Vera Skvirskaja

Knowledge of languages

English, Danish, Russian, Ukrainian

Primary fields of research

postsocialism, cosmopolitanism, migration, gender, trade, urban markets, political culture, Black Sea region, the Caucasus, Ukraine, Russia, China

Current research

Cultures of trade, practices of coexistence, urban markets, gender, propaganda, mobility and migration, patriotic commodities, social media. The Caucasus, Russia, China, Ukraine. 

Teaching

Propaganda, Russian culture and society, Popular Geopolitics, Economic Anthropology, Sex and Gender, Kinship, Migration, Postsocialism, Qualitative Research Methods, Ethnographic Fieldwork, New Anthropological Theory, Danish Culture and Society 

CV

Education 

1999-2006

Ph.D. in Social Anthropology. University of Cambridge, UK. Title of dissertation:  ‘New Economic Forms and Subjectivity in Post-socialist Russia: the Case of a Rural Periphery, Yamal-Nenets Autonomous District’. 

1998-1999

M.Phil. in Social Anthropology. University of Cambridge, UK

1994-1998 

BA in Anthropology. University of Copenhagen, Denmark

1993-1994 

Department of English, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

1988-1990

Faculty of Roman-Germanic Philology, English Studies, Kiev State University, USSR

EMPLOYMENT (academic positions only)

10 2015 - present Associate Professor, University of Copenhagen, Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies 

09 2010 -  07 2015

Post Doctoral Researcher, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Institute of Anthropology                     

09 2006 - 07 2010

Research Fellow, University of Cambridge, UK. Department of Social Anthropology

09 2005 - 08 2006 

Lecturer. The London School of Economics. Department of Anthropology.

01-05 2005

Academic Staff Assistant, University of Cambridge, Department of Social Anthropology. Full time

10-12 2004

Academic Staff Assistant, University of Cambridge, Department of Social Anthropology. Part time

09 2002 - 01 2003

Teaching Assistant. University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Institute of Anthropology.

RESEARCH COLLABORATIONS AND EXTERNAL FUNDING

2004-2005

Research collaboration on the interdisciplinary project ‘Interaction and Co-existence in Bukhara, Uzbekistan’ as a part of the international project ‘Communities in Interaction: Discourses of conflict, conversion and coexistence in cosmopolitan contexts’, funded by the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi, India. 

09 2006- 07 2008

Research collaboration on the international interdisciplinary project ‘Language Policy in Ukraine: Anthropological, linguistic and further perspectives,’ (UK, Austria, Ukraine), funded by the INTAS, Brussels