Sergei V. SOKOLOVSKIY, PhD. (2010 habil. in Anthropology); from 1995 to date principal research associate at the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology of the Russian Academy of Sciences; in 2004–2022 the editor-in-chief of the Russian academic journal Ethnographic Review (Etnograficheskoe obozrenie, founded in 1889); in 2012–2023 an independent expert at the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance of the Council of Europe, anthropologist, specialist in minorities and indigenous peoples rights, author of a number of monographs on this topic, including The Rights of Minorities: Anthropological, Sociological, and International Law Aspects (Moscow: Moscow Public Science Foundation, 1997); Images of the Others in Russian Science, Political Science, and Law (Moscow: Put’, 2001); On Perspectives of Ethno-National Policy Concept in the Russian Federation (Moscow: TACIS, 2004); The European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages in the Russian Federation (in English and Russian; Moscow: TACIS, 2012); Recognition Policy for Indigenous Peoples in International and Russian Law (Moscow: IEA RAS, 2016); co-author of the article collection Legal Regulation Problems of Interethnic Relations and Anti-Discriminatory Law in the Russian Federation (Moscow: TACIS, 2004), and others. He was involved as an expert in the development of the questionnaires for the All-Russian Censuses of 2002 and 2010 and in the preparation of the census results publication on ethnic identity and languages. He is the author of a large number of research papers on language policy and ethnic identification, a co-editor of collective monographs Language Policy, Conflicts and Concord (Moscow: Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 2018); Us and Them: Identity Transformation in the East and West of Europe (Moscow: Telekom, 2018); Does the Death of a Language Result in the Death of a People? Linguistic Situations and Linguistic Rights in Russia and Neighbouring States (Moscow: Telekom, 2020), and others . He edited the collections “The Ontological Turn in Russian Anthropology” (Moscow; Tomsk: Tomsk University press, 2017) and “Corporeality and Technologies” (Moscow, 2020). He also authored several ethnographies based on his field and archival research, including Mennonites of Altai. History, Demography, Onomastics. Moscow: IEA RAS, 1996) and Kryashens in the All-Russian Census of 2002 (Moscow: IEA RAS, 2004), and a series of articles related to the categorisation and ethnic identification of different population groups. His current research interests include anthropological theory and history of anthropology, digital anthropology, body studies, affective atmospheres and material semiotics.
