TCHOUIKINA SOFIA
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Senior Researcher, Centre for Independent Social Research (CISR)
Associated Research Fellow at the European University at Saint-Petersburg (EUSPb)
Tel (00-7-812) 498 -00-24
Fax (00-7-812) 718-37-96
E-mail: centre@indepsocres.spb.ru (please, make note “for Sofia Tchouikina”)
Born 10 April 1974 in Leningrad
DEGREES:
Doctoral degree in sociology (“Kandidat nauk”) of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Dissertation title: “Life-Trajectories of the former nobility in the Soviet Society: Leningrad,
1920s-1930s” (2000).
MA (Master of Arts in Sociology) of the European University of St.Petersburg, validated by the
University of Helsinki (1997). Dissertation title: “Social Milieu of Landed Gentry: Continuity
and Change”.
Diplom of the Faculty of Sociology of the St.Petersburg State University. (1996). Title of the
graduation paper: “The use of biographical methods in the study of the dissident milieu (case of
Leningrad, 1956-1985)”.
RESEARCH ACTIVITIES:
Individual Research Projects:
2006-2007 (current research project)
The Cultural Heritage and the City Politics in Russia and in Europe (supported by Dynastia
Foundation and Research Center Res Publica)
1997-2005
The Russian Noble Families in Stalin’s Times: Reconversion and Cultural Inertia (supported by
the European University at St.Petersburg, Kone Foundation (Finland, Post-Doctoral Prize),
Bourse Diderot – Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, Paris)
1993-1996
Women in the dissident movement (1956-1985)
(supported by the Heinrich Boell Foundation and the Centre for Independent Social Research)
Participation in the collective research projects:
2005 “Everyday esthetics in the 1960s“ (Supported by Leverhulme trust, project leader Susan
E.Reid, University of Sheffield)
2004-2005 “The evaluation of effectiveness of the international programs for Russian art
managers“ (Supported by CEC International Partnership and the Trust for Mutual
Understanding, project leaders K.Gerasimova and S.Katz).
2000-2003
“St.Petersburg: Post-Soviet Identifications” (Supported by the Finnish Academy of Sciences,
project leader Prof. Elena Hellberg-Hirn)
1998-2000
“Norms, values and transition in the Soviet Society and Culture in the 1920s-1950s” (Finnish
Academy of Sciences, project leader Prof. Timo Vihavainen)
1994-1995
“Soviet dissidence as a social movement” (supported by CISR)
1991-1993
“The history of resistance in the USSR (1953-1964)” and “The history of the Solowki
concentration camp in 1923-1939” (Scientific-Information Center “Memorial”).
TEACHING:
Teaching with support from the Carnegie Corporation of New York (“A Regional Network for
Social Sciences in Russia” in cooperation with the University of Michigan).
2006/2007 –Cherepovets State University. Course : « Urban sociology »
2005/2006, 2004/2005, 2003/2004 - Kazan State University
Courses: “Sociology of Elite” (2003, 2004), “Sociology of Culture and Mass Media”
(2004), “Cultural Policy and Management in Arts Organization” (2005).
2003 January: Renvall Institute, University of Helsinki. Course: “Everyday life of a Soviet City
in the 1920s and 1930s“ (intensive lecture course, 20 hours)
SCHOLARSHIPS:
In France:
January-July 2002, March-May 2003, November 2004 - February 2005
Visiting Scholar in Centre d’étude des mouvements sociaux (EHESS / CNRS, Paris) with the
Diderot Fellowship (Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, Paris)
2000 September-December
Scholarship at the Sciences Po (Ecole des sciences politiques, Paris) with Tempus Grant
In Finland:
1998 (April-May), 1999 (January-April), 2000 (April-June)
Visiting scholar at the faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Helsinki, Finland with the
CIMO Fellowship
In Germany :
September 1995 – February 1996
Student at the Department of Sociology, University of Bielefeld with DAAD Scholarship
ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE:
2006/2007
Coordinator of the research seminars of the Centre “Res Publica” at the European University at
St.Petersburg
2006/2007
Coordinator of the research seminars on the “Sociology of the urban space” at the Centre for
Independent Social Research (with D.Vorobyev).
