Members of the Executive Committee

Nikita Pokrovsky RUSSIA

Head of the Department of General Sociology at the State University-Higher School of Economics in Moscow and a full professor of sociology at Moscow State University. He is known for his publications in the field of the history of sociology, social theory and cultural studies, among which are five books and numerous articles published in different Russian and international journals. Since 1999 Nikita Pokrovsky is the President of the Society of Professional Sociologists (Russia). He is a member of ISA since 1994 and served as a member of the Program Committee of ISA (1998-2002). He is a vice-president of the RC26 on Sociotechnics and Sociological Practice and International Network for the Assessment of Social Transformation (INAST, Institute of Sociology, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland). He is the recipient of several scholarly awards including the National Prize for Young Scholars (1985) in the humanities for his monograph Henry David Thoreau (later published in English). His books Early American Philosophy (Vol. I. the Puritans); Ralph Waldo Emerson: In Search of His Universe; The Problem of Anomie in the Modern World, The Maze of a Lonely Personality; Sociology: Paradigms and Themes [latter in collaboration] were favorably reviewed by academic journals in Russia and abroad. With his chapter on “Globalization of Russian Youth” he became a principal contributor to The United Nations Human Development Report 2001 for the Russian Federation. Currently, as the head of a group of leading Russian social scientists, he is maintaining a longitudinal interdisciplinary research on “Cellular Globalization and Focal Economy of Rural Communities in the North of Russia” (2003-,). In 1989, he became the first Russian scholar who won the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship at the National Humanities Center in Research Triangle Park, NC, in 1997 and 1999 he became the International Scholar-in-Residence at the Jefferson Center for International Studies (Monticello, VA). In 2003, as a Fulbright Professor, he worked at Indiana University.Among his other scholarly interests and publications are sociology of consumption and tourism, visual sociology and virtual reality. In his professional career he many times has been the head of the organizing committees of the national and international conferences and seminars.

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