Elena Iarskaia-Smirnova

Department of Social Anthropology and Social Work, Saratov State Technical University
 
 

77 Politechnicheskaia, Saratov 410054, Russia
Tel. +7 8452 526638                  Fax +7 8452 506837             Email: iarskaia@yahoo.com

http://edu-action.narod.ru    http://sstu-socwork.da.ru
 
 

Academic appointments and education
1999  Full Professor, Department of Social Work, Saratov State Technical University

1998-99 Fulbright Senior Scholar, School of Social Work, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA

since 1997 Head, Department of Social Work, Saratov State Technical University

1997  Dr.Sci (=Habilitation), Saratov State Technical University (Thesis in Sociology: Sociocultural Analysis of Otherness)

1996-97 Post-Qualifying courses at Institute of Sociology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow

1995  Courses in sociology at the University of Goteborg, Sweden

1994-99 Associate Professor, Department of Social Work, Saratov State Technical University

1994  Visiting ACTR scholar, School of Social Work, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA

1991-93  Assistant Professor, Department of Social Work, Saratov State Technical University

1992-93  Graduate courses, Department of Social Work, University of Goteborg, Sweden (MSc in Social Work)

1989-90  Research associate, Laboratory of Sociology, Saratov Polytechnic Institute

1989  Graduate courses in scoiology at Moscow Institute of Youth

1989 PhD, Saratov State University (kandidatskaia degree in philosophy, thesis: Philosophical analysis of folk culture)

1985-89  Postgraduate student, Department of Philosophy, Saratov State University

Student, Department of Mathematics, Saratov State University
 
 
 
 

Grants and honors
2000 President of Russia Prize in Education

2000-2002 Civic Education Project Eastern Scholar program

2000-2001 MacArthur Foundation individual research and writing grant

1998-99 Fulbright Senior Fellowship

1994 ACTR scholarship for a study visit at UNC-CH, USA
 
 

Professional memberships
Since 1999  International Federation of Social Workers

Since 1998  International and European Sociological Associations

Since 1997  Russian Academy of Social Education

Since 1994  Inter-University Consortium for International Social Development
 
 

Selected recent publications (Russian titles are translated)
 
 

Books
1. Sociocultural Analysis of Otherness. Saratov: Saratov State Technical

University, 1997. 272 p.

2. A Family with Atypical Child. Sociocultural Aspects. Saratov: Saratov

State University, 1996. 198 p.

3. Professional Ethics of Social Work. Moscow: Klutch-S, 1999. 114 p.

4. Theory and Practice of Volunteer Movement (in collaboration with Pavel

Romanov and Elena Bariabina), Saratov, 2000. 90 p.

5. An Introduction to Sociocultural Anthropology (in collaboration),

Saratov, 1996.
 
 
 
 

Articles in English
1. Social change and self-empowerment: stories of disabled people in Russia // Disability and the Life Course: global perspectives. Mark Priestley (ed) Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 2001. pp.101-112.

2. Social Work in Russia: Professional Identity, Culture and the State

In: International Perspectives in Social Work - Social Work and the State.

Bogdan Lesnik (ed), Pavilion Publishing: Brighton, 1999. pp.31-44.

3. "What the future will bring I do not know..." Mothering Children with

Disabilities in Russia and the Politics of Exclusion In: Frontiers. Journal

for Women Studies, 2, 1999. pp. 58-86.

4. A New Face of the Old Problem: The Centre-Periphery Dimension of

Informational Resources in Russian Social Sciences, In: Information

Dissemination and Access in Russia and Eastern Europe.

Problems and Solutions in East and West. Ed. by Rachel Walker

and Marcia F.Taylor. Amsterdam, Berlin, Oxford: IOS Press, 1998 (in

collaboration with Pavel Romanov) pp.113-118

5. When There is a Handicapped Child in the Family, In: Russian

Education and Society. A journal of translations, October 1997: 54-68.

6. Comparison of Russian Family Life Then and Now. In: Social Development

Issues. 1996. Vol.18 (1). pp.53-65.
 