2004
Co-editing of the journal “Ab Imperio” (№1, 2004)
1997-1998
Coordinator of inter-regional network of young researchers and the organisation of the seminars
on the topic “Spatial segregation in the Russian Cities” (Financed by MONF Foundation,
Moscow)
PUBLICATIONS:
Monograph (In Russian):
Dvorianskaia pamiat : “byvshie” v sovetskom gorode (Leningrad, 1920-30e gody).
St.Petersburg : Izdatelstvo Evropeiskogo Universiteta, 2006. 259 p.
[Noble memory: The “Former People” in the Soviet City (Leningrad, 1920-30s. St.Petersburg:
EUSPb Press, 2006. 259 p.]
Scientific publications (articles) in English, French and German:
(I mark with asterisk publications in peer-reviewed journals)
*Le “Grand Compromis” et la mémoire familiale: les ex-nobles russes à l’époque stalinienne //
Revue d’études comparatives Est-Ouest, 2006, Vol.37., №3. Pp. 165-197.
*La noblesse russe à l’épreuve de la Révolution d’Octobre : représentations et reconversions //
Vingtième siècle. Revue d’histoire. (Forthcoming in 2007, in co-authorship with Monique de
Saint-Martin).
Russian Society’s Contradictory Perceptions of the 60th Anniversary of Victory // Kultura:
Russian Cultural Review, 2005. December. №3. Pp. 10-15.
“Old” and “New” Intelligentsia and the Soviet State // The Soviet Union - a Popular State?
Studies on Popular Opinion in the USSR / T. Vihavainen (ed.) (//Советская власть – народная
власть? Очерки истории народного восприятия советской власти в СССР / Под ред.
Т. Вихавайнена). СПб.: Европейский дом, 2003. С. 88–113.
Anti-Soviet Biographies: The Dissident Milieu and its Neighbouring Milieux // Biographical
Research in Eastern Europe. Altered Lives and Broken Biographies / R. Humphrey, R. Miller,
E. Zdravomyslova (eds.). Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003. Pp. 129–139.
“Ich war keine Dissidentin”: Politische Biographien der antisowjetischen Dissidentenbewegung
(1956-1985) // Politische Biographien und sozialer Wandel / I. Miethe and S. Roth (Hrsgg.).
Giessen: Psychosozial-Verlag, 2000. S. 205-224.
The Boundaries of the Dissident Milieu // Biographical Perspectives on Post-Socialist Societies.
Proceedings of the Seminar Held in St. Petersburg (13-17 November 1996) / V. Voronkov, E.
Zdravomyslova (eds.). St. Petersburg: CISR, 1997. Working Papers. No 5. Pp. 154-157.
The Open House and its Hostess (from the History of the Participants of the Dissident
Movement) // Feminist Theory and Practice: East-West. Proceedings of the International
Conference (St. Petersburg, Repino, 9-12 June 1995). St. Petersburg: Petersburg Center for
Gender Issues, 1997. Pp. 201-208.
The Role of Women Dissidents in Creating the Milieu // Women's Voices in Russia Today / E.
Haavio-Mannila, A. Rotkirch (eds.). Aldershot: Dartmouth Publishing Company Limited, 1996.
Pp. 189-205.
Scientific publications in Russian :
*The Museums of National History and XX century literature in contemporary Russia:
Treatment of Soviet experience and strategies of crisis management [Muzei otechestvennoi
istorii i literatury XX veka v sovremennoi Rossii] // NLO. 2005. №74. P. 482-506.
*Biographical Interview and the Sociology of Memory [Biograficheskoe interview i soziologia
pamiati] // Ab Imperio. 2004. №1. P. 291-309.
*The Repair Society [Obschestvo remonta] // Neprikosnovennyi zapas. 2004. №2(34). P.70-77.
(In co-authorship with Gerasimova K.)
