Svetlana Tatunts

Svetlana A. Tatunts, (Светлана Ахундовна Татунц; * 1953 in Baku, USSR) - Armenian born Russian researcher of sociology, ethnicity, ethnic and national conflicts. Full professor at the Department of World politics at Moscow State University named after Lomonosov (MSU) and counsellor and expert for various political and state institutions of the Russian Federation.

Biography

Svetlana Tatunts graduated from the History Department of Baku State University in 1978 and earned a Ph.D. in social sciences from Moscow State University in 1983. After several years as associate professor she earned a Doctor of science degree for her Sc.D. thesis on "Ethnosociology as a science" at the MSU Faculty of Sociology in 1996. The year before she conducted research at the Sociological Department of Regensburg University, Germany.

Professor Tatunts taught at the MSU Faculty of Sociology from 1998 to 2008, and owing to her ethnosociology has become a part of the academic curriculum for sociologists at Moscow State University and further on at other Russian universities. She was the author of the Russian State curriculum for “Ethnosociology” and “Ethnics in political sciences” according to the State standard of the Russian Ministry of Education and Science and mentor for a number of Ph.D. and Master’s theses in these fields.

In 2008 Professor Tatunts changed to the MSU Faculty of World politics where she lectures at the chair in regional problems of world politics and does research. S.A. Tatunts is a member of the Russian Sociological Association and the International Institute of Sociology. She holds a Certificate of Honor of the Russian Ministry of Education and Science.

Research interests

S.A. Tatunts wrote more than 50 scientific works in the field of sociology, political science and conflict studies, published in Russia, Germany and Italy. The regional focus of her research lies on the C.I.S. countries as well as Central and Western Europe.

Her particular scientific interests are in interethnic relations, ethnic minorities, tolerance and xenophobia, ethnic migration processes in the modern world, the integration of immigrants in Eastern and Western European countries. She also works on ethnic conflict and diaspora as а factor of modern foreign policy and political conflict resolution in C.I.S. countries.

Selected works

• Will autumn come to „nationalism“? About nation, nationalism and national politics. Moscow, 1995 (Наступит ли осень «национализма»? К вопросу о нации, национализме и национальной политики)
• Interethnical contradictions and conflicts in the North Caucasus region of the Russian Federation. Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag 1997 (Interethnische Widersprüche und Konflikte in der Nordkaukasus-Region der Russischen Föderation. In: Robert Hettlage (Hrsg.) Kollektive Identität in Krisen. Ethnizität in Region, Nation, Europa.), p. 216-226
• Ethnopolitical conflicts and geopolitical factors (scientific editor, author: O.I.Arshba), Moscow, 1998 (Этнополитические конфликты и геополитические факторы - научная редакция, автор: Аршба О.И.)
• Ethnosociology, Moscow, 1999 (Этносоциология)
• Nation and nationalism. History and theory in texts and documents, Moscow, 2002 (Нация и национализм. История и теория в текстах и документах)
• Immigration, Integration, Naturalization. Experiences of Western European countries (scientific editor, author: O.I.Arshba), Moscow, 2012 (Иммиграция, интеграция, натурализация. Опыт западноевропейских стран - научная редакция, автор: Аршба О.И.)