Эско Шмоллер
Senior researcher at the Centre for Comparative History and Political Studies in Perm. Schmoller is an anthropologist who wrote his PhD at the Central Asian Seminar of Humboldt University Berlin. The book “Achieving a Career, Becoming a Master; Aspirations in the Lives of Young Uzbek Men” was published in 2014 with Klaus Schwarz. He continues to work about local Muslim pilgrimage, saint veneration and Sufism in the Russian Urals. Further issues of interest to him include Tatar culture, religious, ethnic and national identity, decolonisation, emergence and becoming. He also acts as a reviewer for the journals Ethnicities, Asian Ethnicity, Nationalities Papers, Ethnic and Racial Studies and Laboratorium.
Сontact: j.schmoller@gmx.net
University Education
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Jan 08 – Nov 12 |
Humboldt University Berlin, Germany Central Asian Studies (PhD with magna cum laude) |
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Oct 99 – May 06 |
Hamburg University, Germany Social Anthropology (MA), Japanese Studies and Literature |
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Oct 03 – Jan 04 |
Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan Japanese Language Studies |
Work Experience
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Sep 19 – Dec 19 |
Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin, Germany Visiting fellow |
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Oct 18 – Dec 18 |
Käte Hamburger Kolleg “Dynamics in the History of Religions Between Asia and Europe”, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany Visiting fellow |
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Sep 14 |
Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Sweden Visiting fellow |
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Nov 13 |
South Kazakhstan State Pedagogical Institute Visiting lecturer (sponsored by the DAAD) in academic mobility programme |
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Mar 13 – Apr 14 |
Association Berlin Palace, Hamburg, Germany Educator in the framework of the “Berlin Palace / Humboldt-Forum” project |
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Apr 12 – Mar 13 |
Humboldt University Berlin, Central Asian Seminar Lecturer |
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Sep 07 – Dec 07 |
Tashkent Financial Institute, Uzbekistan Lecturer |
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Feb 07 – Jul 07 |
Tashkent State Law Institute, Uzbekistan Lecturer |
Selected Publications
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2020 |
With Lili Di Puppo: “Introduction: Normative orders and the remaking of Muslim spaces and selves in contemporary Russia”. In: Ethnicities 20(4), 653–666. |
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2020 |
With Lili Di Puppo: “Here or elsewhere: Sufism and traditional Islam in Russia’s Volga-Ural region”. In: Contemporary Islam 14(2), 135–156. |
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2020 |
With Lili Di Puppo: “Introduction: Studying Islam from below and interrogating divisions in contemporary Russia”. In: Contemporary Islam 14(2), 99–110. |
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2020 |
“The Talking Dead: Everyday Muslim Practice in Russia”. In: Nationalities Papers 0(0), 1–16. |
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2020 |
“Clientelism and the State in Uzbekistan”. In: Etkind, Alexander; Minakov, Mihail (eds.): Ideology After Union. Political Doctrines, Discourses and Debates in Post-Soviet Societies. Stuttgart: ibidem. |
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2019 |
With Lili Di Puppo: "The Revival of Sacred Sites in the Urals: The Local and Beyond". In: Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics 13(2), 143–145. |
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2019 |
With Lili Di Puppo: "Sacred Geographies and Identity Claims: The Revival of Sacred Sites in the Post-Soviet Space". In: Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics 13(2), 124–127. |
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2019 |
“Une Présence Spectrale: L’insaisissable État d’Ouzbékistan” [Engl. A Ghostly Presence: The Elusive State in Uzbekistan]. In: Anthroplogie et Sociétés 43(2), 47–66. |
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“The Unfolding of the Tulip: From Ethnic to Religious Identification among Volga Tatars”. In: Anthropological Journal of European Cultures 27(1), 109–114. |
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2018 |
With Lili Di Puppo: “Islam and Ethnicity in Russia: An Introduction”. In: Anthropological Journal of European Cultures 27(1), 84–87. |
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2017 |
“Dissolving the Myth of an Objective Reality”. In: Central Asian Affairs 4 (2017), 299–302. |
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2017 |
“Embodying Moral Superiority: The Master-Apprentice Relationship and National Cultural Heritage in Uzbekistan”. In: Problems of Post-Communism 64(6), 370–381. |
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2016 |
“Love for Detail: the value of regional studies”. In: Forum for Anthropology and Culture No. 28 (guest editor: Sergei Abashin), 132–136. |
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2014 |
Achieving a Career, Becoming a Master; Aspirations in the Lives of Young Uzbek Men. Berlin: Klaus Schwarz. |
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2013 |
“Clientelism and the State in Uzbekistan”. In: Ideology and Politics 2(4), 29–37. |
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2013 |
“Trust and Deception in (Post-)Soviet Uzbekistan”. In: ASIEN 129, 113–121. |
Recent Presentations
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Dec 2019 |
“Intersecting Paths: Sufi Connections Across the North Caucasus and the Russian Urals” Double-lecture with Shamil Shikhaliev, Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin, Germany |
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Aug 2019 |
