Background
Kivinen, Markku Jalmari was born on June 5, 1951 in Helsinki.
Kivinen, Markku Jalmari was born on June 5, 1951 in Helsinki.
Doctor in Social Sciences, University Helsinki, 1989.
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, European Union and NordForsk.
Since 2012 Kivinen is leading one of the Academy of Finland"s Centres of Excellence (CoE) in Research, "Choices of Russian Modernisation".
Kivinen has also published a novel Betonijumalia in Finnish and it is translated into German (Betongötter). Markku Kivinen was awarded the City of Helsinki Research Prize in 2014.
Active member, international advisory committee University College Birmingham Center East European Language Based Area Studies, University College London Center East European Language Based Area Studies, University College Oxford Center East European Language Based Area Studies.
Married Anna Liisa Anttila. Children: Jarno Juhana, Erno Ilari, Iiro Artturi. Married Elina Kahla, 2008.