Victor Vakhshtayn

Academic Qualifications	03.2007 State University - Higher School of Economics Awarded Ph.D. in Sociology   09.2002 – 08.2003 Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences (Russian-British Postgraduate University) Awarded degree Master of Arts in Sociology (University of Manchester), with Distinction   09.1997 – 06. 2002 Penza State Pedagogical University Awarded degree Specialist in Psychology (major in Social Psychology), with Distinction
Special Trainings	1999 – 2001 Moscow School of Political Research (in association with the Centre for Studies in Modern Politics) Major in Regional Political Processes
Awards	2006 “Best Analytical Report on Education” award Ministry of Education and Science RF
Membership	2009 European Sociological Association “Sociology of Culture” Research Network
Institution, Job Title	08.2008 – 08.2011 Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences (Russian-British Postgraduate University) Dean of sociology and political science department   09.2004 – present time Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences (Russian-British Postgraduate University) Lecturer in “Methods of sociological research”, “Sociology of everyday live”, “Frame analysis: theory and method”   01.2007 – present time Centre for Fundamental Sociology, State University – Higher School of Economics Senior research fellow   01.2005 – 01.2007 Centre of Human Resources Monitoring, Academy of National Economy Senior research fellow   10.2002 – 12.2005 Russian Democratic Party “Yabloko” Analytical centre, Head of media analysis department
Research Projects	01.2009 – 01.2011 Educational and professional trajectories of school graduates. Higher School of Economics Sociologist-consulter, senior researcher   11.2009 – 11.2010 Changing role of universities: missions and functions Higher School of Economics Sociologist-consulter, senior researcher   06.2005 – 06.2009 Electoral behavior in microsociological perspective: frame analysis of voting (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia) Individual project   01.2007 – 01.2009 Frame-analysis of TV-watching: mechanics of everyday practice and TV-experience Media Agency “Leo Burnett Group” (Russian branch) Head of the project   01.2007 – 01.2009 Heterotopology of Moscow: frames, flows and sites of marginalization “Territory of the Future” Foundation Sociologist-consulter, researcher   09.2005 – 11.2006 Economic Value of Meteorological Information Research (in Azerbaijan and Serbia) World Bank Sociologist-consulter, researcher   09.2005 – 09.2006 Monitoring of “Lifelong Learning” Regional Development (5 RF regions) Academy of National Economy Sociologist-consulter, researcher   09.2004 – 12.2005 Monitoring of Demand for On-line Education Services in FSU-countries (14 Republics of Former Soviet Union) Ministry of Education and Science RF Sociologist-consulter, researcher   09.2003 – 12.2005 Monitoring of Equity and Quality in General Education (Federal Research) Ministry of Education and Science RF Sociologist-consulter, researcher   10.2002 – 12.2003 Work in Analytical Centre of Russian Democratic Party “Yabloko” Coordinator of Regional Network, Media analyst   23 other research and evaluation projects.
Academic activity	Over 30 academic publications: reviews, translations and articles in 7 sociological journals, 4 collective monographs.   ·         Vakhshtayn V. (2010) Rethinking Utopia in Roma III University Journal. Rome. ·         Vakhshtayn V. (2009) Re-framing of voting: keying, sense-making and transformation of electoral experience in the Balkans. Lisbon. ·         Vakhshtayn V. (2009) Beyond post-Soviet sociology: paradoxes and tautologies in Ways of Russia. Moscow [In Russian]. ·         Vakhshtayn V. (2008) ‘Frame’ vs. ‘Practice’: alternative approaches in sociology of everyday life in Sociological Review. V. 3. [In Russian]. ·         Vakhshtayn V. (2007) Event-structures of Lebenswelt. Analysis of the mundane gesture in Sociological Journal. V. 4. [In Russian]. ·         Vakhshtayn V. (2006) Toward an analytics of everyday event in Ways of Russia. Moscow [In Russian]. ·         Vakhshtayn V. (ed.) Sociology of things. Moscow (2006). [In Russian]. ·         Vakhshtayn V. (2004) On reality of the “social reality” (Review of: E. Goffman Frame-Analysis. Russian translation) in Sociological Journal.  V. 3-4. [In Russian]. ·         Vakhshtayn V. (2004) The return of the material: “spaces”, “networks” and “fluids” in the Actor-Network Theory in Sociological Review. 2004. V. 11. [In Russian]. ·         Vakhshtayn V. (2003) Resident-ness as the factor of social stratification in Economic Sociology. 2003. V. 3. [In Russian].
Languages	English (fluent), Hebrew (upper elementary)