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Title
Name & email
Country Regional specialization Thematic specialization Institutional affiliation Profile of institution

Research fellow, Dr.Soc.Sc.
Laura Assmuth

Finland Estonia, Latvia, NW Russia State borders, border areas; ethnic and national identities; state-building; gender; life-course; agency. Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies,
P.O. Box 4,
00014 University of Helsinki,
Finland.
Independent post-doctoral multidisciplinary research institute within the University of Helsinki. Comprises social & human sciences. Presently 35 scholars.

Cand. polit. in Social Anthropology
Torstein Bach

Norway Estonia Folklore, nationalism, globalization, tradition, modernity, processes of change, cosmology, power. ORKLA Industrial Museum,
Torfinn Bjørnaas plass 2,
7332 Løkken Verk,
Norway.
 

Assoc. Prof., PhD
Martin Boiko

Personal homepage: www.ltn.lv/~m-boiko/

 

Latvia

 

The Baltic States

Areas: Ethnomusicology,anthropology of music, acoustic ecology.
Research interests: Traditional music of the Baltic countries, acoustic biocommunication, music & death, identity & music, silence.

University of Latvia,
Faculty of Education and Psychology,
Jurmalas gatve 74/76,
Riga,
LV - 1083,
Latvia

 
PhD Candidate
Dace Dzenovska


MA in Humanities and Social Thought, New York University
BA in anthropology, Upsala College
USA Latvia, Georgia Development, European integration, race, post-socialism. University of California in Berkeley
232 Kroeber Hall,
Dept. of Anthropology,
UC Berkeley,
Berkeley,
CA 94702

 

Assistant Professor, PhD
Jeffers Engelhardt

Personal homepage:
www.amherst.edu/~jengelhardt

USA Estonia, Baltic Sea region Ethnomusicology, Orthodox Christianity, religious renewal, postsocialism, festivals, cultural rights Amherst College,
Department of Music,
Amherst, MA 01002,USA

Assistant Professor of International Migration, PhD sociocultural anthropology
Greg Feldman

Website: www.geog.ubc.ca/~gfeldman/

Canada Estonia, Baltic Sea Region, Eastern Europe Minorities and the nation-state; culture, economy, and security; EU and immigration; public policy and policy elites Department of Geography, University of British Columbia,
1984 West Mall, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z2, CANADA
 

Lecturer, PhD
Toomas Gross

Finland Mexico, Latin America, Eastern Europe Anthropology of religion, new religious movements, politics and violence, social change.

Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology,
P.O. Box 59,
00014 University of Helsinki,
Finland.


PhD Candidate
Joachim Otto Habeck


Interested in cooperation with anthropologists who work on or in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
Germany
Siberia, North Russia
Tradition, analysis of evolutionary approaches, gender & age among indigenous and non-indigenous communities in the Russian North.

Siberian Studies Centre (coordinator)
Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
Postbox 11 03 51,
D-06017 Halle/S,
Germany

Research institute
Researcher, PhD
Anu Kannike
Estonia Estonia Material culture, consumption, home. Institute of International and Social Studies
Estonia pst. 7,
Tallinn,
Estonia
Social studies

PhD Candidate, MA
Neringa Klumbyte

USA Eastern Europe, Lithuania Political anthropology. Political communication in electoral politics. University of Pittsburgh,
3H01 Posvar Hall,
Pittsburgh, PA 15260,
USA
 

PhD Candidate, lecturer
Ene Kõresaar

PhD dissertation: "Ideologists of Life. Collective Memory and Autobiographical Meaning-Making of the Past in Estonian Life Stories" (forthcoming)

Estonia Estonia Narrative memory in East/Central Europe, biographical perspectives on Estonian history, everyday life in Soviet Estonia. Dept. of Ethnology, University of Tartu
Ülikooli 18,
50090 Tartu,
Estonia.
European Ethnology and cultural anthropology; biographical research and ethnology of everyday life in Estonia; Arctic studies.

Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Agita Luse

Interested in promoting anthropological education in Latvia. Chair-person of the Latvian Association of Anthropologists from 1999-2004.

Latvia
Latvia
Anthropology of health & illness, mental health in post-Soviet Latvia, the self-help movement, religion, charismatic Christianity in post-socialist countries.

Department of Sociology, University of Bristol,
12 Woodland Rd.,
Bristol,
BS8 1UQ,
U.K.

Latvian Association of Anthropologists
FSI,
Akademijas laukums 1,
Riga, LV-1940,
Latvia.

The Latvian Association of Anthropologists is a NGO established November 25, 1999. The association participates in research and educational programs in the field of Social and Cultural Anthropology.
PhD Candidate
Diana Mincyte
USA Lithuania Material culture, science & technology

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign,
Department of Sociology,
326 Lincoln Hall,
702 S.Wright St. Urbana,
IL-61820,
USA

Associate Professor Mag.art.
Finn Sivert Nielsen

Editor of AnthroBase

Coordinates: the networks NECEN and ECEG

Personal homepage: www.fsnielsen.com

Denmark Russia, USA, (Europe) General interest in the Baltic states Modernity & postmodernity; urban, economic, symbolic & historical anthropology; identity, multiculturalism, power, the body, technology; history of anthropology, methods, general social theory. Institute of anthropology University of Copenhagen,
Frederiksholms kanal 4,
DK-1220 København K, Denmark
University institute of anthropology.

Cand. Polit. in Social Anthropology
Kari Helene Partapuoli

Editor of AnthroBase

Personal homepage: www.partapuoli.com

Denmark Estonia Business, marketing, globalization, cross-cultural communication, design.

 

 

Dr. phil.
Ingo W. Schröder

Germany Eastern Europe (Lithuania), North America Religion, postsocialism, ethnicity & identity politics, neopaganism, history, law, public representations & media, globalization & transnationalism.

Institut für Vergleichende Kulturforschung - Völkerkunde (Dept. of Anthropology),
Philipps-Universität,
35032 Marburg,
Germany

University department

MPhil in Social Anthropology, Cambridge
Klavs Sedlenieks

BA Sociology
Vytautas Magnus University,
Kaunas,
Lithuania

Latvia Latvia, Montenegro Corruption, anthropology of organisations, political anthropology. Lecturer
University of Latvia,
Faculty of Social Sciences,
Lomonosova 1,
Riga,
Latvia



PhD Candidate
Kristina Sliavaite

MA in social anthropology (Lund University), MA in history (Vilnius University)

Lithuania Lithuania

Ethnic & racial intolerance, migratory processes in East Central Europe in Soviet and post-Soviet periods, political anthropology, theories of risk in social sciences, anthropology of crisis.

Conducting research in multi-ethnic Ignalina nuclear power plant community in North East of Lithuania.

Dept. of Social Anthropology, Lund University,
Box 117,
221 00 Lund,
Sweden

Institute for Social Research,
Section of Ethnic Studies,
Saltoniskiu 58, Vilnius, Lithuania

Institute for Social Research carries out different research projects and applied research.