Igor Kuziner
- Senior Lecturer:HSE Campus in St. Petersburg / School of Arts and Humanities / Department of History
- Junior Research Fellow:HSE Campus in St. Petersburg / School of Arts and Humanities / Centre for Historical Research
- Igor Kuziner has been at HSE University since 2023.
Education and Degrees
- 2022
Candidate of Sciences* (PhD)
HSE University - 2021
Doctoral programme
HSE University - 2018
Master's in Religious Studies
Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia, Department of Religious studies and Theology - 2011
Degree
Bonch-Bruevich St Petersburg State University of Telecommunication
According to the International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED) 2011, Candidate of Sciences belongs to ISCED level 8 - "doctoral or equivalent", together with PhD, DPhil, D.Lit, D.Sc, LL.D, Doctorate or similar. Candidate of Sciences allows its holders to reach the level of the Associate Professor.
Courses (2023/2024)
- Global History (Bachelor’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 3 year, 2 module)Eng
Global History (Master’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; field of study "46.04.01. История", field of study "46.04.01. История"; 1 year, 1 module)Eng
- Global History in the Twentieth Century (Bachelor’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 4 year, 3 module)Eng
- Historical Geography (Bachelor’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 1 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
- History in a Changing World (Bachelor’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 1 year, 2-4 module)Rus
- Research Seminar - 2 (Bachelor’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 2 year, 2-4 module)Rus
- The Arts of not Being Governed (Mago-Lego; 3 module)Eng
- Past Courses
Courses (2022/2023)
- Global History (Bachelor’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 3 year, 3, 4 module)Eng
Global History: Introduction (Master’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; field of study "46.04.01. История", field of study "46.04.01. История"; 1 year, 1 module)Eng
- Historical Geography (Bachelor’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 1 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
- History in a Changing World (Bachelor’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 1 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
- History of Imperial Russia (Bachelor’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 3 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
- Research Seminar (Bachelor’s programme; Institute of Asian and African Studies; 1 year, 1-4 module)Rus
Courses (2021/2022)
- Global History (Bachelor’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 3 year, 3, 4 module)Eng
- Historical Geography (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Management; 1 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
- Historical Geography (Bachelor’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 1 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
Historical Geography (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; field of study "46.03.01. История", field of study "46.03.01. История"; 1 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
- Historical Geography (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 2 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
- History in a Changing World (Bachelor’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 1 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
- Research Seminar (Bachelor’s programme; Institute of Asian and African Studies; 2 year, 1-3 module)Rus
Projects
The religious landscape of the city: post-secular history of religious communities of St. Petersburg (2020/2021 - ...)
The St. Petersburg History of the Moscow Estate of the Durasovs: An Institutional History of the Capital Migration (2021/2022)
An Old Believers Eschatological Text in the 20th Century (2021/2022)
Publications5
- Article Kuziner I. What Is Our People’s Guilt? Wanderers, Ritual Murder, and the Boundaries of Russianness in the Late Russian Empire // Ab imperio. 2024. No. 1. P. 63-96. doi
- Article Кузинер И. Э. Невыносимость подполья. Коллективное самоубийство староверов-странников в межвоенной Вятке // Soviet and Post Soviet Review. 2022. Т. 49. № 3. С. 304-338. doi
- Article Кузинер И. Э. Красная смерть Кабанкина: старообрядцы-странники и русское ритуальное убийство в позднеимперской России // Антропологический форум. 2021. № 49. С. 60-87. doi
- Article Кузинер И. Э. Милленаристы, капиталисты, кооператоры: позднеимперский и раннесоветский опыт старообрядцев-странников // Ab Imperio. 2021. Т. 2. С. 25-59. doi
- Article Кузинер И. Э. «Мы теперь перед собой видим две церкви». Переходы в старообрядчество Белокриницкого согласия и особенности мультиправославного религиозного ландшафта после 1905 года // Государство, религия, церковь в России и за рубежом. 2020. № No 38(2). С. 345-376. doi
Grants
Russian Scientific Foundation grant no. 24-28-01622. Project “Socialist Legality and Crimes against Women in the Interwar USSR”, 2024-2025
Russian Foundation for Basic Research grant № 19-59-22006. Project: “Marking space religiously: comparative research on a presence of Russian Orthodox Church in Russia and France”, 2019
The German historical institute in Moscow (DHI)’s scholarship for archival research, 2020
Podcast "Zakat Imperii": Old Believers - Wanderers (in Russian)
https://dronopaedia.ru/zakat/s6/e14-wanderers.html
Igor Kuziner's Article on Red Death Legend Published in "Ab Imperio"
The article "What Is Our People’s Guilt? Wanderers, Ritual Murder, and the Boundaries of Russianness in the Late Russian Empire" by Igor Kuziner, Junior Fellow Research at Centre for Historical Research, was published in May issue of "Ab Imperio".
'City Legends': Historian Igor Kuziner on His Favourite Places in St Petersburg
Meet Igor Kuziner, a native Petersburger and a Senior Lecturer of the Department of History. Having left his engineering career, he started studying Old Believers-wanderers and received a PhD degree. Together with the researcher, you will go on an excursion around an Old-believers' cemetery in St Petersburg, get into the attics at Prospekt Stachek and find the remains of a Protestant church in the village Zaozerye. Read about all these things in the article.
The Master's in 'Global and Regional History' Trains Specialists in History and Anthropology
The Master's programme 'Global and Regional History' has two educational tracks: one historical and one anthropological. The main goal of the programme is to prepare graduates to continue their academic careers. However, students will also be able to work in more applied fields: in museums, publishing companies, exhibitions, and marketing. Find out which courses await students and why the programme rejects traditional divisions into Russian and world history in this interview with Nikolai Ssorin-Chaikov, the programme's Academic Supervisor.