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Ksenia Medvedeva Медведева Ксения Сергеевна

22.08.1985

Current address: Sennstrasse 3, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria

E-mail: ksenia-medvedeva@yandex.ru; ksenia.medvedeva2208@gmail.com

Skype: kseniamedvedeva1985

Tel.: +43 677 621 45 287

Education 2013-2016 Post-graduate program at the Higher School of Economics, Department of Sociology,

Moscow. Research topic: ‘Order in a contemporary Russian Orthodox monastery: the

institutionalization of disciplinary practices’;

2010-2012 Master program at the Higher School of Economics, Department of Sociology, St

Petersburg. Master’s degree in sociology. Thesis topic: ‘Extracurricular activity in Orthodox and

Protestant parishes of St. Petersburg’;

2005-2010 Belarusian State University, Faculty of Philosophy, Minsk, Belarus. Specialist degree.

Work experience September 2016 – January 2017 Researcher in the project ‘Postsecular Conflicts’. University of

Innsbruck, Austria. Website: https://www.uibk.ac.at/projects/postsecular-conflicts/.

Desk research, data collection, document and social network analysis of the ‘traditional values’

agenda in the UN Human Rights Council, including such topics as freedom of religion, family

and life issues, and the role of the Russian Orthodox church in promoting the ‘traditionalist’

agenda;

Attending project group meetings and taking minutes.

2015 Assistant of the pro-rector for academic work. Ss Cyril and Methodius School of Post-Graduate

and Doctoral Studies, Moscow. Website: http://www.doctorantura.ru/en/.

Assistance in coordination and organization of conferences, seminars and guest lectures

Developing relationships with relevant academic and religious organisations

Keeping documents, dealing with telephone and email enquiries, attending meetings and taking

minutes.

2014-2015 Teacher assistant. St Philaret’s Christian Orthodox Institute; Higher School of Economics,

Moscow. Websites: https://sfi.ru/en and https://www.hse.ru/en/.

Teaching courses ‘Sociology of religion’ (in Russian) and ‘Individualization and Intimacy’ (in

English), master level.

2012 Research associate and project coordinator, non-profit research company Sreda, Moscow.

Website: http://sreda.org/en/.

Conducting a survey ‘Moscow parish-goers’: developing research design, administration of data

collection and actual data collection (field trips, questionnaires), data analysis (SPSS), writing

research reports, presenting the results of the survey to partners and participants. Project page:

goo.gl/8p0vQO;

Organizing the research contest for young scholars ‘Faith and Religion in Contemporary

Russia.’ Results: over 170 contest papers, over 130 participants, international jury of 10 persons,

publishing a book with the winning papers, presenting the results at the press-conference for

stakeholders. Contest page: http://sreda.org/en/science;

Writing analytical reviews and reports on academic events in the field of Religious Studies;

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Developing partner network, building effective relationships with academic organisations,

church institutions, and mass media; developing effective communication with scholars of

religion;

Taking a series of interviews with famous Russian and foreign scholars of religion

Developing and disseminating publicity materials; updating website content.

2010-2012 Trainee. Centre for the study of religion and secularization (http://iris.hse.ru/) and

Education and Science Sociology Laboratory (http://slon.hse.ru/), Higher School of Economics, St.

Petersburg.

Conducting a case study on ‘New forms of religious life among bikers’: developing research

design, data collection (interviews, field trips), data analysis, writing an article.

Conducting surveys: desk research (monitoring media), administration of data collection and

actual data collection (desk research, field trips, interviews, questionnaires), data analysis (SPSS,

Nvivo), writing research reports.

