Dr. Marina Butovskaya

Department
Center for Social Anthropology

Position
Chief Researcher

Academic degree
Dr. hab. in History, Professor

Background

Primary place of employment: Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology of the RAS. Head of the Sector of Cross-Cultural Psychology and Human Ethology since 2008.

Currently conducts joint research projects with Prof. Weisfeld (University of Detroit, USA), Prof. Sorokowski (University of Wrocław , Poland) in the field of cross-cultural anthropology and psychology; in the field of evolutionary psychology - with Dr. Fink (University of Göttingen, Germany); in the field of biological anthropology and human evolution - with Prof. Schafer (University of Vienna, Austria), Prof. Manning (Swansea University, UK) and Prof. Mabulla (University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania).

Academic and educational activity

Courses taught:

• Human ethology and foundations of evolutionary psychology;
• Evolutionary foundations of human behavior.

Has supervised 7 Ph.D. dissertations.

Area of expertise

• Evolution of man and society,
• Human ethology,
• Evolutionary psychology,
• Aggressive human behavior and its genetic foundation,
• African studies,
• Traditional societies of northern Tanzania.