Russia

Sergei Mokhov, Russia

Sergei Mokhov is a cultural and historical anthropologist working on a postdoctoral position at Liverpool John Moores University and as a research fellow in Center of medical anthropology, Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Russian Academy of Science.

Sergei defended his PhD in sociology at the Higher School of Economics (Moscow, Russia). He was an Oxford Russia Fellow with a project on the Russian palliative care system in 2018-2019. His current project focuses on Soviet oncology and the care for dying people in the late USSR.

His broad research interests include different historical and cultural aspects of death and dying: the funeral industry, cemeteries, ageing, the hospice movement and palliative care, cancer culture.

Mokhov is the author of “The Birth and Death of the Funeral Industry: From Medieval Graveyards to Digital Immortality” (in Russian; Common Place, 2018). He was awarded the Alexander Piatigorsky Literary Prize (VI season, 2018–2019) for this book. Sergei is also the author of “The Brief History of Death” (in Russian; Individuum, 2020), which has just been nominated for the ‘National bestseller’ Literary Prize 2021.

Sergei is a popular expert guest in the Russian print and mass media, including Afisha, The Village, the Economist, the TV channels Kultura and Dozhd, as well as Mayak and Radio Liberty radio stations. Sergei has been a publisher and editor of “The Archeology of Death in Russia” since 2015.

Email: svmohov.hse@gmail.com