Dmitri Bondarenko
Dmitri Mikhailovich Bondarenko (Russian: Дми́трий Миха́йлович Бондаре́нко, IPA: [ˈdmʲitrʲɪj mʲɪˈxajləvʲɪdʑ bəndɐˈrʲenkə] ⓘ; born June 9, 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, Uganda) and among Black people in Russia and the United States. He is Principal Research Fellow and Vice-Director for Research with the Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Director of the International Center of Anthropology of the HSE University, 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.
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Dmitri Bondarenko in Tanzania, April 2005 | |
| Born | June 9, 1968 Moscow, Soviet Union |
| Nationality | Russian |
| Alma mater | Moscow State University |
| Known for | contributions to anthropology and African Studies |
| Awards | Main academic awards: Anniversary medal "300 years of the Russian Academy of Sciences" (2024) ; Russian Academy of Sciences Nikolay Miklukho Maklay prize “for outstanding contribution to Ethnology and Anthropology” (for the monograph Post-colonial Nations in Historical and Cultural Context) (2023); 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); State awards and titles: Medal of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" 2nd class (2024); Labor Veteran (2015); Medal "In Commemoration of the 850th Anniversary of Moscow" (1997) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | cultural anthropology, political anthropology, African Studies, world history |
| Institutions | Institute for African Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences; National Research University Higher School of Economics; Russian State University for the Humanities |
Bondarenko was a visiting scholar with the Northwestern University (United States), Institut für Geschichte (Germany), and Maison des sciences de l'homme (France). He has delivered guest lectures at universities of Russia, the United States, Egypt, Tanzania, Slovenia, Angola, and Uganda. 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".