The Name-problem and Family memory in the “Former” Noble Families in the 1920s – 1950s
[Problema imeni i semeinoi pamyati v semyah byvshih dvoryan v 1920e-30e gody] // The Right
for Name: The XX century biographies. [Pravo na imia: biografii XX veka] St.Petersburg: CISR,
SIC “Memorial”, 2004. P.150-172.
Images of St.Petersburg in the Media: 1998-2003 [Imidzhi Peterburga v Presse: 1998-2003] //
Saint-Petersburg in the Mirror of Sociology [Sankt-Peterburg v zerkale soziologii]. SPb:
Kovalevsky-society publications, 2003. P.59-79.
“Everyday Life is Inseparable from Politics”: Official and Unofficial Norms of Sexual Morality
in the Soviet Society in the 1930s – 1980s [“Byt neotdelim ot politiki”: ofizialnye i neofizianlye
normy polovoi morali v sovetskom obschestve 1930-80h godov] // In Search for Sexuality [V
poiskakh seksualnosti]. Ed. by E.Zdravomyslova and A.Temkina. SPb: Dmitry Bulanin, 2002. P.
99-127.
*Reconfiguration of Social practices: The Family of Landed Gentry in Pre- and PostRevolutionary Russia (1870s – 1930s) [Rekonfiguratsia sozialnyh praktik: Semia pomestnyh
dvoryan v do- i poslerevolutsionnoi Rossii ] \\ Soziologicheskie issledovania / Sociological
Research. 2000. №1. С. 81-92.
Symbolic Boundaries and the ”Consumption” of Urban Space, Leningrad, 1930s
[Simvolicheskie granitsy i “potreblenie” gorodskogo prostranstva, Leningrad, 1930e gody] \\
Russian urban space: approaches to conceptualisation [Rossiiskoe gorodskoe prostranstvo:
popytka osmyslenia]. M: MONF. 2000. P. 127-153. (In co-authorship with Gerasimova K.)
From Capitalist Petersburg to Socialist Leningrad: Change of Social and Spacial Structure of the
City in the 1930s [Ot kapitalisticheskogo Peterburga k sozialisticheskomu Leningradu:
izmenenie sozialno-prostranstvennoi struktury goroda v 1930e gody] // Norms and values of
everyday life. The becoming of socialist way of life in Russia in the 1920s – 1950s [Normy i
tsennosti povsednevnoi zhisni]. SPb: Neva, Letnii Sad, 2000. P. 27-74. (In co-authorship with
Gerasimova K.)
The Ex-Aristocrates on the Soviet Labor Market (Leningrad, 1917-1941) [Dvoryane na
sovetskom rynke truda] // Norms and values of everyday life… P.151-192.
Leningrad and Leningradians of the 1930s as Reflected in the Interviews [Leningrad i
leningradsy 1930h godov v interview] // Interview with leningradians of the 1930s / Ed. by
Vituhnovskaja M. SPb: Neva, 2000. P. 3-17 [Na korme vremeni: interview s leningradzami
1930h godov]. (In co-authorship with Vituhnovskaja M., Gerasimova K.)
The Participation of Women in the Dissident Movement, 1956-1985 [Uchastie zhenschin v
dissidentskom dvizhenii, 1956-1985] // Gender dimension of social and political activism in the
Russian transformation [Gendernoe izmerenie sozialnoi i politicheskoi aktivnosti v perehodnyi
period] / Ed. by E.Zdravomyslova and A.Temkina. CISR Publications. #4. SPB. 1996. P. 61-81.
Translations of sociological writings from English into Russian:
Vihavainen T. The Inner Adversary. (Transl. from English into Russian by K.Gerasimova and
S.Tchouikina). SPb: Kolo, 2004.
Smith D. Sociological Theory: Methods of Writing Patrriarchy: Feminism and Sociological
Theory (translated into Russian by T.Barchunova and S.Tchouikina) // Reader of Feminist Texts.
Ed by E.Zdravomyslova and A.Temkina. St.Petersburg, 2000. P. 29-63.
