hbw23@cam.ac.uk
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Bio
Harald Wydra is Professor of Politics at the University of Cambridge and Philpott Fellow in Politics at St Catharine’s College, where he has taught politics since 2003. He holds a PhD in Social and Political Sciences from the European University Institute in Florence. He held visiting fellowships at the EHESS in Paris and the Australian National University in Canberra. He was Visiting Professor at the Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense, the Cultural Institute at the University of Wrocław, and LUISS University in Rome. He is a founding editor of International Political Anthropology (www.politicalanthropology.org).
CV
- Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Regensburg (1998-2003)
- Lecturer in Politics and Official Fellow of St Catharine’s College, University of Cambridge 2003-2019
- Director of Studies and Tutor, St Catharine’s College, University of Cambridge, 2003-present
- Professor of Politics, University of Cambridge, 2019-present
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https://www.polis.cam.ac.uk/Staff_and_Students/dr-harald-wydra
Areas of research
Eastern European Politics, Political Anthropology, Memory studies, Religion and Politics, Conflict-resolution
- Teaching
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- Comparative Politics (Russia and Poland)
- Democratisation in Europe
- Revolution
- Conceptual Issues in Politics
- Research
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- Cultural Memory in Eastern Europe
- Politics and the Sacred
- Understanding Political Anthropology
- Contesting Front Lines : A political anthropology of Violence and the possibility of self-limitation
- Publications
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Books :
Communism and the Emergence of Democracy (Cambridge University Press, 2007)
Politics and the Sacred (Cambridge University Press, 2015)
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/politics-and-the-sacred/3CFCA8B77574FC7B96F99C0DC4271C25
Breaking Boundaries: Varieties of Liminality (co-edited with Agnes Horvath and Bjørn Thomassen, Berghahn, 2015)
https://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/HorvathBreaking
Handbook of Political Anthropology (co-edited with Bjørn Thomassen, Edward Elgar, 2018).
https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/handbook-of-political-anthropology-9781839108358.html