CURRICULUM VITAE NAME: KRADIN, Nikolay Nikolaevich DATE AND PLACE OF BIRTH: 17 April 1962, Onokhoy, Republic of Buryatia, Russian Federation ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS: • Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, December 22, 2011 • professor (the Russian equivalent of the Professor of Social Anthropology), February 20, 2001, The Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation. • doktor istoricheskih nauk (Dr. Hist. Sc. - the Russian equivalent of the Dr. Habil.), June 25, 1999, Oriental Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Sankt-Petersburg. • dozent (the Russian equivalent of the Associate Professor of Political Sciences), Mai 25, 2000, The Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation. • kandidat istoricheskih nauk (Cand. Hist. Sc. - the Russian equivalent of Ph.D.), October 18, 1990, Institute of History, archaeology and ethnography of the Far-Eastern Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok. • diplom (the Russian equivalent of MA), June 7, 1985, Department of archaeology and ethnography of the Faculty of the History, Irkutsk State University. CURRENT POSITION, MAILING ADDRESS, E-MAIL, FAX, TELEPHONE: Acting Director Institute of History, Archaeology and Ethnology, Far-Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 89 Pushkinskaya street, Vladivostok, 690001, RUSSIA Tel.: +7 (423) 222-05-07 Fax: +7 (423) 222-05-07 E-mail: [email protected] PREVIOUS EMPLOYMENT: Institute of History, archaeology and ethnology, Far-Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok - Junior Research Fellow, September 1985 – October 1988 Aspirant (the Russian equivalent of post graduate student), October 1988 - October 1990 Research Fellow, October 1990 - March 1992 Chief of Department of Archaeology, April 1992 - April 1994 Senior Research Fellow, April 1994 - April 2000 Major Research Fellow, April 2000 – July 2004 Head Research Fellow, July 2004 - July 2008 Chief of Center of Political anthropology, July 2008 – December 2017 Acting director of Institute of History, Archaeology and Ethnology of the Far-Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, December 2017 - the present 1 + Lecturer. Visiting Professor of the Department of World History of the Ussuriysk State Teacher Institute, October 1994 – August 1996 + Lecturer. Dozent (1996-1997) and Professor (1997-2002) of the Department of Political Sciences, Institute of Political Sciences and Law of the Far-Eastern National Technical University, October 1996 – June 2002 + Lecturer. Chief and Professor of the Department of Social Anthropology, Faculty of Cultural Anthropology of the Far-Eastern National Technical University, September 1999 – August 2011 + Lecturer. Professor of the Department of World History, Institute of History, Philosophy, and Cultural Studies of the Far-Eastern National University, September 2000 – August 2011 + Lecturer. Guest Professor of the Mongolian State University and Institute of the Study of the Nomadic Civilizations of UNESCO in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, April 2004. + Chief of Laboratory of archaeology and anthropology of the Far-Eastern National Technical University, March 2005 – August 2011. + Lecturer. Guest Professor of Pardubice University, Czech Republic, November - December 2008. + Lecturer. Head and Professor of the Department of World History, Archaeology, and Anthropology, Far- Eastern Federal University, Vladivostok, September 2011 – June 2016. + Lecturer. Visiting Professor, École pratique des hautes études, (EPHE), Sorbonne, France, Paris, March – April 2016. + Lecturer. Visiting Professor, University of Inner Mongolia, Hohhot 呼和浩特, China, October 2016 – the present RESEARCH INTERESTS: • Nomads of Eurasia • Political Anthropology • Social Archaeology • World-Systems Analysis MAIN FIELD WORK:. Archaeology: South Siberia (1981), Amur river region (1982-1984, 1986-1988, 1994), Maritime region of the Russian Far-East (1989, 1991, 1994-1996, 1998-2000, 2004-2006, 2008-2010), Mongolia (2004-2013, 2015-2018), Trans-Baikal region (2008-2017), Inner Mongolia (2013), Buryatia (2017-2018). Anthropology and Ethnology: South Siberia (1982), Amur River region (1997-1998, 2010), Buryatia (2000-2007), Udighe peoples in Northern Primorye region (1999), Tuva (2002, 2008), Mongolia (2001-2002), North-Eastern China (2011). TEACHING EXPERIENCE: 1994 - 1996: Ussuriysk, Department of World History of the Ussuriysk State Teacher Institute (Course taught: Archaeology, Origins of the state). 1996 – 1999: Vladivostok, Institute of Political Sciences and Law of the Far-Eastern State Technical University (Course taught: History of political and legal thought, Political anthropology). 