Degree: Ph.D. in Political Science (University of California, Berkeley)

Research interests: Contemporary Western political ideas, pragmatic turn in social sciences 
 

Biography: Oleg Kharkhordin graduated from the Economics Department of Leningrad University, and then studied in the postgraduate program of the Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the USSR Academy of Sciences, and in the doctoral program of the University California, Berkeley (PhD, political science, 1996). Member of the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies (1996-1998), Visiting Professor in the Department of Political Science at Yale (spring 2002), in the Department of Government at Harvard (2002-2003) and at Sciences Po, Paris (2005, 2006, 2008). While being Chair of the Department of Political Science and Sociology of EUSP (1998-2001), he started IMARS (International MA in Russian Studies), a novel program for graduate students from Western Europe and North America. He has served as Vice-Rector for Development since 2005, and has been extensively involved in creating the EUSP Endowment Fund, the first university endowment in St. Petersburg and the second one in Russia. He also founded and is now directing the interdepartmental research center “Res Publica”

Functions

• provides the overall guidance of the University;
• represents the University;
• directs the educational, scholarly, economic, and financial aspects of the University's activity;
• employs and dismisses staff members;
• administrates the EUSP through the Vice-Rectors, Deans of Departments, and Directors of unit.

Courses:

• Theory of Practices
• Introduction to "Science &Technology Studies"

Books:

• Main Concepts of Russian Politics. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2005 
• The Collective and the Individual in Russia: A Study of Practices. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1999

Edited collections:

• Political Theory and Community Building in Post-Soviet Russia (co-edited with Risto Alapuro). London: Routledge, 2010. (pdf, 2MB)
• The Materiality of Res Publica: How to Do Things With Publics (co-edited with Dominique Colas). Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishers, 2009

Articles:

• “Why res publica is not a State: The Stoic Grammar and Discursive Practices in Cicero’s Conception”, History of Political Thought vol. 31(2), Summer 2010
• Reassembling Friendship: Friendship and Politics in Contemporary Russia (PSA, 2010)
• "Qu’est-ce que la ‘chose’ de la res publica ?" Raison publique  no. 11, 2009
• “Things as Res Publicae: Making Things Public,” in Bruno Latour and Peter Weibel, eds.,  Making Things Public: Atmospheres of Democracy, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2005
•  “The Politics of Friendship: Classic and Contemporary Concerns,”  in Yehuda Elkana et al., eds., Unravelling Ties  (Frankfurt am Main: Campus, 2002)
• “Nation, Nature and Natality: New Dimensions of Political Action”The European Journal of Social Theory, vol. 4: 4, November 2001.
• “What is the State? The Russian Concept of Gosudarstvo in the European Context,” History and Theory, vol. 40, May 2001.
• “Civil Society and Orthodox Christianity”   Europe-Asia Studies, vol. 50 : 6, September 1998
• "Reveal and Dissimulate: A Genealogy of Private Life in Soviet Russia"  in Jeff Weintraub and Krishan Kumar, eds.,
• Public and Private in Thought and Practice: Reflections on a Grand  Dichotomy, (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997). Translated in French in Politix (Paris), vol. 31, Autumn 1995)
• "Russian Directors' Business Ethic: A Study of Industrial Enterprises in St. Petersburg, 1993", Europe-Asia Studies, vol. 46 : 7, November 1994 (co-authored)
• "The Corporate Ethic, the Ethic of samostoiatelnost' and the Spirit of Capitalism: Reflections on Market-Building in Post-Soviet Russia" International Sociology, vol. 9: 4, December 1994 (Translated in French in Revue d'Etudes Comparatives Est-Ouest, 1994, juin)