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| During the 2002-2003 academic year, Olga Chistykova was a visiting research professor at The George Washington University, affiliated with the Research Program in Social and Organizational Learning. Her stay in USA was supported by the Junior Faculty Development Program, which is funded by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. Her advisor at the George Washington University was Professor Paul Duff, Department of Religion.
Olga Chistyakova is a professor in the Department of Philosophy at Novorossiysk State Academic Maritime Academy. She is currently teaching courses in Russian Religious Philosophy, The Theory and History of Culture, Christian Anthropology and the Philosophy of Religion. She created two new courses in the USA: 1. Christian Culture in Russia, Western Europe and in the USA: Comparative Analyses and 2. Cultural Anthropology. She has investigated the main trends of theological thought in the United States for her monograph, “Religious Philosophy in the United States.”
Education September 1996- September 1999: Post Doctoral Studies in Philosophy at the University of Rostov-on-Don, Russia; graduated with dissertation (degree: Doctor of Philosophy). The title of her dissertation was, “The Problem of a Person in Orthodox Theology: Cultural and Methodological Analysis” November 1989-November 1992: Doctoral Studies in Philosophy at the University of Rostov-on-Don, Russia; graduated with Dissertation (Kandidat of Philosophical Sciences). The title of her dissertation was, “Scholastic Thinking as a form of Metaphysics from Medieval to Contemporary Times.” September 1982-June 1987: Undergraduate studies in Philosophy (major) and Theory and History of Culture (minor) at Rostov-on-Don University, Russia; graduated with a Master’s diploma (Diploma for teaching of Philosophy). The title of her Master’s Thesis was, “The Early Works by Karl Marx: Philosophical Analysis.” Research Fields History of Philosophy Olga has published extensively in the field of Religious Philosophy and Philosophical and Religious Anthropology, focusing on the learning of human problems in the Christian religion. She wrote two monographs analysing man’s status in the Orthodox religion in the Byzantine Empire and in Ancient Rus. Now, Olga is working on a monograph, which will be concerned with the problems in the modern Orthodox Church in Russia and in the Catholic and Protestant Churches in the USA. Olga Chistyakova has written more than thirty articles for scholarly magazines and collections and several books. The following are the most important ones: “Moral Improvement of the Personality as the Paradigm of Orthodox Culture,” Orthodox Morality and Revival of Russia. Rostov-on-Don, 1997. Eastern Patristic Philosophical Culture: Logical Analysis. Monograph. Moscow, 1998. “Anthropology of Eastern Orthodoxy: Spiritual Traditions,” Scientific Thought of the Caucasus, Rostov-on-Don, 1998. Gnosiology (the theory of cognition) of Orthodox Theology. Monograph, Moscow, 1999. The Problem of Man in Eastern Orthodoxy Patristic. Monograph, Moscow, 1999. “Antimony as the main principle of anthropology and the theory of knowledge.” News of Higher School, North-Caucasus Region, Public Sciences,1999. “The Conception of God Understanding in Eastern Theology: Existential, Supernatural and Ascetic Gnosis.” Proceedings of the International Conference, “Byzantine Theology and Traditions of Religious-Philosophical Thought in Russia,” St. Petersburg, 2000. “The Secular and Religious Values in the Orthodox Church,” Bulletin of the Russian Philosophical Society. Issue II, Moscow, 2001. |
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