2024-2025: Postdoctoral Researcher, KU Leuven, Belgium.
2023-2024: Senior Researcher, Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki, Finland.
2022-2023: Visiting Fellow, Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki, Finland.
2013-2022: Assistant Professor, School of Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russian Federation.
2012-2013: Postdoctoral Researcher, Faculty of Social Sciences, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russian Federation.
2009-2010: Research Fellow, Institute for Security and Development Policy, Stockholm, Sweden.
2011: PhD in Cultural Studies, European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder), Germany.
Lili Di Puppo is a research associate in the project “Muslims, the Secular, and Existential Risk” at the University of Chester, UK, and a postdoctoral researcher at KU Leuven, Belgium. Her research focuses on the anthropology of religion, anthropology-theology, existential risks, sacred sites and human-nature relations. She has conducted fieldwork in Belgium, Russia’s Volga-Ural region, Moscow and Georgia. She was an assistant professor of sociology at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow from 2013 to 2022 and a senior researcher at the Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki, in 2023-2024. She has published a special issue on Muslim ontologies, transcendence and anthropology in HAU – Journal of Ethnographic Theory and two others on Islam in Russia in Ethnicities and Contemporary Islam. She is the convenor of the European Association of Social Anthropology’s network ‘Muslim Worlds’ and co-editor of the book ‘Peripheral Methodologies: Unlearning, Not-Knowing and Ethnographic Limits’ (Routledge, 2021).
Di Puppo, Lili. 2024. “Between Remembrance and Forgetfulness: Heart Perception, Oneness and the Human-Landscape Relationship in a Bashkir Sufi Circle.” Globalizations 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1080/14747731.2024.2383012
Di Puppo, Lili. 2024. “‘What Does the Heart Want?’ Being Seen, “Heart Ethnography” and Knowledge through Surrender in a Bashkir Sufi Circle in Russia.” HAU – Journal of Ethnographic Theory 14(1): 61-73.
Vicini, Fabio and Lili Di Puppo. 2024. “Rethinking the Anthropological Enterprise in Light of Muslim Ontologies: Secular vestiges, Spiritual Epistemologies, Vertical Knowledge.” HAU – Journal of Ethnographic Theory 14(1): 7-18.
Di Puppo, Lili. 2021. “At the Core, Beyond Reach: Sufism and Words Flying Away in the Field.” In Peripheral Methodologies: Unlearning, Not-knowing and Ethnographic Limits, edited by Francisco Martinez, Lili Di Puppo and Martin Demant Frederiksen. London and New York: Routledge.
Di Puppo, Lili and Jesko Schmoller. 2020. “Here or Elsewhere: Sufism and Traditional Islam in R+[@[Curriculum Vitae (Short Narrative, max 150 words)]]+[@[Publications (List your most significant publications or works, in Chicago author-date Style of Reference).]]
2024-2025: Postdoctoral Researcher, KU Leuven, Belgium.
2023-2024: Senior Researcher, Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki, Finland.
2022-2023: Visiting Fellow, Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki, Finland.
2013-2022: Assistant Professor, School of Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russian Federation.
2012-2013: Postdoctoral Researcher, Faculty of Social Sciences, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russian Federation.
2009-2010: Research Fellow, Institute for Security and Development Policy, Stockholm, Sweden.
2011: PhD in Cultural Studies, European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder), Germany.
Lili Di Puppo is a research associate in the project “Muslims, the Secular, and Existential Risk” at the University of Chester, UK, and a postdoctoral researcher at KU Leuven, Belgium. Her research focuses on the anthropology of religion, anthropology-theology, existential risks, sacred sites and human-nature relations. She has conducted fieldwork in Belgium, Russia’s Volga-Ural region, Moscow and Georgia. She was an assistant professor of sociology at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow from 2013 to 2022 and a senior researcher at the Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki, in 2023-2024. She has published a special issue on Muslim ontologies, transcendence and anthropology in HAU – Journal of Ethnographic Theory and two others on Islam in Russia in Ethnicities and Contemporary Islam. She is the convenor of the European Association of Social Anthropology’s network ‘Muslim Worlds’ and co-editor of the book ‘Peripheral Methodologies: Unlearning, Not-Knowing and Ethnographic Limits’ (Routledge, 2021).
Di Puppo, Lili. 2024. “Between Remembrance and Forgetfulness: Heart Perception, Oneness and the Human-Landscape Relationship in a Bashkir Sufi Circle.” Globalizations 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1080/14747731.2024.2383012
Di Puppo, Lili. 2024. “‘What Does the Heart Want?’ Being Seen, “Heart Ethnography” and Knowledge through Surrender in a Bashkir Sufi Circle in Russia.” HAU – Journal of Ethnographic Theory 14(1): 61-73.
Vicini, Fabio and Lili Di Puppo. 2024. “Rethinking the Anthropological Enterprise in Light of Muslim Ontologies: Secular vestiges, Spiritual Epistemologies, Vertical Knowledge.” HAU – Journal of Ethnographic Theory 14(1): 7-18.
Di Puppo, Lili. 2021. “At the Core, Beyond Reach: Sufism and Words Flying Away in the Field.” In Peripheral Methodologies: Unlearning, Not-knowing and Ethnographic Limits, edited by Francisco Martinez, Lili Di Puppo and Martin Demant Frederiksen. London and New York: Routledge.
Di Puppo, Lili and Jesko Schmoller. 2020. “Here or Elsewhere: Sufism and Traditional Islam in R+[@[Curriculum Vitae (Short Narrative, max 150 words)]]+[@[Publications (List your most significant publications or works, in Chicago author-date Style of Reference).]]