Conference papers Year, conference, location Paper presented

2016 Annual conference of the European

Association for the Study of Religions ‘Relocating

religion’ (Helsinki, Finland)

Co-chair of the session ‘Christianity in diaspora:

ethnographic case studies of religious practice

and identity construction’ (with Iliyana

Angelova, University of Oxford)

Paper ‘A Russian Orthodox parish in Toronto: an

ethnographic case study’

2015 Conference ‘Sociology of Orthodoxy: from

the study of religious communities to the study of

mass religiosity’, St Tikhon’s Orthodox University

(Moscow, Russia)

Общественное мнение о монастырях и

монашествующих (по результатам

всероссийских репрезентативных опросов)

[Public opinion on monasteries and monasticism

(based on the results of Russian representative

opinion polls)]

2015 the 12th Conference of the European

Sociological Association (Prague, Czech Republic)

The social representation of Christian Orthodox

monasticism in contemporary Russia

2015 British Sociological Association Sociology of

Religion Study Group Annual Conference. 40th

Anniversary of the Study Group (Hoddesdon, UK)

‘Institutional Display’ of a Russian Orthodox

Christian Monastery

2015 International Conference ‘Christian

Monasticism from East to West. Monastic

Traditions and Modernity in Europe’ (Graz, Austria)

Techniques of the Self in a Russian Orthodox

Christian Convent

2015 Divine Maps, Sacred Stories: Cartography and

History in Religious Imaginations. University of

Toronto (Canada)

Trapped by Prophecies: The Case of Diveyevo

Monastery in Russia

2015 International visiting graduate students

colloquium. Department for the Study of Religion,

University of Toronto (Canada)

The dynamics of religious engagement: Push and

pull factors in Russian Christian Orthodox

monasteries

2014 VIII Scientific Levada Conference ‘Modern

Russian society and sociology,’ Higher School of

Economics (Moscow)

Монастырь как тотальный институт: мнение

классиков и современников [Monastery as a

total institution: classical and contemporary

approaches]

2014 XV April International Conference on

Economic and Social Development, Higher School

of Economics (Moscow)

Трудовая дисциплина в православном

сестричестве [Labor discipline in the Orthodox

Sisterhood]

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Publications Labour discipline in a Christian Orthodox sisterhood in Russia. Culture and Religion, 2016, vol. 17,

issue 1, pp. 92-108. URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14755610.2016.1165269.

DOI:10.1080/14755610.2016.1165269

[Review] Jonveaux, I. et al. (eds) (2014) Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion. Vol. 5:

Sociology and Monasticism: Between Innovation and Tradition. Leiden, Boston: Brill. — 322

p. State, Religion and Church in Russia and Worldwide, 2016, vol. 1, no 34, pp. 404-410. URL:

goo.gl/zr9QmH.

Полевая работа в монастыре: особенности включенного наблюдения [Fieldwork in a monastery:

specifics of participant observation]. The Journal of Sociology and Social Anthropology, 2016, vol.

XIX, no 1 (84), pp. 59-72. URL: https://publications.hse.ru/en/articles/182211848.

Векторы социологии религии в Европейской социологической ассоциации [Vectors of the

sociology of religion in the European Sociological Association]. Russian Sociological Review,

2016, vol. 15, no 1, pp. 134-140. DOI: 10.17323/1728-192X-2016-1-134-140. URL: goo.gl/JzsE2b.

Трудовое пространство городского православного сестричества. [Labour space of the urban

Christian Orthodox sisterhood] In: Anthropology of space: conference collection. Сост.: Д.С.

Николаев, Н.Н. Рычкова. М.: РГГУ, 2016. 70 c. С. 26-27.

The landscape of a religious workspace: the case of a Russian Christian Orthodox sisterhood. Russian

Sociological Review, 2015, vol. 14, no 2, pp. 70-81. URL: goo.gl/ZjOMEI.

Социальный образ православных монастырей и монашества в современной России [The Social

Representation of Christian Orthodox Monasticism in Contemporary Russia]. The Sociological

Journal, 2015, vol. 21, no 3, pp. 45–62. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.19181/socjour.2015.21.3.2377.

URL: goo.gl/jKN5i0.

Что социология может сказать о монашестве? [What sociology can say about monasticism?].

