Michal Uhrin
Mgr. Michal Uhrin, PhD.
Areas of professional interest
- Anthropology of religion
- Evolutionary anthropology
- Cognitive anthropology
- Theory, methodology and history of ethnology
- Theory, methodology and history of sociocultural anthropology
Courses - teaching
- Anthropology of religion
- Cooperation and reciprocity in ethnological perspective
- Introduction to Ethnology for non-ethnologist
- Kinship and family in evolutionary perspective
- Introduction to evolutionary anthropology
- Theory, methodology and history of sociocultural anthropology 1,2, (in collaboration with prof. T. Bužeková)
- Rituals and ritualisation 1 (in collaboration with prof. T. Bužeková)
- Anthropology of rituals 1 (in collaboration with prof. T. Bužeková)
- Methodology of social sciences (in collaboration with prof. T. Bužeková)
- Methodological foundations of ethnographic research (in collaboration with prof. T. Bužeková) Ethnographic museums (in collaboration with prof. M. Botiková)
- Seminar for the bachelor thesis 1,2
- Seminar for the diploma thesis 1,2
- Seminar for the bachelor thesis research project
- Seminar for the diploma thesis research project
Research - Projects
- Moral narratives about religious and ethnic groups in the teaching of selected subjects in primary schools. VEGA no. 1/0194/20, Department of Ethnology and Museology, Faculty of Arts, Comenius University in Bratislava. Project leader: RNDr. Tatiana Bužeková, PhD. Co-researcher: Mgr. Michal Uhrin, PhD.
- Collective rituals as a means of social regulation. VEGA 2/0102/19, Institute of Ethnology and Social Anthropology Slovak Academy of Sciences. Project leader: Mgr. Vladimir Bahna, PhD. Co-researcher: Mgr. Michal Uhrin, PhD.
- Symbolic classifications of danger. VEGA 1/0421/17. Department of Ethnology and Museology, Faculty of Arts, Comenius University in Bratislava. Project leader: RNDr. Tatiana Bužeková, PhD. Co-researcher: Mgr. Michal Uhrin, PhD.
- Democracy and Citizens in Slovakia: Half a Century of Change. APVV-0627-12. Institute of Sociology SAS. Role in the project: Conducting ethnographic research in 2015.
- Kinship and cooperation - Grants for doctoral students and young researchers UK UK / 306/2017. Department of Ethnology and Museology, Faculty of Arts, Comenius University in Bratislava. Project leader: Mgr. Michal Uhrin, PhD.
CV
Education
2011-2014 - Bc. Ethnology, Comenius University in Bratislava
2014-2016 - Mgr. Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, Comenius University in Bratislava
2016-2020 - PhD. Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, Comenius University in Bratislava
Awards
2018 - Laureate of the Student Personality of Slovakia of the academic year 2017/2018 in the category: philosophy, political science, sociology, pedagogy
Editorial activity
Editor of the journal Ethnological Debates
Membership in scientific societies
Slovak association of social anthropologist Ethnographic society of Slovakia
Research visits
March 2017 - SAIA, n. o. - Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology of the Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland
February 2018 - London: Study visit: with Professor Chris Knight
April - May 2019 – Utrecht Network Young Researcher’s Grant - LEVYNA - Laboratory for Experimental Research on Religion, Department of Religious Studies, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic