Research Interest
Citizenship; Comparative Historical Sociology; East European and Eurasian Politics and Societies; Environmental Activism; Ethnic Politics; Mixed Methods; Nation- and State-Building; Nationalism; New Institutionalism; Path Dependence; Political Sociology; Rationality and Morality; Social Memory; Symbolic Politics.
Matvey Lomonosov is received his PhD in Sociology from McGill University in Montreal. Before that, he earned a BA degree in History at Perm State University (Russia), an MA in International Relations at the University of Tirana (Albania) and an MA in Nationalism Studies at Central European University (Budapest). This multi-sited educational history has allowed him to learn several Eastern European languages and acquire broad experience in archival, ethnographic and interview research in the region. He is a comparative-historical sociologist with an expertise in mixed methods. His research focuses on nationalism, ethnic politics, social memory, citizenship regimes, and environmental activism in Eastern Europe and Eurasia. His studies have been published in different languages in Russia, Ukraine, Poland, the U.K. and the Balkan countries. Before coming to Nazarbayev University Matvey taught at the University of Tirana, McGill University, the School of Advanced Studies and the School of Environmental and Social Studies (University of Tyumen), and at the Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration. He spent the 2022 summer semester at the Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies, Stanford University.
Recently, Matvey received the Dominique Jacquin-Berdal Prize from the Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism for the best 2021 article written by an early career scholar and published in Nations and Nationalism.
“Ethnic Memories” from Above? The Kosovo Myth among the South Slavs and Minimalist Ethnosymbolism.” Nations and Nationalism. 2021. 27(4): 1111 – 1126. https://doi.org/10.1111/nana.12748
“Passport and Citizenship: Nation-Building or Nation-Destroying?” Sotsiologitcheskii zhurnal [Russian Sociological Journal]. 2021. 27(1): 76–96. https://doi.org/10.19181/socjour.2021.27.1.7845 In Russian.
“Slobodan Milošević between the Left and Right: Power balancing, political struggle, and persuasion strategies.” Slavianovedenie [Slavic Studies]. 2021. 1: 29–43. doi: 10.31857/S0869544X0012783-4 In Russian.
“Illyrianism Bosnian Style: Balkan Antiquity in Contemporary National Mythology and Identity Construction amongst the Bosniaks.” The South Slav Journal. 2012. 31 (3–4): 61-83.
“Dardania Reborn: the history of the newly-proclaimed state at the exposition of Kosovo Museum.” Etnograficheskoe obozrenie [Ethnographic Review] (Moscow, Russia). 2010. 4: 59–68. https://www.elibrary.ru/item.asp?id=15121006 In Russian.
