Curriculum vitaea
1964.05.22
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: p_rom@mail.ru
Professor at the Department of Social Work and Social Anthropology at Saratov State Technical University, Saratov, Russia
Scientific diploma
2000 - Doctor of Sociology, Saratov State Technical University
1997 - Candidate of Sociology, Institute of Sociology, Moscow
1988 - Diploma in biology, Kuibyshev State University
Academic appointments and education
2000 – until now - Professor at the Department of Social Work and Social
Anthropology at Saratov State Technical University, Saratov
1999- until now - head of the Center for Research of Social Policy in the
Department of Social Work and Social Anthropology at Saratov State
Technical University, Saratov
2000- until now – visiting researcher at the Department of Social Work and
Social Policy at University of Birmingham, UK
2000 - Dr.Sci (=Habilitation), Saratov State Technical University (Thesis in
Sociology: ‘Management as a form of social practice’)
1998-2000 Doctoral Fellow at the Department of Social Work and Social
Anthropology, Saratov State Technical University, Saratov
1998-99 Fulbright Senior Scholar, School of Education, University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
1995 – 1999 Research Fellow at the Institute of Comparative Labor Studies,
Samara branch
1994-1998 - senior Research Fellow at the Sociological lab, Samara State
Pedagogical University
1994-1998 – visiting Lecturer at the College of Sociology, TEMPUS/Tacis
Program, Institute of Sociology, Moscow
1995- 1997 - Postgraduate study in sociology at Institute of Sociology, Russian
Academy of Science, Moscow
1993 - Supplementary study in sociology at Moscow Institute of Youth
1988-90 - Director of Socio-Center, Samara State Pedagogic University
1983-88 - Student of Biology Department, Kuibyshev State University
1981-83 - Metalworker at Kuibyshev Metallurgical Enterprise
Lecturing and other responsibilities
Sociology of management and organization, labor studies, qualitative and
quantitative methods in sociology.
Participated in national and international conferences, research and education
projects sponsored by the TEMPUS/Tacis, Fulbriht, Ford Foundation, INTAS, ODA,
ESRC (UK).
Member of Russian Society of Sociologists, European Sociological Association,
International Sociological Association.
Current research interests
Social Policy, Public and non-profit organizations in transition, cultures of
organizations, gender at work., qualitative research methodology.
Individual research projects and the resources of financial support
The theory and methodology the social anthropology of organization, Grant
98-06-80027, The Russian Foundation for Basic research
Rhetorics and Practices of Modernization in Russian Industries, Grant RSS No:
45/1998, OPEN SOCIETY INSTITUTE;
A Reflective Analysis of Organisational Cultures in Transition: applying the US
research experience, Fulbright Senior Research Grant, 1998.
Selected team research projects and the resources of financial support
The development of NGO’s in Samara region 1998 Know-How Foundation
The restructuring of employment and formation of local labour markets in Russia
1996-
1998 Overseas Department (UK), ESRC
The regional patterns of economic developments in Russia 1996-
1999 ESRC
The effectiveness of new programs for retraining of teachers of English language
in Samara city (evaluation research) 1996 Open Society Institute,
Samara office
Inter-ethnic relationship in the Samara region 1995 Samara Oblast Administration
The social issues of restructuring the coal mine sector of Vorkuta Region (evaluation
research) 1995,
1996 World Bank
The restructuring of social welfare of industrial enterprises in Russia 1994-
1995 ESRC
The restructuring of management and labour relations at industrial enterprises
in Russia 1992-
1995 ESRC, INTAS
Selected publications
Books
1. The sociological theories of management. Textbook. Moscow. Forthcoming.
2. The formal organizations and the informal relations: the case studies of the
practices of management in contemporary Russia. Saratov: SGU, 2000. 190 p. The
sociological interpretations of management: the research of management, control
and organizations in modern society. Saratov: SGTU, 2000. 215 p.
3. Theory and Practice of Volunteer Movement (in collaboration), Saratov, 2000.
90 p.
4. The social anthropology of organizations. Textbook. Saratov, 1999.
5. Current state and dynamics of development of Samara oblast’non-commercial
sector. Sociological research. Samara: IEKA Povolzhje, 1998. (in collaboration).