1999 - 2011: Vladivostok, Department of Social Anthropology, Faculty of Cultural Anthropology of the Far- Eastern National Technical University (Courses taught: Introduction to social anthropology; Social anthropology, History anthropological thought; Political anthropology, Legal anthropology, Economic anthropology, Anthropology of nomadism, Anthropology of archaic societies, Social history of ancient and traditional Orient, Theory of Ethnicity and Nationalism, Urban anthropology) 2000 – 2011: Vladivostok, Department of World History, Institute of History, Philosophy, and Cultural Studies, Far-Eastern National University (Courses taught: History of the Ancient World, History of the 2 Orient in the Middle Age and pre-modern time, Theory and Methodology of the History, World- System approach, Historical anthropology) 2004 - Mongolia, Visiting professor, University of Nomadic Civilizations at the International Institute of Nomadic Civilizations UNESKO, Ulaanbaatar (Course taught: History of Nomadic Civilizations) 2008 - Czech Republic, Visiting Professor, University of Pardubice (Course taught: Political Anthropology) 2011 – 2016: Vladivostok, Department of World History, Archaeology, and Anthropology, School of Humanities, Far-Eastern Federal University (Courses taught: Social anthropology, Theory and Methodology of the History, Archaeology of State Origins, Archaeology of Nomadic Empire; Prehistory). 2016 – 2016: France, Paris, Visiting Professor, École pratique des hautes études, (EPHE) (Course taught: Nomadic Imperialism in Inner Asia, Processes of Steppe Urbanization, and Global Eurasian Interaction) 2016 – present: China, Hohhot, Visiting Professor, Inner Mongolian University, Department of Ethnology and Sociology (Course taught: Nomads of Inner Asia) RESEARCH GRANTS (from 1993 – present: 73 grants) including: 1993-1995: Russian Foundation for the Humanities Research Grant 93-06-10313 "Nomadic Empires: origin, development, decline" 1994-1995: Soros Foundation Moscow Branch Research Grant # Z 16000/542 "The Hsiung-nu Empire" 1997-1998: Moscow Social Scientific Foundation with Ford Foundation Grant # 263 "Modernization and traditional peasant pastoral society of Buryatia" 1997-1999: Russian Foundation for the Humanities Research Grant #97-01-00533 "The modern theories of the origins of the state" 1997-1999: Russian Foundation for the Humanities Research Grant #, № 97-06-96759 'The Asia of Baykal region in the Hsiung-nu period: ecology, settlement pattern, social structure" 1997-1999: The Ministry of Education of Japan Grant "Settlement systems of the traditional peoples of Amur river basin" 1997-2000: The Federal Program center 'Integratsiia' of Russia Federation, Grant # 752 "Man and Nature in Northern Primorye region; from prehistory to modernity" 1998-1999: The Federal Program center 'Integratsiia' of Russia Federation, Grant # 983-06 "Alternative ways to civilization" 1998-1999: Moscow Social Scientific Foundation with Ford Foundation, Grant # 224 "Traditional power in post-Soviet political culture" 1999: Russian Foundation of Basic Research, Grant # 99-06-99512 "The Economy of the Nomadic Empire" 1999-2000: The Federal Program center 'Integratsiia' of Russia Federation, Grant # М422-06 "Political anthropology. Text edition for students". 1999-2001: RSS/OSSF (Open society) Grant # 1266/1999 "Pastoral nomadism in Buryatia: tradition amd modernisation". 2000-2002: Russian Foundation of Basic Research, Grant # 00-06-80395 "Ecological adaptation of the prehistoric and traditional hunter-gathering cultures in the Primorye region of Russia". 2001-present: CNRS, France, "The Societies of the nomads and the State: contemporary analysis of the transitional processes among the Buryats and Kirghiz". 2002-2004: Russian Foundation for the Humanities Research Grant #02-01-0017, "The Empire Liao (907- 1125) and the nations of the Far East of Russia". 2002-2004: Russian Foundation of Basic Research, Grant # 02-06-80359 "Transformation of the pastoralism among the Aginsky Buryats in the post-Soviet period: tradition and modernity". 2002-2004: Russian Foundation of Basic Research, Grant # 02-06-80379 "The Mongols Empire of Chinggis Khan". 2004-2005: INO-Center of Russia with sponsorship of Carnegie and Macarthur foundations, "Ethnic and social structures of nomads of Siberia and Far East in historical retrospective" 2006-2006: Russian Foundation of Basic Research, Grant # 06-06-80234a "Transformation of pastoral peasants of the Siberian peoples in post-Soviet Period: cross-cultural study". 3 2007-2009: Russian Foundation for the Humanities and Mongolian Ministry of Education and Science Grant #№ 07-01-92002а/G "Nomadic Empires of Mongolian Steppes: from Xiongnu to Chinggis Khan Power ". 2010-2012: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, grant-in-Aid Scientific Research, 2010-2012, "Cultural Adaptation to the Natural and Social Environment in the Forest