Heiko Schrader, Prof. Dr. habil. rer. soc., economist M.A.

Present Position:  Professor of Sociology at the University of Magdeburg
From 1998-2003 Professor of Social Anthropology at the State University of Saint-Petersburg, Russia
To 1997: Reader at the Sociology of Development Research Centre, Univ. of Bielefeld

Main field of interest: cultural and economic sociology, social anthropology, development issues, sociology of transformation

Several years of field research in: Nepal, India, Thailand, Singapore, Indonesia, Russia

Visiting Professorship (DAAD) at the State University of Saint-Petersburg from 1997-99

Visiting fellowships in St. Petersburg and at the Univ. of Mumbai (ongoing)

Consultant to ILO, GTZ et al., member of the BieDAG (Bielefeld Development Advisory Group)

Member of the editorial board of the book series 'Market, Culture and Society' and 'Gesellschaftliche Transformationen/Societal Transformations' (both LIT Publ.) and the Journal of Sociology and Social Anthropology (Saint-Petersburg)

Member of the International Sociological Association, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie, Deutscher Hochschulverband, EUROSEAS, Chairman of the Association of German Sociologists of Development and Social Anthropologists (ESSA) from 2004-2006, Vice-Chairman from 2007-2008

Member of an international advisory board for coordinating a social program in New Delhi (Hope Project)

Research projects (selection)

- Conduct of Life in Post-Socialist Societies (planned)

- Slum Research in Mumbai /India (2004, 2007)

- Small enterprieses in Russia, Bulgaria and Czech Republic (2002-2004). Volkswagen foundation (with E. Dittrich and Ch. Stojanov).

- Lombard Houses in Saint Petersburg: pawning as a survival strategy of low-income households? (1999-2000) Volkswagen Foundation.

- Changing Financial Landscapes in India and Indonesia (1991-1992). DFG scholarship

- Trading Patterns in the Nepal Himalayas (1985). DAAD/Friedrich-Naumann scholarship

Address: Otto-von-Guericke-Universität, Institut für Soziologie, Postfach 4120, D-39016 Magdeburg
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