HASANOV RAFAIL MUSA

Head of the Department Sociology

Doctor of sociological sciences, professor
Tel (work): +994 12 4380421
e-mail: Hassanovrm@yahoo.com

PERSONAL DATA

I was born in 1962 in Baku in the family if intelligentsia.
After the finishing high school in 1979 I worked as a worker for one year and then during 1980-1985 studied at Russian Federation’s Kazan State Pedagogical Institute’s History-Philology School’s History-Social Sciences-English branch. In 1985-1986 and 1987-1989 worked as a secretary of comsomol committee in vocational and technical schools in Kazan.
In 1986-1987 served in the army as an officer in the Russian Federation
After returning to Azerbaijan worked as a sociologist-engineer at the Sociological Research Center in Baku and worked as an instructor at Azerbaijan Oil Academy and later as a professor at the private Khazar University.
Since 1998 up today I occupy the position of associate professor at the department of Sociology at Baku State University.
I am married and have two children.

EDUCATION AND ACADEMIC DEGREES OBTAINED

2006, Doctor of Sociological Sciences. Institute of Philosophy and Political-Juridical Research, National Academy of Sciences, Baku, Azerbaijan.
1994, Candidate of Philosophical Sciences (PhD). Institute of Philosophy and Law, National Academy of Sciences, Baku, Azerbaijan.
I-VI/1994 , Business School of the Nottingham Trent University. The British Council Training Course in Azerbaijan.
1980 – 1985, Kazan State Pedagogical Institute, Faculty of History, Social Sciences and English, Russian Federation.

COMPLETE PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND

4/2006 - pres. Head of the Center for Evaluation of Education and Social Research, Azerbaijan State University of Languages (part time work)
1/98 - pres. Acting professor at the Department of Sociology, Baku State University
4/97, Dean of the School of Law and Social Sciences; Chair of the department of Political Science and International Relations, Khazar University (Azerbaijan)
11/96, Associate professor at the Department of Philosophy and Social Sciences, Khazar University
7/94 – 11/96, Assistant of professor at the Department of Philosophy and Social Sciences, Khazar University
8/93 – 7/94, Instructor, Khazar University
11/90 – 8/93, Instructor, Azerbaijan State Oil Academy
2/89 – 11/90, Sociologist-engeneer at the Sociological Research Center at the Parliament of Azerbaijan Republic
I teach ‘History of Sociology’ and ‘Methodology and Methods of Sociological Research’ at the undergraduate and some special disciplines at the graduate levels.
Amount of scientific articles: 54
Amount of books: 1 monograph and 2 books

PRESENT RESEARCH INTERESTS

Civil society building, processes of democratization in Azerbaijan.

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES, SYMPOSIUMS

2003 – Have participated at Harvard University conference.
Have been accepted to participate in the Sociology session of the Central European University’s Curriculum Resource Center (29 November - 4 December, 2004).
TEMPUS Project on “Designing Quality Assurance Systems in Azerbaijani Universities”; training courses and workshops; Warsaw University (9-13 June 2008)

LIST OF SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

1. ‘Transformational Processes and the Problem of National Security in Azerbaijan’, - Baku, “Info”, 2003 (coauthor).
2. ‘Islam in the Socio-Political Life of Azerbaijan’,- Sociological Research, Moscow, V.3, 2003.
3. ‘Sociology’. Handbook for university students. Baku, 2003 (coauthor).
4. ‘Civil Society Formation in the Conditions of Transformation’, - Baku, 2003.
5. ‘Problems of democratization: civil society building in Azerbaijan’, - Transactions of National Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan. Series of History, Philosophy and Law, 2005, №5-6.
6. History of Sociology. Curriculum for undergraduate students. Baku, 2008.
7. ‘Civil Society, Social Capital and local self-government inAzerbaijan’. Bulletin of Baku State University. Socio-political Sciences series. V.4, 2008.
8. Social Capital, Civic Engagement and the Performance of Local Self-Government in Azerbaijan. Nationalities Papers, UK, Volume 37 Issue 1 January 2009, pp.89-114.

BOOKS

1. Islam. Democracy. Civil Society. Baku, 2000.
2. ‘Transformational Processes and the Problem of National Security in Azerbaijan’, - Baku, “Info”, 2003 (coauthor).
3. ‘Civil Society Formation in the Conditions of Transformation’, - Baku, 2003.

INTERNATIONAL AND DOMESTIC GRANTS, PROGRAMS

1. Sponsored by US Information Agency and Organized by American Council of Teachers of Russian/American Council for Collaboration in Education and Language Study (ACTR/ACCELS) Regional Scholar Exchange Program Fellowship. A postdoctoral project at Indiana University (September 1994 – March 1995)
2. Civic Education Curriculum Development Project, Montana State University, USA (September - December, 2000)
3. Selected as a member of a research group by the RSS Committee for a Group Research Support Scheme of the Open Society Support Foundation Grant (№ 2086/863/2000) ( 2000 – 2002)
4. Selected as an author for the writing of the student’s handbook on ‘Introduction to Sociology’ by the Open Society Support Foundation and the Ministry of Education of Azerbaijan Republic (December, 2001). Published in 2003
5. Selected by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) for carrying out research work in Germany, Johan Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main (July – September, 2002)
6. Received a grant for the Open Society Institute’s Faculty Development Fellowship Program (2003). Brown University (USA, Rhode Island, Providence).
7. Received a grant for the Open Society Institute’s Faculty Development Fellowship Program (2005). Brown University (USA, Rhode Island, Providence).
8. Received a grant for the Open Society Institute’s Faculty Development Fellowship Program (2007). Brown University (USA, Rhode Island, Providence).
9. Received a grant of the Eurasian Foundation-Caucasian Research and Resource Center’s Research Publication Fellowship Program (№ of the project: C07-0611) (duration of the project: July 2007 – April 2008).