Michal Uhrin

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

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