Academic degrees:

• 2001 – Dr.Sc. (History). Thesis title is “Intellectuals, power and society in Black Africa: on the materials of the French-speaking countries of the region in the last third of the 20th century”.
• 1988 – PhD (History). Thesis title is “Authentic Zaire nationalism: Theory and practice”.

Education:

• 1984: Faculty of History, Chernyshevsky Saratov State University.

Current Academic and Administrative Positions:

• Deputy Director for Academic Affairs, Institute of World History, RAS
• Head of the Modern and Contemporary History Department, Institute of World History, RAS
• Head of the Laboratory “Institutional History of the 20th Century”, Institute of World History, RAS
• Chief Research Fellow, Institute of World History, RAS
• Head of the Department of Asia and Africa, Institute of Scientific Information for Social Sciences, RAS
• Professor (2003)
• Professor of the Faculty of Global Studies, Lomonosov Moscow State University

Major Stages of Academic Biography:

• Director of the Saratov Branch of the Institute of World History RAS (2003–2009).
• Academic Directory of the Saratov Inter-Regional Institute of Social Sciences (2001–2010).
• Head of the Department of Modern, Contemporary, and International Relations History at the Faculty of History, Chernyshevsky Saratov State University (2001–2007).
• Dean of the Faculty of History, Chernyshevsky Saratov State University (1998–2008).

Awards and honors:

• Certificate of honor of the Russian Academy of Sciences (2018).

Research Interests:

• Colonial and Post-Colonial Studies
• Transnational History of Empires
• Intellectual History of the 19th–20th Century
• History of International Relations in the 19th–20th Century
• History of the Ottoman Empire and Turkey
• African History

Major Publications:

2020

• Mirzekhanov V. S. Temy i tendentsii noveishei istoriografii po istorii imperii // Vestnik Rossiiskogo fonda fundamental’nykh issledovanii. 2020. № 1(105). S. 15–17.

2019

• Happel J., Mirsechanow W. Sankt-Petersburg – Berlin: Jubiläen und imperiale Bilanzen // Deutschland – Russland: Stationen gemeinsamer Geschichte – Orte der Erinnerung: Das 19. Jahrhundert. Oldenbourg: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2019. S. 327–336.
• Katzer N., Mirsechanow W. Wartburgfest, Dekabristenaufstand und die heilige Allianz gegen die Revolution // Deutschland – Russland: Stationen gemeinsamer Geschichte – Orte der Erinnerung: Das 19. Jahrhundert. Oldenbourg: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2019. S. 57–66.
• Kovalev M. V., Mirzekhanov V. S. Pol’skii vopros glazami professora S. A. Konovalova // Elektronnyi nauchno-obrazovatel’nyi zhurnal “Istoriia”. 2019. T. 10, vyp. 7(81). Dostup dlia zaregistrirovannykh pol’zovatelei. URL: https://history.jes.su/s207987840006790-8-1. DOI: 10.18254/S207987840006790-8.
• Mirsechanow W. Das „lange 19. Jahrhundert“: Zugänge und Zeitmodelle // Deutschland – Russland: Stationen gemeinsamer Geschichte – Orte der Erinnerung: Das 19. Jahrhundert. Oldenbourg: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2019. S. 13–19.
• Mirzekhanov V. S. 1815 god v istorii: evropeiskaia sistema i evropeiskaia identichnost’ mezhdu krizisami i ravnovesiem v epokhu moderna // Elektronnyi nauchno-obrazovatel’nyi zhurnal “Istoriia”. 2019. T. 10, vyp. 11(85): Transformatsii mezhdunarodno-politicheskikh sistem: ot Venskogo kongressa do XXI veka.
• Mirzekhanov V. S. Versal’ i Turtsiia: ternistyi put’ k natsional’nomu gosudarstvu // Elektronnyi nauchno-obrazovatel’nyi zhurnal “Istoriia”. 2019. T. 10, vyp. 6(80).
• Mirzekhanov V. S., Trunov F. O. Evoliutsiia strategii FRG na siriiskom napravlenii: politiko-voennye aspekty // Vostok. Afro-aziatskie obshchestva: istoriia i sovremennost’. URL: https://vostokoriens.jes.su/s086919080007568-1-1/ (access date: 18.12.2019). DOI: 10.31857/S086919080007568-1.
• Vsemirnaia istoriia: V 6 tomakh. 2-e izd., ispr. i dop. Moskva: Nauka, 2019. T. 5: Mir v XIX veke: na puti k industrial’noi tsivilizatsii / Otv. red. V. S. Mirzekhanov. 943 s.
• Vsemirnaia istoriia: V 6 tomakh. 2-e izd., ispr. i dop. Moskva: Nauka, 2019. T. 6, kn. 1 / Otv. red. A. O. Chubar’ian; Zam. glav. red. M. A. Lipkin, V. S. Mirzekhanov. 692 s.
• Vsemirnaia istoriia: V 6 tomakh. 2-e izd., ispr. i dop. Moskva: Nauka, 2019. T. 6, kn. 2 / Otv. red. A. O. Chubar’ian; Zam. glav. red. M. A. Lipkin, V. S. Mirzekhanov. 644 s.

