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Academic Degree: Doct. of Historical Sc. |
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Academic Rank: Professor |
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Position: Professor of the Department of Anthropology (The Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies), professor of Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs, Georgetown University
Affiliation: Georgetown University |
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General Information: Education and Training, Previous Employing Institutions
Education and Training: University of Pennsylvania, bachelor degree Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, M. A. degree, PhD |
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Employment History: Universities of Illinois and Pennsylvania Post-doctoral fellowships at Harvard (Columbia) and the Woodrow Wilson Center's Kennan Institute Editor-in-chief of the Anthropology and Archeology of Eurasia journal
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Research Interests: social theory, inter-ethnic relations, religion, the dynamics of nationalism, and the anthropology of the Russian Federation |
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List of Most Essential Works:
Monographs: Balzer M. M. (ed.) Shamanic Worlds: Rituals and Lore of Siberia and Central Asia. Routledge, 1997. Balzer M. M. The tenacity of ethnicity: a Siberian saga in global perspective. Princeton University Press, 1999. Balzer M. M. (ed.) Religion and Politics in Russia. New-York–London, 2010. Balzer M. M. Shamans, Spirituality, and Cultural Revitalization: Explorations in Siberia and Beyond. New-York, 2011. Balzer M. M. Interrelating Politics, Ecology and Spirituality in Siberia’s Far East: Sakha, Buryatia and Tuva. 2013. 6. Balzer M. M., Bremer J., Ginzburg C. Horizons of Shamanism. Stockholm, 2016.
Articles: Balzer M. M. Indigenous Cosmopolitans, Ecological Defense, and Activism in Russia's Siberia and the Far East. Siberian Historical Research. 2014. № 2. P. 15–38. |
