Nataliya Aluferova

Education

2022 — present PhD fellow, Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Hamburg. Thesis: (Dis)Trust and suspicion: perceptions of vaccinations among Russian-speaking people in Germany

2018 — 2020 MA in Sociology, Sociology Department, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, Moscow. Thesis: The Adaptation Process of Urban Teachers in Rural Communities (II)

2018 — 2019 MA in Sociology, Sociology Department, Manchester University and The Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences (With merit). Thesis: The Adaptation Process of Urban Teachers in Rural Communities

2016 — 2019 MA in Cultural Anthropology, Anthropology Department, European University at St. Petersburg. Thesis: Sealed windows: public / private dichotomy in a village in the south of the Tambov region

2012 — 2016 BA in Sociology, St. Petersburg School of Social Science and Humanities, Higher School of Economics (With honors). Thesis: Inattention in a structure of social interaction in a classroom

 

Selected experience

03. 2022 — present Research Associate, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Hamburg (Project: Innovative Training Network "Knowing Vaccines: Policies, Practices, People”)

02. 2021 — 02. 2022 Visiting lecturer in Sociology; Academic Reading; Data analysis. Institute of Social Sciences, Liberal Arts, The Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration

10. 2018 — 10. 2019 Junior researcher, Peasant Studies Research Center,
The Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration

09. 2017 — 06. 2018 Junior researcher, Center for Arctic Social Studies, European University at St. Petersburg

09. 2013 — 09. 2014 Junior researcher, Research Laboratory of Sociology in Education and Science, Higher School of Economics

 

Research assistance experience

01. 2014 — 10. 2015 Research assistant, Academic writing course; Sociological theory course, Sociology Department, Higher School of Economics, Saint Petersburg

 

Selected conferences and seminars

07. 2024 Speaker, EASA Conference "Doing and Undoing with Anthropology"; Conference Paper: And what do you have at home? A visual analysis of home medicine collections; Spain, Barcelona 

07. 2024 Speaker, EASST and 4S Conference "Making and doing transformations"; Conference Paper: Navigating the system: lifehacks of vaccine sceptics among the Russian-speaking community in Germany; Netherlands, Amsterdam

03. 2023 Speaker, Relations and Beyond: conference of the Finnish Anthropological Society; Conference Paper: “Are you still analysing me?”: defining social interaction in the research field; Finland, Rovaniemi

06. 2022 Speaker, Nordic Ethnology and Folklore Conference; Conference Paper: (Dis)Trust, (ir)responsibility and suspicion: perceptions of the Covid vaccinations among Russian-speaking people in the Northern part of Germany; Iceland, Reykjavik

06. 2021 Speaker, SIEF 2021 – International Society for Ethnology and Folklore, 15th SIEF congress – University of Helsinki; Conference Paper: From the city to the periphery:  integration and adaptation challenges of city-people to a life in a Russian village, Finland, Helsinki

11. 2020 Speaker, 52nd Annual Convention “Anxiety and Rebellion”, The Association for Slavic, East European, & Eurasian Studies; ASEEES. Conference Paper: Methodological challenges in qualitative research among the Mountain Jews: Public vs Private, USA, Washington

05. 2020 Speaker, X Annual conference "Borders in modern culture and society", School of Cultural Studies, National Research University Higher School of Economics. Conference Paper: Adaptation to "new" borders: private and public in a village in the south of the Tambov region, Russia, Moscow

04. 2019 Speaker, research seminar, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, Paper: “Taped windows”: private / public dichotomy in a village in the south of the Tambov region, Russia, Moscow

03. 2018 Speaker, conference “Anthropology. Sociolinguistics. Folklore Studies” European University at St. Petersburg, Conference Paper: Social control and shame as a means of regulating social relations in a village in the south of the Tambov region, Russia, Saint Petersburg

12. 2017 Speaker, International conference “Prohibitions and Prescriptions in the Slavic and Jewish Cultural Traditions”. Sefer Center, Conference Paper: The space of prohibitions: the mechanisms of mutual control and the practice of avoiding conviction (the case of a settlement in the south of the Tambov region), Russia, Moscow

 

Selected research schools and field experience

09. 2020 XIII Baikal International School of Social Research, Historical memory and practical idealism. Dialogues and breaks. Independent Social Research Center, Irkutsk, etc., Russia, Irkutsk

02. 2020 Field School on Mountain Jewish Ethnography, Sefer Center for University Teaching of Jewish, Russia, Moscow

08. 2019 Field School on Jewish Ethnography and Epigraphies in Dagestan republic, Sefer Center for University Teaching of Jewish, Russia, Dagestan republic

07. 2017 — 09. 2017 Field work in a closed peasant community in Tambov region, Russia, founded by the European University at Saint Petersburg

07. 2017 Field School on Jewish Ethnography and Epigraphies in Transnistria, Sefer Center for University Teaching of Jewish, Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic

07. 2016 Field School on Jewish Ethnography and Epigraphies in Smolensk region, Sefer Center for University Teaching of Jewish, Russia, Smolensk region

07. 2013 Summer field school in Kirishi, Research Laboratory of Sociology in Education and Science, Higher School of Economics. Russia, Leningrad region

• Small closed communities

• Russian North

• Anthropology of feelings, anthropology of emotions

• Qualitative research methods

• Trust and distrust

• Microsociology