Professor of Anthropology, European University at St. Petersburg

Dr. Hist. (2009, Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, RAS); Cand. Hist. (1997, Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, RAS); Department of Ethnography, Moscow State University (1987). In 1990–2013 – staff member of the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Russian Academy of Sciences. Scholarly interests: nationalism and Islam in Central Asia, modernization and transformations, migrations, identity and social interaction.