Russian Sociological Review, 2015, vol. 14, no 3, pp. 153–160. URL: goo.gl/S9wtu6.

О социологии религии в Великобритании [On the Sociology of Religion in Great Britain]. The

Monitoring of Public Opinion: Economic and Social Changes Journal, 2015, no 5, pp. 178-183.

URL: http://goo.gl/btSNJS.

Введение. История и ход конкурса [Introduction. The history and run of the contest]. In: Faith and

Religion in contemporary Russia. National Contest Among Young Scholars. М.: Август Борг,

2014. С. 8-17. URL: https://goo.gl/dveCS4.

Новые формы религиозной жизни в среде байкеров [New forms of religious life among bikers]. In:

XIII April International Academic Conference on Economic and Social Development. Ред.: Е. Г.

Ясин. Кн. 2. М.: Издательский дом НИУ ВШЭ, 2012. С. 551-560. URL: https://goo.gl/eCnWZg.

Forthcoming in 2017:

The Dynamics of Religious Engagement: Push and pull factors in Russian Christian Orthodox

Monasteries. In: Religion as Resource: Local and Global Discourses. Eds. Vibha Joshi and Andrea-

Luithle Hardenberg with afterword by Prof Simon Coleman. University of Tubingen Publishing

House.

Nun with a camera: insider view (Eastern Orthodox Tolga monastery). In: Zooming on monasteries.

Visual Approach towards Monasticism. Eds. Marcin Jewdokimow, br. Thomas Quartier. Cardinal

Stefan Wyszyński Univeristy Publishing House.

Research Interests Sociology of religion; Anthropology of religion; Religious studies; Monasticism; Pilgrimage;

Orthodox Christianity; Nationalism, multiculture and religion.

Languages Russian – native; German and Serbian – beginner;

English – advanced, Academic IELTS: band 8, 2013; band 8, 2015.

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Internships & Summer Schools 2016 International summer school ‘Triennal of Religion’ at Salzburger Hochschulwoche, Department

for Systematic Theology, University of Salzburg, Austria. Paper presented: ‘Relocated religion:

Russian Orthodoxy in Toronto’;

2015 International visiting graduate research student at the University of Toronto, Department for the

Study of Religion, Canada. Duration: one semester. Host supervisor: Prof. Simon Coleman;

2014 Summer school ‘Phenomenology of the everyday,’ Telemark University College, Bø, Norway;

2014 Workshop ‘Religion as Resource: Local and Global Discourses’, Tuebingen University,

Germany. Paper presented: ‘Russian Orthodox monasteries in a religion-as-resource perspective’.

Professional Associations & Academic networks Member of European Sociological Association, RN34 Sociology of Religion (since 2014);

Member of British Sociological Association, Sociology of Religion Study Group (2015);

Member of the international scholarly Association for the Sociology of Religion (2014);

Academia.edu: https://hse-ru.academia.edu/KseniaMedvedeva;

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kseniamedvedeva;

ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ksenia_Medvedeva;

ResearcherID: H19172016 (http://www.researcherid.com/rid/H-1917-2016);

Scopus AuthorID: 57188651156 (goo.gl/MBYA8w);

Google Scholar: goo.gl/wVMpX0;

For my Powerpoint presentations, please see: goo.gl/NAakKw.

Fieldwork since 2011: Russian Orthodox monasteries in the regions of Leningrad, Yaroslavl, Nizhny Novgorod,

Kaluga, Ivanovo and Moscow in Russia;

2015 Orthodox monastery in Essex, UK; Christian parishes in Toronto, Canada;

2011-2012 Orthodox and Protestant parishes in St. Petersburg and Moscow region.

Personal Info Experience in qualitative research, fieldwork, teaching, and academic administration;

Good report writing, project management, and presentation skills;

Creative, flexible, mobile, feel fine both with working in team and on my own;

To give you a flavor of my personality, will mention my non-academic interests, among them: folk

music and dancing, singing in a choir, crafts and needlework, books for children, travelling and

hiking.