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Dr Frances Pine - Curriculum
Vitae
Current
Positions
Senior Research Fellow,
Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
Professor, Centre for
Gender Research, University of Bergen
Education
| 1969-73 |
B.A. (1st
Hons.) Social Anthropology, University of British Columbia.
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| 1974-75 |
M.Phil. Qualifying Exams, London School of Economics.
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| 1977 |
M.Phil. Social Anthropology,
London School of Economics.
Thesis title: Changes in sex roles
and the division of labour among the Akan, Ghana.
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| 1987 |
Ph.D. Social Anthropology. Thesis title: Kinship, marriage and
social change in a Polish highland village. |
Professional
Positions
| 1980-82 |
Teaching Assistant, Dept. of Social Anthropology, LSE
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| 1983-84 |
Teaching Assistant, Dept. of Anthropology, Goldsmiths College
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| 1985-87
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Part time lecturer, Continuing Education, Simon Fraser University
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| 1990-91 |
Lectureship, Dept. of Anthropology, University of Manchester
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| 1992-93 |
Lectureship, Dept of Social Anthropology, Cambridge
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| 1991-95 |
ESRC Research Fellow, Dept. of Social Anthropology, Cambridge
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| 1996-2000 |
Lectureship, Dept. of Social
Anthropology, Cambridge
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| 1996-2003 |
Bye-Fellow, and Director of Studies for Anthropology, Girton
College
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| 2000 |
Lecturer (summer session), Central European University, Budapest
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| 2002 |
Visiting Research Professor, Department of Anthropology, and
Centre for
Women’s and Gender Research, University of Bergen; Visiting Research
Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle
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| 2003 |
Visiting Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Social
Anthropology
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| 2003-2004
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Visiting Lecturer, Institute of Anthropology, Warsaw University
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| 2003-2005 |
Professor, Centre for Gender Research, University of Bergen
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| 2003-2006
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Senior Research
Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. Halle/Saale,
(Volkswagen Foundation funded project, Political, Economic and Social Exclusion and
Inclusion in Bulgaria and Poland) |
Consultancies
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BBC radio and TV concerning Polish culture and economy, for instance a
recent BBC World Service program on changing families and the
feminisation of poverty
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Reports for
lawyers representing asylum seekers, including Roma, and women and
children (domestic violence)
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Compiling
a report on business ethics for the Simon Fraser University, Canada |
Research
Awards
| 1969-73 |
British Columbia Government Scholarships for academic excellence.
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| 1977-80
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SSRC Fellowship
(PhD field research in rural Poland).
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| 1977 |
Central Research Fund field research grant.
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| 1977-79 |
British Council Fellowships
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| 1981 |
British Council Bursary
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| 1987-88 |
SHRC (Canada) Seed Grant
(Fathers and Fatherhood in English Canada)
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| 1988-90 |
ESRC Fellowship
Project: Marriage, inheritance and illegitimacy in rural Poland
1800-1980
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| 1991-96 |
ESRC Fellowship
Project: Women’s kinship
networks and economic activities in post-socialist Poland (intermitted 1994-95)
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ESRC
Grant for national survey (with CBOS - Polish Public Opinion Surveys)
on women in the post-socialist Polish economy
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| 2003-06 |
Volkswagen
Foundation Research Project, Political Economic and Social Exclusion and
Inclusion in Bulgaria and Poland. |
Fieldwork
I have carried out fieldwork in
both rural and urban Poland over the last 25 years during which time
I’ve lived in Poland for periods from 2 years to 2 months.
Topics researched: kinship, memory and
place/belonging, migration (east-west, west-east, local and
transnational), emergent economies in the post-socialist countries and
post-socialist transformations generally, gender and social security (particularly east central Europe)
Language
skills
 | native in English and fluent
in Polish |
| working
knowledge of French |
| beginners
German |
Professional
Associations and Activities
| Member:
Association of Social Anthropologists; European Association of
Anthropologists |
| Board
Member 1997-2000 Royal Anthropological Association |
| Secretary
1999-2000 Cambridge Committee on Russian and Eastern European
Studies |
| Founding
member Centre for Democracy and Society (SOAS, UCL and Cambridge) |
Recent
Conferences
Participation at a large number of
conferences worldwide since the 1980s.
This includes roles as conference organizer, organizer of panels
and keynote speaker at conferences.
| 2000 |
Panel Organiser, Politics, Religion and Memory, European
Association of Social Anthropologists Conference, Krakow.
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| 2000 |
Opening Plenary Speaker, EASA conference, Krakow.
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| 2000 |
Panel Organiser, Motherhood: ideologies and practices, World Congress
for Slavonic and Eastern European Studies, Tempera.
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| 2000 |
Keynote Speaker, Conference Women in Post-communist Societies,
University of Bergen.
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| 2002 |
Conference co-organiser, Gendering Globalisation in Eastern and
East-central Europe, Centre for gender Research, University of Bergen.
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| 2003 |
Conference co-organiser, On the Margins of Religion, Max Planck
Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle/S.
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| 2003 |
Keynote Speaker, ESRC Seminar Series Opening Conference, Trans-National
Issues, Local Concerns: Insights from Russia, Central and Eastern Europe
and the UK, CREES, University of Brimingham.
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| 2004 |
Conference co-organiser, Social
Security, vulnerability and resilience in Central and Eastern Europe:
gendered and generational perspectives.
Centre for Women’s and Gender Research, University of Bergen.
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| 2005 |
Workshop co-organiser, Gendering the State, Gendering the Body, Centre
for Women's and Gender Research, Bergen.
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| 2005 |
Panel co-ordinator, Gender issues in the former socialist states, Fifth
Nordic conference on Postsocialism, Oslo. |
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