Zhanna (Jeanne) Kormina is an anthropologist, a specialist in the anthropology of religion and post-Soviet transformations. After graduating from the Department of History at Ural State University, she studied at the doctoral program of the Department of Anthropology at the European University at St. Petersburg. She defended her dissertation at the Russian State University for the Humanities. Since 2003, she has taught at the National Research University Higher School of Economics at St. Petersburg, and in 2022-2024, she was a research professor at the Groupe Sociétés, Religions, Laïcités, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Études – PSL, Paris, France. Kormina is the author of two monographs, co-editor of two collections of articles and of several special journal issues in Russian and English.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Books
- 2019 – Паломники: этнографические очерки православного номадизма. М.: Изд-во НИУ ВШЭ.
Reviews: Интернет-портал БайкалИНФОРМ; Челябинские епархиальные ведомости; Laboratorium; Этнографическое обозрение; Антропологический форум; Revue d’étudescomparatives Est-Ouest; Kritika.
- 2005 – Проводы в армию в пореформенной России: опыт этнографического анализа. М.: НЛО.
Reviews: Антропологический форум; The Journal of Power Institutions in Post-Soviet Societies; Kommersant, Radio Svoboda (interview)
Special journal issues
- 2024 – (with Detelina Tocheva). Marking Space Religiously. Archives de sciences sociales des religions
- 2023 – (with Tsypylma Darieva). Religious Activism in post-Socialist Space. Religion, State and Society, vol. 51.
- 2022 – (с Сергеем Штырковым и Екатериной Хониневой). Религиозная инфраструктура и религиозная материальность. Антропологический форум 55. https://anthropologie.kunstkamera.ru/files/pdf/055/kormina_khonineva_shtyrkov.pdf
- 2019 – (with Angie Heo) Religious and Borders in (Post)Cold-War Peripheries. Special issue. The Journal of Religion 99 (1)
- 2017 – (с Александром Панченко и Сергеем Штырковым) Религия, антропология и «антропология религии». Форум. Антропологический форум 34: 11-124 и 35: 11-128. In English: Forum for Anthropology and Culture 2017. 13: 11-137.
Journal articles
- accepted Popular theopolitics and the last Russian Tsar’s Intangible remains. Comparative Studies in Society and History
- 2024 – Connecting Earth and Heaven: Tsar processions of the cross, spiritual infrastructure and the Orthodox Christian citizenship. Archives de sciences sociales des religions 206: 99-122.
- 2023 – Fervent Christians: Orthodox activists in Russia as publics and counterpublics. Religion, State and Society 51: 11-29.
- 2022 – Царская дорога: невидимая инфраструктура и благочестивая работа в современном российском православии. Антропологический форум 55: 167–194. https://anthropologie.kunstkamera.ru/files/pdf/055/kormina.pdf
- 2021 – “The Church Should Know Its Place”: The Passions and the Interests of Urban Struggle in post-atheist Russia. History and Anthropology 32(5): 574-595 (in English).
- 2020 – (with Vlad Naumescu) A New ‘Great Schism’? Theopolitics of Communion and Canonical Territory in the Orthodox Church. Anthropology Today 36(1): 7-11 (in English).https://rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1467-8322.12551
- 2018 – (with Sonja Luehrmann) The Social Nature of Prayer in a Church of the Unchurched: Russian Orthodox Christianity From Its Edges. Journal of the American Academy of Religion 86(2): 393-424 (in English).
- 2018 – “Император осматривал город”: сюрреалистический социализм и политика памяти. Новое литературное обозрение 152: 34-57. https://www.nlobooks.ru/magazines/novoe_literaturnoe_obozrenie/152/article/20022/
- 2015 – Дрожжи-убийцы: Гастрономическая конспирология и культура недоверия в современной России. Антропологический форум 27: 142-175. In English: Forum for Anthropology and Culture 2016. 12: 201-229. https://anthropologie.kunstkamera.ru/files/pdf/027/kormina.pdf