2018

• Chubar’ian A. O., Lipkin M. A., Mirzekhanov V. S. Vstupaia v XXI vek // Vsemirnaia istoriia. Mir v XX veke: epokha global’nykh transformatsii. Moskva: Nauka, 2018. T. 6, kn. 2. S. 595–603.
• Kovalev M. V., Mirzekhanov V. S. Istoriki Zarubezhnoi Rossii: modeli vremeni i zhizni // Istoricheskaia pamiat’ i rossiiskaia identichnost’ / Pod red. V. A. Tishkova i E. A. Pivnevoi. Moskva: RAN, 2018. S. 450–462.
• Mirzechanov W. Konzepte des „Empire-Nation“ und „Zentrum-Peripherie“ in imperial studies // Imperien, Nationen, Regionen: Imperiale Konzeptionen in Deutschland und Russland zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts / Hrsg. A. Wirsching und A. Čubar’jan. Oldenbourg: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2018. S. 1–9.
• Mirzekhanov V. S. Demokratiia i demokraticheskii tranzit v istoricheskoi retrospektive // Vestnik RGGU. Ser. Politologiia. Istoriia. Mezhdunarodnye otnosheniia. Zarubezhnoe regionovedenie. Vostokovedenie. 2018. № 1(11). S. 7–23.
• Mirzekhanov V. S. XX vek: volny revoliutsionnykh transformatsii // Elektronnyi nauchno-obrazovatel’nyi zhurnal “Istoriia”. 2018. T. 9, vyp. 7(71). URL: https://history.jes.su/s207987840002498-6-1.
• Mirzekhanov V. S. Kontsepty “imperiia-natsiia” i “tsentr-periferiia” v imperial studies // Imperii, natsii, regiony: imperskie kontseptsii v Rossii i Germanii v nachale XX veka / Pod red. A. O. Chubar’iana, A. Virshinga. Oldenbourg: De Gruyter, 2018. S. 1–9.
• Mirzekhanov V. S. Natsiia v imperskom i postimperskom izmerenii: mnogomernost’ istoricheskogo opyta XIX–XXI vv. // Elektronnyi nauchno-obrazovatel’nyi zhurnal “Istoriia”. 2018. T. 9, vyp. 8(72). URL: https://history.jes.su/s207987840002436-8-1.
• Mirzekhanov V. S. Obobshchenie itogovoi diskussii nauchnogo kollokviuma “Imperii, natsii, regiony: imperskie kontseptsii v Rossii i Germanii v nachale XX veka” // Soobshcheniia sovmestnoi komissii po izucheniiu noveishei istorii rossiisko-germanskikh otnoshenii / Pod red. A. Chubar’iana, A. Virshinga. Miunkhen: R. Ol’denburg Ferlag, 2018. S. 141–143.
• Mirzekhanov V. S., Kovalev M. V. Intellektual’nye migratsii XX v.: k voprosu o modeliakh izucheniia // Voprosy istorii. 2018. No. 3. S. 108–123.
• Mirzeсhanov W. Die Verallgemeinerung der zusammenfassenden Diskussion der wissenschaftlichen Kolloquium „Imperium, Nation, Region: Imperiale Konzepte in Russland und Deutschland zu Beginn des 21. Jahrhunderts“ // Der Erste Weltkrieg Deutschland und Russland im europaischen Kontext. München: De Gruyter Oldenburg, 2018. S. 134–137.
• Vsemirnaia istoriia. Mir v XX veke: epokha global’nykh transformatsii / Otv. red. A. O. Chubar’ian; Zam. glav. red. M. A. Lipkin, V. S. Mirzekhanov. Moskva: Nauka, 2018. T. 6, kn. 2. 642 s.