 

Articles in Russian (titles are translated)

1. The concept of hidden curriculum, In: Gender Research, 1(5), 2001: 295-301.

2. Ethnographic imagination in sociology (in collaboration with Pavel Romanov), In: Ethnographic Review, 2, 2000.

3. Views from Outside, views from Inside. "Mother Russia" in Post-Soviet

anthropology, In: Gender Research, 3, 1999: 253-274

4. The Social Construction of Disability, In: Sociological Research, 4, 1999: 38-45.

5. Three colors in the installation of pluralism: an analysis of

cinematic representation of social inequality (in collaboration with

Pavel Romanov), In: To Whom Belongs Culture? Social Sciences and

Perspectives of Research, Kazan, 1999: 96-108.

6. Making Ordinar Unfamiliar: Ethnographic Approach in Sociology (in

collaboration with Pavel Romanov), In: Sociological Journal, 1/2, 1998:

145-160

7. Narrative analysis in sociology, In: Sociological Journal, 3, 1997: 38-61

8. When the Family has a Child with Handicap, In: Sociogical Research, 1, 1997: 83-90.
 
 
 
 

Book reviews in Russian (titles are translated):

1. Social Gerontology (for the students of higher education) by Iazemirskaia R.S.

and Belen'kaia I.G. In Sociological Researh, 7, 2000.

2. A Window into Russian Private Life. Couples in 1996, by Vannoy, Rimashevskaia

et al. Moscow: Academia, 1999. In: Sociological Research, 5, 2000

3. Russianness as Diagnosis. Review of a book by D.Rancour-Laferier "The

Slave Soul of Russia. Moral Masohism and the Cult of Suffering", In:

Journal of Sociology and Social Anthropology, 1, 2000: 197-200.
 
 

Recent presentations at international conferences in English:
 
 

Teaching Gender and Disability: A Hidden Curriculum in a Boarding School

The Politics of Gender and Education, Institute of Education, University of London, 4-6 April 2001
 
 
 
 

Services for Children with Special Needs in Today?s Russia

12th Annual Research Conference of the Research and Training Center for Children?s Mental Health ?A System of Care for Children?s Mental Health: Expanding the Research Base?, February 21-24, 1999 at Clearwater, FL
 
 

Social Work Education in Russia: Accomplishments and Concerns

45th Annual Meeting of the Council on Social Work Education, the Board Meeting and Regional Meeting of Inter-University Consortium for International Social Development, March 10-14, 1999, San Francisco, CA
 
 

(Re)composition of Ethnic Identities in a Large Russian City

Fourth Annual ASN (Association for the Study of Nationalities) Conference ?Rethinking Identities: State, Nation, Culture?, April 15-17, 1999 at Harriman Insitute, Columbia University, New York
 
 

At the Margins of Memories, 1940-1953: Provincial Identity and Soviet Power in Oral Histories Conference ?Provincial Lanscapes: the Local Dimensions of the Soviet Power, 1917-1953?, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, April 23-25, 1999
 
 

Gender Studies in Russia: Accomplishments and Concerns

Conference ?Women and Development? at the School of Social Work University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, June 6-9, 1999
 
 

Professionalization of Social Work in Russia, 1990s.

Annual Meeting of American Sociological Association "Transitions in World Society: At Century's End?, August 6-10, 1999, Chicago
 
 

Social Support System for Persons with Disabilities in Today?s Russia

Conference Creating Futures Together of the TASH (The Association for the Severely Handicapped), Seattle WA, December 2-5, 1998
 
 
 
 

Presentations at colloqiums and lectures in English
 

Services for Children with Mental Health Problems in Russia Today

Lecture for Social Work graduate students, November 20, 1998
 
 

The Emergence of Caring Professions in Russia, 1990s

Colloqium presentation at the Department of Sociology UNC January 20, 1999
 
 

Current issues of the development of service NGOs in Russia

Roundtable discussion at the Center of Regional and Urban Studies, UNC at Chapel Hill, January 15, 1999
 
 

Individual Freedom and Labor Relations in Stalin?s Russia,

Lecture at the Russian Studies Center, Stetson University, February 24, 1999
 
 

Time of Troubles in Provincial Crisis? Eyewitness Accounts from the Regions of Samara and Saratov

Lecture at the Russian Studies Center, Stetson University at DeLand, FL, February 25, 1999
 
 

Changing Social Conditions in Russia, 1990s
Colloquium presentation at the School of Social Work, UNC at Chapel Hill, April 5, 1999
 

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