page_title: Markku Kivinen
hierarchical_section_title: Markku Kivinen
caption_attribution_description: English: Finnish sociologist Markku Kivinen at Helsinki Book Fair, 2016. Suomi: Sosiologi Markku Kivinen Helsingin kirjamessuilla, 2016.
context_page_description: Markku Jalmari Kivinen is a professor of sociology and the director of the Aleksanteri Institute of the University of Helsinki, Finland, since 1996.
  Kivinen's academic expertise is social theory, Russian domestic and foreign policy, transition studies in comparative perspective, social inequality, power and democracy, cultural structures and macro processes. He has more than 300 publications on key sociological topics. He is director of the Finnish Graduate School for Russian and East European Studies, as well as many research projects funded by the Academy of Finland, EU and NordForsk.
  Since 2012 Kivinen is leading one of the Academy of Finland's Centres of Excellence in Research, "Choices of Russian Modernisation". Markku Kivinen is series editor of Studies of Contemporary Russia. Kivinen has also published novels in Finnish: Betonijumalia in 2009, translated into German, and Lähetin loppupeli in 2016. Markku Kivinen was awarded Honorary Doctor of the Institute of Sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences in 2011 and the City of Helsinki Research Prize in 2014.
context_section_description: Markku Jalmari Kivinen (born June 5, 1951 in Helsinki, Finland) is a professor of sociology and the director of the Aleksanteri Institute of the University of Helsinki, Finland, since 1996. 
  Kivinen's academic expertise is social theory, Russian domestic and foreign policy, transition studies in comparative perspective, social inequality, power and democracy, cultural structures and macro processes. He has more than 300 publications on key sociological topics. He is director of the Finnish Graduate School for Russian and East European Studies, as well as many research projects funded by the Academy of Finland, EU and NordForsk.
  Since 2012 Kivinen is leading one of the Academy of Finland's Centres of Excellence (CoE) in Research, "Choices of Russian Modernisation".   Markku Kivinen is series editor of Studies of Contemporary Russia (Routledge). Kivinen has also published novels in Finnish: Betonijumalia in 2009, translated into German (Betongötter), and Lähetin loppupeli in 2016. Markku Kivinen was awarded Honorary Doctor of the Institute of Sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences in 2011 and the City of Helsinki Research Prize in 2014.
caption: Markku Kivinen
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