Komarova Galina Aleksandrovna
24 August 1948, Monchegorsk
Biography, education, career:
In 1989 at the Institute of Ethnography she defended her Сandidate's dissertation titled Modern Chuvash woman in the family and in society (on the materials of ethnostatistical survey in the Chuvash ASSR). In 2003 at the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology she defended her Doctoral thesis titled Ethnocultural aspects of man-made disaster (on the materials of the survey of the population of the southern Urals). In 1975 researcher, leading researcher of the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Russian Academy of Sciences.
Areas of expertise: Historiography, Source studies and Methodology of Ethnography; Ethnosociology; History and ethnography of the peoples of the Urals-Volga region; modern ethno-cultural and ethnopolitical processes in the Ural-Volga region and the post-Soviet space, gender studies, sociocultural problems of risk society