Papers in English
1. Samara and Krasnodar. In Regional economic change in Russia. Ed by. P.Hanson
and M.Bradshaw. Chaltenham, UK and Northampton, MA, USA: Edward Elgar, 2000
p. 155-184. (in collaboration).
2. 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) pp.113-118
3. Samara oblast's: A Governor and his Gubernya. Communist Economies &
Economic Transformation, Vol. 10, N. 3, 1998. pp. 341-361.(in collaboration).
4. Two Giants of VPK. In: Simon Clarke (Ed) The Russian enterprises in
Transition. Case Studies. Aldershot: Edward Elgar. 1996. pp.69-102 (in
collaboration)
5. The Regional Elite in the Epoch of Bankruptcy. In: Simon Clarke (Ed) Conflict
and Change in the Russian Industrial Enterprises, Aldershot: Edward Elgar. 1996.
pp.120-135.
6. The middle level of management in industrial enterprises of Russia. In: Simon
Clarke (Ed) Management and industry in Russia. Aldershot: Edward Elgar, 1995.
pp.45-61.
7. Our Understanding of Paternalism. In: Simon Clarke (Ed) Management and
industry in Russia: Formal and Informal Relations in the Period of Transition,
Aldershot: Edward Elgar, 1995. (in collaboration).
8. Russian managers in epoch of market reforms: The contradictions of transition
from paternalistic to radical liberal consciousness /TUSCON III Conference,
Abstract No:928, http://www.zynet.co.uk/imprint/ , Univ.of Arizona, Arizona, USA,
1998.
Articles in Russian (titles are translated)
1. The marginal practices in the employment: the ethnography of work, in: Gender.
Power. Culture. A social-anthropological approach. Saratov: SGTU, 2000. pp.
143-149. In Russian.
2. The management as a form of social practice, in: Sociology and society. SPb:
Skifia, 2000. pp. 422-423. In Russian.
3. The non-partisan associations: organizational nature. In: Development of
institutions of civil society. Saratov: PAGS, 2000. Pp. 73-78. In Russian.
4. The social-qualification groups under the transition of Russia towords market
economy. In The transformation of social space in the post-communist
states and the new approaches in social sciencies. Samara: Samara humanitarian
academy press, 1998. pp.39-47
5. Brother in fragments: essey on represenration of postmodern musculinity.
Socio-Cultural Analysis of Gender Relations ed. by Elena Iarskaia-Smirnova.
Saratov: SSU, 1998. pp.24-31
6. "Making ordinary unfamiliar" Ethnographical method in sociology. In:
Sociological Journal, 1998. No.1/2. pp.36-64.
7. Procedures, strategies, approaches of "social ethnography".
In:Sociological Journal. 1996. N 3/4. pp.138-149.
8. The national idea: sociological issue. In.: Samara region: ethnicity and
culture, 1996, P. 16-18.
9. The metallurgy enterprise Prokat on a way to market. In: A big industrial
enterprises: restructuring of management and labor relations (case-studies
1992-1995 years). Ed. by V.Kabalina, Moscow: IMEMO RAN, 1996, P. 8-40. In
collaboration.
10. The symbolic codes of qualitative research. The International Conference
'Social Knowledge: Formations and Transformations', vol. 1,Kazan: KGU, 1996, P.
79-87.
11. The attitudes of populations of Samara to miners strike movement //
Inter-regional sociological conference 'Values and social behavior in transition
society. Samara: SOFSI, 1995, P. 107-119.
Recent presentations at international conferences:
Ethnography of Russian boarding school for disabled children
Conference “The politics of gender and education” April 4-6, 2001, London,
Institute of Eduvation
(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
Recomposition of gender relations in Russian confectionary factory
Conference ‘Women and Power’ at the University of London, london,
October, 6-9, 1999
'Where else we can find such sweet job...'
Annual Meeting of American Sociological Association "Transitions in World
Society: At Century's End”, August 6-10, 1999, Chicago
Presentations at colloqiums and lectures
The new 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 Cities? Eyewitness Accounts from the Regions
of Samara and Saratov
Lecture at the Russian Studies Center, Stetson University at DeLand, FL,
February 25, 1999
The concept of professionalism in todays Russia,
Colloquium presentation at the School of Educatin, UNC at Chapel Hill, April 5,
1999
The modernization of the industry and society in contemporary Russia,
Colloquium presentation at the Department of Sociology, University of Geteborg,
September 22, 1998.
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