia, November
2006).
On magicians,
muggles and watches: New old social myths (XIV Yu.M. Lotman Readings,
Russian State University for Humanities, Moscow, Russia, December 2006).
Holy healing
stories in XIX-XX cent. (VII International Summer School on Folklore
Studies, Moscow–Pereslavl-Zalessky, Russia, May 2007).
About Zande
and beyond: Witchcraft in the history of Social Anthropology (Conference
“Space of witchcraft”, Russian State University for Humanities,
Moscow, Russia, March 2008).
On collectivity
of beliefs and individuality of interpretations (XVII Yu.M. Lotman Readings,
Russian State University for Humanities, Moscow, Russia, December 2009).
Witchcraft
beliefs as a phenomenon of local folklore tradition (Seminar of the
Centre for Typology and Semiotics of Folklore. Russian State University
for the Humanities, Moscow, Russia, May 2010).
A fallen roof
and a sorcerer’s daughter: How the meanings are made (X International
Summer School on Folklore Studies, Moscow–Pereslavl-Zalessky, Russia,
May 2010).
What do
ikota looks like? Old Believers’ manuscripts and folk tradition
(I International Conference “Medieval demonology as a semiotic system:
Image. Text. Folk tradition”, Russian State University for the Humanities,
Moscow, Russia, June 2010).
On “vessels
uncovered”: Greek parable and Russian folk custom (XVIII Yu.M. Lotman
Readings, Russian State University for Humanities, Moscow, Russia, December
2010).
Spirit possession
as a phenomenon of female religiosity (on the data of Russian Old-Believers)
(IX International Conference “Gender dimension of religion”, Moscow
Society for the Study of Religions, Moscow Lomonosov State University,
Moscow, Russia, May 2011).
The hunter
and two bears: On the probable source of one Eskimo myth (IX All-Russian
Congress of Ethnographers and Anthropologists, Petrozavodsk, Russia,
July 2011).
Visual Anthropology
as an educational project (IX All-Russian Congress of Ethnographers
and Anthropologists, Petrozavodsk, Russia, July 2011).
“Superstitions”
as a form of resistance and a political phenomenon (IX All-Russian Congress
of Ethnographers and Anthropologists, Petrozavodsk, Russia, July 2011).
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