“The Here and After: Engaging with fragrant realities in Muslim-minority Russia” Summer school “Reassembling Social Anthropology in Russia: Ethnography, Anthropology, History”, Tyumen State University, Russia |
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May 2019 |
“A Notion of Paradise: Manifesting another Reality by Using Fragrance in Muslim-Minority Russia” Indiana University Europe Gateway, Berlin, Germany |
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Nov 2019 |
“Setting the Process in Motion: Muslim Pilgrimage in Russia and the Coming of a New World” Conference “Terror on Tour 2018”, HEAD Geneva, Switzerland |
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Oct 2018 |
“Attending to Cultural Brokenness by Restoring Tatar Islam” Workshop, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia |
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Aug 2018 |
“A Place of One’s Own: redefining territory through pilgrimage in Russia’s Ural region” Bi-annual conference of the European Association of Social Anthropologists, Stockholm University, Sweden |
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Jun 2018 |
“Hidden in Open Sight: Sufism in the Volga-Ural and the In/Visibility of Islam in Russia” Workshop, Forum Transregionale Studien, Berlin, Germany |
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Apr 2018 |
“‘How much for the water from Mecca?’ Religious consumer products in the Muslim south of Perm region” Higher School of Economics, Perm, Russia |
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Sep 2017 |
“Community through Muslim solidarity” Workshop, Friedrich Ebert Foundation, Tirana, Albania |
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May 2017 |
“The Flock of Birds Protects the Weak Ones: Profiting from Muslim solidarity in the Urals” Annual world convention of the Association for the Study of Nationalities, Columbia University, New York, USA |
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Feb 2017 |
“An Introduction to Muslim Solidarity” Higher School of Economics, St. Petersburg, Russia |
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Dec 2016 |
“Capitulation: our surrender to global merchandise” Ufa State Petroleum Technological University, Russia |
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Dec 2016 |
“Things Making People: a new approach to material culture” Ufa State Petroleum Technological University, Russia |
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Jun 2016 |
“Above the Roofs, the Cupola’s Golden Light: Muslim politics of visibility in the city of Perm” Conference, Perm State University, Russia |
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Jun 2016 |
“The Mountains of Barda: Creation of Tatar space in the Muslim south of Perm region” Regional conference of the Central Eurasian Studies Society, Kazan Federal University, Russia |
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Apr 2016 |
“The Culture of Civility (odob) and its Influence on the Educational System in Uzbekistan” Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia |
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Oct 2015 |
“Thriving in the Radiance of the Master: Elevation of the workplace superior in the Uzbek public service” Conference, Aix-Marseille-Université, Aix-en-Provence, France |
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Oct 2015 |
“Person, Time and Conduct in Uzbekistan: The performative aspect of patronage and other social relations” Annual meeting of the Central Eurasian Studies Society, George Washington University, Washington DC, USA |
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Sep 2015 |
“How to Pray as a Tatar in Russia?” New lecture series, Syddansk Universitet, Sønderborg, Denmark |
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May 2015 |
“At All Times at Your Command: Performing boundaries in the Uzbek civil service” International workshop, Centre for Cultural Studies of Postsocialism, Kazan Federal University, Russia |
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Mar 2015 |
“Discrepancies between the Apparent and the Real in the Uzbek Civil Service” Oriental Seminar, European University in St. Petersburg, Russia |
Selected Courses
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2020 |
“Empire State of Mind” Perm State University, Russia |
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2020 |
“Beyond Constructivism: A Paradigmatic Shift in the Social Sciences” Perm State University, Russia |
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2019 |
“Cultural Relativism, the post-Colonial Critique and the Decolonisation of our Knowledge and Perception” Perm State University, Russia |
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2018 |
“Blackness, Racial Identity and Body Politics” Perm State University, Russia |
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2017 |
“Strength in Unity: Gaining an Understanding of Muslim Solidarity” Perm State University, Russia |
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2016 |
“Cliques, Networks, Control, Intervention: State and Society Entwined and Divided” Perm State University, Russia |
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2016 |
“The Poetry of Things: An Introduction to Material Culture” Perm State University, Russia |
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2016 |
“Islam in the post-Soviet Space” Perm State University, Russia |
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2015 |
“Studying the State in Different Cultural Contexts” Perm State University, Russia |
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2014 |
“Introduction to Cultural History” Perm State University, Russia |
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2013 |
“The State in Central Asia” Humboldt University Berlin, Germany |
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2012 |
“Individual and Collective in Central Asia and Russia” Humboldt University Berlin, Germany
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