Dmitri Bondarenko | |
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Dmitri Bondarenko in Tanzania, April 2005
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Born |
Moscow, Soviet Union |
June 9, 1968
Residence | Moscow, Russia |
Nationality | Russian |
Fields | Theory of cultural evolution, political anthropology, African Studies |
Institutions | Institute for African Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences; Russian State University for the Humanities |
Alma mater | Moscow State University |
Known for | contributions to theory of cultural evolution, African Studies |
Notable awards | Grant of the Foundation for National Science Support for outstanding young D.Sc. holders (2008, 2009); European Academy prize for young CIS scholars (for the monograph Benin on the Eve of the First Contacts with Europeans: Personality. Society. Authority) (1997) |
Dmitri Mikhailovich Bondarenko (Russian: Дми́трий Миха́йлович Бондаре́нко; born 1968), is a Russian anthropologist, historian, and africanist. He has conducted field research in a number of African countries (particularly, Tanzania, Nigeria, Benin, Rwanda, Zambia) and among Black people in Russia and the United States. He is Vice-Director for Research with the Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences and Full Professor in Ethnology with the Center of Social Anthropology of the Russian State University for the Humanities. He holds the titles of Professor in Ethnology from the Lomonosov Moscow State University, Professor of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Global Problems and International Relations, and Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences in History.
Bondarenko was a visiting scholar with the Northwestern University (USA), Institut für Geschichte (Germany), and Maison des sciences de l'homme (France). He has delivered guest lectures at universities of the USA, Egypt, Tanzania, Slovenia, and Angola. Bondarenko is a member of the Executive Committee of the Africanist Network of the "European Association of Social Anthropologists", for which he also served as the Committee Chairperson in 2006–2008. Dmitri Bondarenko is a co-founder and co-editor of "Social Evolution & History".
Bondarenko graduated with the M.A. degree in 1990 from the Moscow State University, Department of Ethnography, School of History. He completed his Ph.D. in 1993 at Russian Academy of Sciences. He also holds Doctor of Sciences degree (2000) from the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Social theory, anthropological and historical theory, political anthropology, pre-industrial societies, cultures and history of Africa, socio-cultural transformations and intercultural interaction in contemporary world (including ethnic, racial, and religious aspects, migration issues) with special focus on Africa and people of African descent worldwide