Veronika V. Simonova
Position: Head of Center of Arctic and Siberian Exploration (CASE) and Senior Research Fellow at the Sociological Institute Federal Center of Theoretical and Applied Sociology, Russian Academy of Science; Leading Research Fellow at the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), Department of Ethnosocial and Ethnoeconomical Studies of Geosystems; Associate Professor of the Department of History, Philosophy, Cultural Studies, at the Higher School of Technology and Energy (HSTE). Member of the Council on Welfare and Sustainable Development under the President of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia); Chairwoman on traditional fishing issues and an expert of public organization «Council of Indigenous Minorities».
Academic degrees: Doctor of Science in Social Anthropology; Ph.D. in Sociological Sciences
Education: Doctor of Philosophy in Social Anthropology University of Aberdeen, UK 2013
Research interests: Arctic sociology and anthropology, sociological monitoring and ethnological expertise in the Arctic; informal economy and traditional nature use; illegal fishing in Russia; cultural ecology; traditional ecological knowledge and sacred economy; gathering of non-timber forest resources and ethno-economic institutions of indigenous peoples of the North; interaction between indigenous peoples of the North and major subsoil user companies; transformation of Arctic economic practices under digitalization; sociology of space; anthropology of landscape; social memory; Arctic: European and Eastern Arctic; Siberia; Asian North.
Courses:
- Sociology
- Ethnosociology
- Research Project Design
- Ideas and Methods in Arctic Anthropology
- Tayozhny Alliance: Anthropology of Human-Landscape Relations in Northern Baikal
- Frontier Anthropology, Ethnography of the Siberian Region, and Anthropology of Religion
- Anthropology Theory
- Sociology (Sociology of Science, Social Politics, World Politics)
- Introduction to Anthropology
- Aboriginal Rights
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