2017

• Grimm D. D. Vospominaniia: iz zhizni Gosudarstvennogo soveta 1907–1917 / Podgot. teksta A. V. Voronezhtseva, M. V. Kovaleva, V. S. Mirzekhanova, T. K. Shor; Vst. stat’ia M. V. Kovaleva, T. K. Shor. Sankt-Peterburg: Nestor-Istoriia, 2017. 272 s.
• Mirzechanov W. Das Osmanisch Reiches: Ein Uberblick // Der Erste Weltkrieg Deutschland und Russland im europaischen Kontext. München: De Gruyter Oldenburg, 2017. S. 164–174.
• Mirzekhanov V. S. Gorizonty identichnosti // Elektronnyi nauchno-obrazovatel’nyi zhurnal “Istoriia”. 2017. T. 8, vyp. 9(63). URL: https://history.jes.su/s207987840002037-9-1.
• Mirzekhanov V. S. Osmanskaia imperiia v gody Pervoi mirovoi voiny: anatomiia krakha // Tragediia Evropy 1939–1941 gg.: Soobshcheniia sovmestnoi komissii po izucheniiu noveishei istorii rossiisko-germanskikh otnoshenii / Pod red. A. Chubar’iana, A. Virshinga. Miunkhen: R. Ol’denburg Ferlag, 2017. S. 171–180.
• Vsemirnaia istoriia. Mir v XX veke: epokha global’nykh transformatsii / Otv. red. A. O. Chubar’ian; Zam. glav. red. M. A. Lipkin, V. S. Mirzekhanov. Moskva: Nauka, 2017. T. 6, kn. 1. 690 s.

2016

• Kovalev M. V., Mirzekhanov V. S. David Davidovich Grimm // Voprosy istorii. 2016. № 1. S. 19–34.
• Mirzekhanov V. S. Global’naia istoriia XIX–XX vv.: podkhody, modeli vremeni // Elektronnyi nauchno-obrazovatel’nyi zhurnal “Istoriia”. 2016. T. 7, vyp. 10(54). URL: https://history.jes.su/s207987840001740-3-2.
• Mirzekhanov V. S. Institutsional’nye metamorfozy v rossiiskikh universitetakh ili pochemu tak vazhny akademicheskie svobody? // Istoricheskaia ekspertiza. 2016. № 2. S. 99–105.
• Mirzekhanov V. S. Osmanskaia imperiia v gody Pervoi mirovoi voiny: anatomiia krakha // Tragediia Evropy 1939–1941 gg.: soobshcheniia sovmestnoi komissii po izucheniiu noveishei istorii rossiisko-germanskikh otnoshenii / Pod red. A. Chubar’iana, A. Virshinga. Miunkhen: R. Ol’denburg Ferlag, 2016. S. 171–180.
• Mirzekhanov V. S. Rossiisko-nemetskie intellektual’nye sviazi v zerkale novykh issledovanii // Dialog so vremenem. 2016. No. 57. S. 371–383.
• Mirzekhanov V. S., Ishchenko V. V. O rabote sovmestnoi komissii po izucheniiu noveishei istorii rossiisko-germanskikh otnoshenii // Vestnik Rossiiskoi akademii nauk. 2016. T. 86, no. 7. S. 645–649.
• Mirzekhanov V. S., Kovalev M. V. Evropeitsy i russkie v koloniiakh i na imperskikh okrainakh: k voprosu o kommunikativnykh praktikakh // Prepodavatel’ XXI vek. 2016. No. 4. Ch. 2. S. 417–427.

2015

• Mirzekhanov V. S. Fenomenologiia britanskoi identichnosti, ili razmyshleniia nad knigoi o “poslednem rytsare Britanskoi imperii” // Rossiiskaia istoriia. 2015. No. 6. S. 206–210.
• Mirzekhanov V. S. Global’naia demografiia XIX veka: osnovnye demograficheskie i migratsionnye trendy // Global’naia istoriia: sovremennaia problematika i novye issledovatel’skie podkhody / Pod red. O. V. Vorob’evoi, Z. A. Chekantsevoi. Moskva: IVI RAN, 2015. S. 33–35.
• Mirzekhanov V. S. XIX vek v mirovoi istorii (k vykhodu V toma “Vsemirnoi istorii”) // Novaia i Noveishaia istoriia. 2015. No. 4. S. 3–19.
• Mirzekhanov V. S. Religiia, politika i poiski identichnosti v postkolonial’nom obshchestve (na materialakh Chernoi Afriki) // Gumanitarnye issledovaniia v Vostochnoi Sibiri i na Dal’nem Vostoke. 2015. No. 2(32). S. 14–21.
• Mirzekhanov V. S. Uchastie soldat iz afrikanskikh i aziatskikh kolonii Frantsii v Pervoi mirovoi voine // Pervaia mirovaia voina – prolog XX veka: Materialy mezhdunarodnoi nauchnoi konferentsii / Otv. red. E. Iu. Sergeev. Moskva: IVI RAN, 2015. S. 194–201.

