HSE Staff Members Awarded Status of Tenured Professor

On June 22, several HSE lecturers and staff members were awarded the status of Tenured Professor at a meeting of HSE Academic Council. Sixteen HSE staff members became Distinguished Professors at the Higher School of Economics for the first time.

Tenured Professors

The HSE Board of HSE Tenured Professors was established in 2003. So far, this position remains unique to Russian universities and is conferred only at HSE, although a similar honorary title has been granted for many years by Anglo-Saxon universities.

For more information about the history of the Board, readers can refer to an interview with Lev Lubimov, HSE Deputy Academic Supervisor. The interview was given as part of the project ‘A Year in History’, timed to coincide with HSE’s 25th anniversary.

The honorary status of Tenured Professor is awarded to teachers in the position of professor, who have made special contributions to the university. The Board of Tenured Professors is an independent and self-governing body which deals with the strategic, personnel, moral and ethical legal issues of the university.

At the most recent meeting of the Academic Council, HSE Rector, Yaroslav Kuzminov, noted that the number of the Board members and their research fields, as well as the process itself, is similar to the election process at the Russian Academy of Sciences. On the eve of the meeting of the Board of Tenured Professors, each section put forward several candidates, who were then included in the final list.

The following HSE staff members were awarded the status of Tenured Professor:

Daniil Alexandrov, Professor at St. Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Humanities (Department of Sociology), Head of the Laboratory of Sociology in Education and Science
Valery Afanasiev, Professor at the School of Applied Mathematics
Irina Bogdanovskaya, Professor at the Faculty of Law, Head of the International Laboratory for Information Technology and Intellectual Property Law
Gennadiy Brodetskiy, Professor at the School of Logistics
Valery Gordin, Professor at St.Petersburg School of Economics and Management
Alexey Gorodentsev, Professor at the Faculty of Mathematics
Vyacheslav Grines, Academic Supervisor of the Laboratory for Topological Methods in Dynamics
Mikhail Denisenko, Associate Professor at the Department of Demography
Alexander Kamenskii, Professor at the School of History
Grigory Kantorovich, Professor at the Department of Applied Economics
Mikhail Karasev, Professor at the School of Applied Mathematics
Elena Kardanova, Director of the Center of Education Quality Monitoring
Alexander Karminsky, Professor at the School of Finance
Anatoly Kasprzhak, Academic Supervisor of the Center of Leadership Development in Education
Valery Ledyaev, Professor at the Analysis of Social Institutions Department
Dmitry Leontiev, Professor at the School of Psychology
Irina Lomazova, Professor at the School of Software Engineering
Anatoly Peresetsky, Professor at the Department of Applied Economics
Vadim Podbelskiy, Professor at the School of Software Engineering
Ekaterina Rakhilina, Professor at the School of Linguistics
Alexey Rutkevich, Professor at the School of Philosophy

Distinguished Professors

On June 22, several HSE staff members were also awarded the status of Distinguished Professor for the first time in HSE history. According to regulations, the honorary status of Distinguished Professor at the Higher School of Economics is conferred upon outstanding researchers and lecturers who have made special academic contributions to HSE, who play an active role in the university’s development and who work to strengthen its reputation.

The following HSE staff members were granted the status of Distinguished Professor:

Daniil Alexandrov, Professor at St. Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Humanities (Department of Sociology)
Nikolay I. Berzon, Academic Supervisor of the Department of Financial Market Infrastructure
Vasily Vlassov, Professor at the Department of Health Care Administration and Economy
Valery Gordin, Professor at St.Petersburg School of Economics and Management
Valery Kalyagin, Head of the Department of Applied Mathematics and Informatics (HSE Nizhny Novgorod)
Grigory Kantorovich, Professor at the Department of Applied Economics
Sergei Lando, Professor at the Faculty of Mathematics
Viktor Maslov, Professor at the School of Applied Mathematics
Tamara Morshchakova, Head of the Department of Judicial Power
Yuriy Orlovskiy, Academic Supervisor of the Higher School of Law
Nikolay Petrukhin, Academic Supervisor of the HSE Branch in Nizhny Novgorod
Alexey Rutkevich, Professor at the School of Philosophy
Vladimir Shadrikov, Professor at the Department of General and Experimental Psychology
Ovsey Shkaratan, Professor at the Department of Applied Economics
Revold Entov, Professor at the Department of Theoretical Economics
Gennady Yakshin, President of HSE Campus in Nizhny Novgorod