Interview with Mariia Grigor'evna Kotovskaia

Abstract

Mariia Grigor'evna Kotovskaia, born in 1952, is an ethnographer and anthropologist. In 1975, she graduated from Moscow State University and in 1979 she finished graduate school at the Institute of Anthropology and Ethnography of the USSR Academy of Sciences as a specialist on issues of peoples of America. She began research on women and gender in the 1990s after founding the Group for Ethno-Gender Research at the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology (IAE RAS). At the present time, she is a professor at the Russian State University for the Humanities and the Russian State University for Design and Technology, a Leading Research Fellow at the Ethno-gender Research Division IEA RAS, Vice-President of the regional public organization Association of Women Leaders, a member of the Public Council at the Central Federal District, a member of the Academic Council entitled Development Strategies for Institutions of Civil Society in Moscow," Vice-Chairperson on the Commission on Ethnicities and Immigration Policy in the Moscow Municipal Advisory Board, a member for the Commission for Family, Children and Youth, Chairperson of the Committee on Ethnicities and Immigrant Policy of Public Communications in the Moscow Municipal Government, a Russian Federation President's Expert on Social Grants, and a member of the Public Council of the Moscow Municipal Government.