2014

• Mirzekhanov V. S. Evropeitsy v koloniiakh: stil’ zhizni i osobennosti mentaliteta // Vestnik RGGU. Ser. Mezhdunarodnye otnosheniia. Zarubezhnoe regionovedenie. 2014. No. 18(140). S. 38–53.
• Mirzekhanov V. S. Ideia prevoskhodstva i rasovaia ierarkhiia vo frantsuzskoi kolonial’noi kul’ture // Elektronnyi nauchno-obrazovatel’nyi zhurnal “Istoriia”. 2014. T. 5, vyp. 4(27). URL: https://history.jes.su/s207987840000720-1-1.
• Mirzekhanov V. S. Mir v XIX veke: istoricheskie sdvigi i obrashchennost’ v budushchee // Vsemirnaia istoriia v shesti tomakh. Moskva: Nauka, 2014. T. 5: Mir v XIX veke: na puti k industrial’noi tsivilizatsii. S. 845–860.
• Mirzekhanov V. S. Predislovie. Nauka, znaniia i imperskaia vlast’: paradoksy vzaimodeistviia // Elektronnyi nauchno-obrazovatel’nyi zhurnal “Istoriia”. 2014. T. 5, vyp. 4(27). URL: https://history.jes.su/s207987840000719-9-2.
• Mirzekhanov V. S. XIX vek v mirovoi istorii: problemy, podkhody, modeli vremeni // Vsemirnaia istoriia v shesti tomakh. Moskva: Nauka, 2014. T. 5: Mir v XIX veke: na puti k industrial’noi tsivilizatsii. S. 5–20.
• Mirzekhanov V. S., Mel’iantsev V. A, Vol’fson S. B. Ekonomicheskii rost, demograficheskie sdvigi i massovye migratsii // Vsemirnaia istoriia v shesti tomakh. Moskva: Nauka, 2014. T. 5: Mir v XIX veke: na puti k industrial’noi tsivilizatsii. S. 42–72.
• Mirzekhanov V. S., Reviakin A. V. Promyshlennaia revoliutsiia XIX veka // Vsemirnaia istoriia v shesti tomakh. Moskva: Nauka, 2014. T. 5: Mir v XIX veke: na puti k industrial’noi tsivilizatsii. S. 21–42.
• Vsemirnaia istoriia v shesti tomakh. Moskva: Nauka, 2014. T. 5: Mir v XIX veke: na puti k industrial’noi tsivilizatsii / Otv. red. V. S. Mirzekhanov. 963 s.

Academic supervision of current research project:

• “Transformation of Ideas of Superiority in the West and in Russia in the Late 19th–Early 21st Century” (RSF supported project no. 20-18-00482).
• “Civil Wars in West Africa, 1990–2000: Methods of Conflict Management” (RFBR supported project no. 19-39-90060 – Doctoral Researchers).
• “Imperial Politics and Identity Construction in Modern and Contemporary Era” project. Program of Fundamental Research of the Praesidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences “Culturally Complex Societies: Understanding and Managing”.

Participation in international programmes:

• Co-Director (Russia) of the European Union’s Tempus TACIS T-JER 08501-94 program “Social Sciences: An Interdisciplinary Approach” (1994–1997).
• Academic Director of the project “Phenomenology of Power: State, Society, and Individual Destiny (the Experience of Russia and the World)”, which is part of the programme “Reginal Studies in Social Sciences” carried out by the ANO “ISE-Centre (Information. Science. Education.)”, the Ministry of Education, the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies (USA), the Carnegie Corporation of New York (USA), and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation (USA) (2000–present).
• Director of the International Summer School “History of the Russian Empire: Overcoming the Shortcomings of National and Regional Narratives” (2003–2005). HESP supported project (2003–2005).

Membership of editorial boards:

• Editor-in-Chief of Modern and Contemporary History
• Editor-in-Chief of Russia and the Contemporary World
• Editor-in-Chief of Oriental and African Studies
• Editorial Board Member, Bulletin of Academic Information Russia and the Moslem World

Membership of professional associations:

• Russian Society for Intellectual History
• European Society for Global History