VICE-RECTOR FOR ACADEMIC AFFAIRS
NATALIA VLADIMIROVNA VOLOGINA
CANDIDATE OF POLITICAL SCIENCES, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
Born on July 11, 1972, in Mogilev.
In 1994, N.V.Vologina graduated with honours from the Faculty of History of the Mogilev State Pedagogical Institute named after A.A. Kuleshov.
Beginning in 1994, she worked in the Department of Political Science and Sociology of the Mogilev State University named after A.A. Kuleshov as a laboratory assistant, assistant, lecturer, senior lecturer, and associate professor.
From 1996 to 1999, she pursued postgraduate studies in the Department of Political Science of the Belarusian State University.
In 1999, she defended her candidate’s dissertation on the topic “Social Determinants of the Political Culture of Society” and was awarded the academic degree of Candidate of Political Sciences. From 2004 to 2007, she pursued doctoral studies in the same department. She was awarded the academic title of Associate Professor in the speciality “Political Science” in 2008.
In 2007, she joined the Belarusian-Russian University as Head of the Department of Humanities. On September 2, 2009, she assumed the position of Vice-Rector for Academic Affairs and International Cooperation. On October 1, 2018, she was appointed Vice-Rector for Academic Affairs.
Research Interests: History, Theory, and Methodology of Political Science; Theory of Political Culture; Sociology of Culture; History and Socio-Cultural Development of East Slavic States.
She is the author of over 60 scholarly and methodological works, including those approved by the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Belarus. In 2009, her monograph “Political Culture: Theory and Methodology” was published.
Since 2020, she has been the Head of the Core Educational Program for the field of study 41.03.01 “Foreign Regional Studies”.
Since 2022, she has served as Co-Director of the A.A. Gromyko Centre for Eurasian Studies at the Belarusian-Russian University. She co-authored the textbook “Political Science”, edited by N.A. Antonovich and recommended by the Educational and Methodological Association for Humanities Education of the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Belarus as a study guide for undergraduate students (First Cycle of Higher Education).
She is the Chairperson of the Mogilev Regional Branch of the Republic’s Public Association “Belarusian Society of Political Scientists”.
