VITA & PROFILE
           
             
 

AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION:
History of Early China (Western Zhou, Spring and Autumn, and Zhanguo periods);
Western Zhou bronze inscriptions.


    
 
ACADEMIC CAREER  
2003-present Visiting lecturer, Institute of Sinology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich (LMU).
Since 29.01.2010 Started habilitation project "Kinship, Marriage and Politics in Early China (11-8 cc. BC" at the LMU.
01.10.2007-30.09.2009 Post doctoral fellow in the German Science Foundation’s Postgraduate School “Forms of Prestige in Cultures of the Ancient World” at the LMU.
01.02.-31.07.2007 Post-doctoral fellow in the High School and Science Program (HWP) for the chances equality for women in science at the LMU
2003 - 2006 Research fellow of Gerda-Henkel-Foundation at the LMU and Ruhr-University Bochum (RUB).
01.10.2005 - 28.02.2006 Assistant Professor (Wissenschaftliche Assistentin), Institute of Sinology of the LMU (temporary substitution).
2001 – 2003 Guest research fellow of Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at the Faculty of East Asian Studies of the RUB, visiting lecturer.
1999 – 2006 Research fellow, China Department, Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow.
1999 – 2004 Research fellow, Institute of General History of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Project “East-West”.
1997 - 2002

Project member, Center “History of Private and Everyday Life”, Institute of General History of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

     
 
EDUCATION      
1996 - 1999 Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
  Ph. D. in history.
  Dissertation: Institutions of “friends” and “guests” in Ancient China. Evolution of the social and politic phenomena and of the appropriate terminology during the Western Zhou, Chunqiu and Zhanguo periods.
  Advisor: Prof. Stanislav Kuczera
1990 - 1996 History Faculty of the Moscow State Lomonosov-University. Specialization: History of Ancient China at the Ancient World History Department.
  Moscow State University Diploma in history (equivalent to MA).
  Thesis: “Sacral and Political Role of Jade in Ancient China”.
1994 - 1995 College of International Cultures, Dalian Normal University, People Republic of China. Russian-Chinese interstate university exchange program. Modern Chinese language training.


 
 
 
     

MEMBERSHIP IN ACADEMIC ORGANISATIONS
European Association of Chinese Studies (Member of the Board)
Deutsche Vereinigung für Chinastudien (Member of the Board)
Early China Society
European Association for the Study of Chinese Manuscripts

 
  Organisation of Panels at Conferences:
 
  • „The Zhou period in the light of new archaeological and epigraphic sources“ XVIII Conference of the European Association of Chinese Studies, Riga, July 15, 2010;
  • Topoi of First and Last Rulers, XVIIth Conference of the European Association of Chinese Studies, Lund, August 6, 2008;
  • Ankunftsland China: Identität und Integration der Einwanderer in der historischen Perspektive, XXX. Orientalistentag, Freiburg, September 26, 2007
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