We congratulate Yakov Shcheglov, a staff member of the Institute for Interdisciplinary Medical Studies and a graduate of the European University's Master's program, on defending his PhD dissertation! The work was carried out at the Sociological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
The surprising result was that mathematical modeling shows conclusively that for a society to reach consensus, people need to communicate more often with people with views that differ from their own.
On March 22, 2023, Alexey Knorre, a graduate of the EUSP Faculty of Political Science and Sociology, defended his PhD thesis in criminology at the University of Pennsylvania
Congratulations to Ekaterina Khonineva, a graduate and lecturer at the Faculty of Anthropology, on her Ph.D. dissertation: "Semiotic ideologies and spiritual practices in modern Russian Catholicism: anthropological aspects".
On April 27, 2022, Lyubov Chernysheva defended her PhD thesis. Lyubov Chernysheva graduated from the Faculty of Political Sciences and Sociology in 2016 and began her studies as a postgraduate student of the Faculty of Sociology and Philosophy in 2019.