Shnyrova O.V.
Director of the Ivanovo Center for Gender Studies
EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND
Institute of General History, Russian Academy of Science Doctorate
Dates attended 2001 - 2004
Leningrad State University Post-graduate courses
Dates attended 1980-1984
Subject/major fields Historiography
Diploma and degree received (with date) Diploma equivalent to the Doctor of
Philosophy Degree 26.12.1984
Ivanovo State University
Dates attended 1975-1980
Subject/major fields modern history
Diploma and degree received (with date) Diploma equivalent to the Master of
Arts Degree 10.07.1980
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Previous employer/institution (1985-2016)
Ivanovo State University
Faculty, department, institute: historical faculty, chair of Global history
and International relations
Position and duties: lecturer, docent (Associate Professor), director of the Ivanovo Center for Gender Studies
Research field and topic:
comparative history of women's suffrage movements in Great Britain and Russia at the beginning of
XX century, feminist and gender pedagogic, masculinity in Russia
Conferences and workshops attended (some):
ASEEES 6th Southern conference on Slavic Studies, Alexandria, USA – April 2017
11th European Social Science History Conference, Valencia, 2016
“Heritage of Great Wars in Eastern, Central Europe and Russia”, International Summer School, Varna, Bulgaria, 2015
"Heritage of the Great War and Historical Memory: Gender Aspects", International Summer School, Porto, Portugal, 2014
Aftermaths of War: seminar of research network. Leeds, November, 2013
Women’s Histories: the Local and the Global, IFRWH conference, Sheffield, September, 2013
Ninth European Social Science History Conference, Glasgow, April, 2012
Women’s Worlds-2011, Ottawa, Canada, July 2011
Eighth European Social Science History Conference Ghent, Belgium April 2010
4 1't National Convention of the American Association for the Advancement in Slavic Studies, Boston, USA, November, 2009
ESF SCH/SCSS Exploratory Workshop: “European Feminism’s Engagement With Its Own Past: The Utility of Historical Narratives in Constructing Gender-Based Identities”University of Lincoln, UK, September 2009
Aftermath of War: Women’s Movements and Female Activists, Leeds, Great Britain, 2008
Collecting women’s memoirs. Winchester, Great Britain, 2007
Suffrage, Gender and Citizenship - International Perspectives on Parliamentary Reforms/Tampere, 16-17 October, 2006
Gender and Citizenship in a multicultural context, Six European Conference on Gender Studies. Lodz, Poland, 2006
Experiences of Men/Turku,6-7 May, 2006
“The Gentler Sex: Women’s Response to the First World War”/ London, 2005
Activities (some):
1996 – till now Director of the Ivanovo Center for Gender Studies
2017 - director of the International Summer School “Gender and Reconciliation of Divided Societies”, Reggio-di-Calabria, Italy
2016 - director of the International Summer School “Overcoming war trauma in post conflict societies”, Durres, Albania
2015 - director of the International Summer School “Heritage of Great Wars in Eastern, Central Europe and Russia”, Varna, Bulgaria
2014 – director of the International Spring School “Innovations in Social Work: Comparing British and Russian Experience”, Oxford, 2014
2014 – director of the International Summer School “Heritage of the Great War and Historical Memory: Gender Aspects", Porto, Portugal
2013 – director of the International Summer School “Gender and Religion in Multicultural Societies”, Reggio di Calabria, Italy
2012 – director of the International Summer School “Personal is political: feminist’s approaches to history”, Ochakov, Ukraine
2008-2011 – regional coordinator of the RESET project “Comparative and Interdisciplinary History of Religious Traditions in Eastern, Central and South-Eastern Europe” (Central European University)
2008 – director of the interregional project “Overcoming gender discrimination” with the support of Global Opportunities Fund, British Embassy
2007 – seminars and trainings “What is gender discrimination and how to fight it?” in Khabarovsk and Vladivostok with the support of the American Academy for the Advancement of Education, project director and trainer
2007 - director of the interregional Summer school “Increasing women’s role in municipal authorities” with the support of MATRA program
2005-2006 – “Masculinity in provincial town: research and development” With the support of the Canadian Fund for Gender Equality. Project Director
2005- Research project «The role of women in local authorities of three municipalities of the Ivanovo region” with the support of the Urban Economic Institute. Project Director
Affiliations:
International Federation of the Researchers for Women’s History, the member of Russian Committee’s Board
Russian Association of Political studies, member
Consortium of Women’s Nongovernmental Associations
AAASS, member
List of some publications:
Helfert V., Stibbe M, Shnyrova O. Women and Socialist Revolution 1917-1923//Women’s Activists Between War and Peace. Bloomsbury,1917
Shnyrova O. The Woman’s Question and the National Question in the Russian Empire: Interconnections between Central and Borderland Women’s Suffrage Organizations during the First Russian Revolution, 1905-1907. // Women in Transnational History. Edited by Clare Migdley, Allison Twells and Julie Carlier. Routledge 2016
Shnyrova O. The contradictory victory: Suffrage Movement in Great Britain after Suffrage Victory, 1918-1928// Adam and Eva. Almanac of Gender History, Moscow, 2015
Shnyrova O. After the vote was won: the fate of the Women’s Suffrage Movement in Russia after the October Revolution: individuals, ideas and deeds 1918-1923// Women’s Movements and Female Activists in the Aftermath of War: International Perspectives Brill, 2011.
Shnyrova O. Women’s Victory or the Impact of Revolution? Peculiarities of Women’s Suffrage in Russia.//Suffrage, Gender and Citizenship – International Perspectives on Parliamentary Reforms,
Edited by Irma Sulkunen and Seija-Leena Nevala-Nurmi and Pirjo Markkola Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009
Shnyrova O, Feminism and Suffrage in Russia: Women, War and Revolution 1914-1917//Women and War. Palgrave, 2006
Shnyrova O. Ariadna Tyrkova.// Biographical Dictionary of Women’s Movements and Feminisms in Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe, 19th and 20th Centuries. Budapest, 2006
Shnyrova O. Anti suffrage movement as the Mirror of Women’s Suffrage in Great Britain./ Adam and Eva. Almanac of Gender History, Moscow, 2005, №9
Shnyrova O. For Freedom, for Honor! Suffragette Mission to Revolutionary Russia./ Russia-Great Britain. Publication devoted to the 450 anniversary of the establishing of the diplomatic relations. Moscow, 2005
Shkolnikov I. A., Shnyrova O. V. Women’s Suffrage and Political Parties in the Middle of XIXth – the Beginning of XXth centuries: Interaction Experience // Gender Reconstruction of the political systems. Saint-Petersburg, 2004
Shnyrova O., Zdravomyslova E. Gender Studies in Russia: The Feminology Programme at Ivanovo State University and the Gender Studies Programme at the European University at St.-Petersburg.// Good Practice in promoting Gender Equality in Higher Education in Central and Eastern Europe. Bucharest, 2001
Grants and Awards:
2009 – certificate of achievement for the development of civil society in Ivanovo region from regional government
2005 – Certificate of Achievement for the development of Women’s Parliamentary Program, International republican Institute
2004 – Fellowship of Smith Collection, Smith Library, Massachusetts University
2003 – ACLS research grant
2001 - Webb Memorial Trust Fellowship (Ruskin College, Oxford)
Additional qualifications:
Courses of Italian Language and Culture at the University of Dante Alighieri, Reggio di Calabria, Italy (A Level). Certificate, 2013
Course “English for Academic Purposes”, Ruskin College, Oxford. Certificate, 2014