Sergei Shtyrkov joined EPHE – GSRL as a program PAUSE laureate in 2022. He completed his PhD in social anthropology at European University at St. Petersburg (Russia) and defended it in 2002 in the Russian State University of Humanities (Moscow). Since 1999 he taught at the European University at St. Petersburg introductory and advanced courses in social anthropology, anthropology of religion, ethnicity and nationalism studies and field methods in social sciences. He also had a position of a senior researcher at the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Russian Academy of Sciences) from 2003 to 2022.

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