PRESENTATIONS AT THE CONGRESSES, CONFERENCES, SEMINARS:
Congresses:
- « Dissident Movements in the Soviet Union and the German Democratic Republic: A
Comparison on the Basis of Biographical Analysis ».
XV ISA World Congress of Sociology. Research Committee 48 « Social Movements, Collective
Action and Social Change ». Brisbane, Australia, 7-13 July 2002. (Paper prepared in
collaboration with Dr.Ingrid Miethe, Darmstadt).
- « Transmission of family memory by the ex-aristocrates after the revolution of 1917 in
Russia ».
« Visions and Division: Challenges to European Sociology »: Fifth Conference of the European
Sociological Association (Research Network « Biographical Perspectives on European
Societies »). Helsinki, Finland, 18-21 August 2001.
- « Dvoryanstvo in the Soviet City (Leningrad, 1920s – 1930s) ».
VI World Congress for Central and East European Studies. Organized by International Council
for Central and East European Studies (ICCEES). Tampere, Finland, 29 July – 3 August 2000.
International conferences and seminars (selection) :
- « Contradictory social meaning of post-soviet city space: the experience of artistic sociological
intervention in a workers’ district of Saint-Petersburg ».
« Urban Contact Zone », Konferenz zur Prasentation und Diskussion neuer sozio-kultureller
Projekte im Stadtraum, unter besonderer Berucksichtigung von Metropolen in Neuen Europa.
Deichtorhallen Haus der Photographie. Hamburg, 25-29 Mai 2006 (Organizers:
Kulturorganisation « Projektgruppe »: M.Wucher, C. Rauch).
- « The Thousandth Anniversary of Kazan as Common Good and Common Disaster ».
« Enhancing Democracy at the Local Level: Cross-Cultural Comparisons », International
Seminar, European University at St.Petersburg. 12-13 May 2006 (Organizers: E. Ponarin,
B.Zimmerman).
- « “Ich war keine Dissidentin”: Politische Biographien der antisowjetischen
Dissidentenbewegung (1956-1985) ».
« Politische Biographien und sozialer Wandel » [Political Biographies and Social Change].
International Conference. Evangelische Akademie Berlin-Brandenburg. Berlin, 11-13 June 1999.
(Organisers: I.Miethe, S.Roth).
- «Narratives on marriage, adultery and divorce in the biographical interviews with Soviet
Women».
« Collective Action ». An International research Seminar organized by the Department of
Sociology, University of Helsinki. 29 August – 2 September 1998 (Organizers: M.Lonkila,
R.Alapuro)
- «Official and Unofficial Norms of Sexual Morality in the Soviet Society in the 1920s- 1980s».
« Gender and Sexuality ». Finnish-Russian research seminar at the Department of Social
Policy, University of Helsinki, January 1997 (Organised by A.Rotkirch).
- « The Boundaries of the Dissident Milieu ».
« Biographical Perspectives on Post-Socialist Societies », International Seminar, organized by
the Centre for Independent Social Research in collaboration with ESA Network « Biographical
Perspectives on European Societies ». St. Petersburg. 13-17 November 1996 (Organizers :
V.Voronkov, E.Zdravomyslova).
-« The Open Home and its Hostess (from the History of the Participants of the Dissident
Movement) ».
« Feminist Theory and Practice: East-West », International Conference, organized by Center for
Gender Issues, St. Petersburg, Repino. 9-12 June 1995. (Organizer : O.Lipovskaia).
- « The Role of Women Dissidents in Creating the Milieu ».
Russian-Finnish Research seminar at the Department of Social Policy, University of Helsinki.
November 1995 (Organised by A.Rotkirch and E.Haavio-Mannila).
AWARDS:
The prize of the Russian scientific review Soziologicheskie issledovania (“Sociological
Research”) in the nomination “Successful debut” of the year 2000
FOREIGN LANGUAGES:
Russian native, English excellent, French excellent, German good
SCIENTIFIC INTERESTS:
Historical Sociology, Sociology of Memory, Sociology of Elite, Urban Studies.