Alexander Perepechko
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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Education |
| Occupation | Independent Scholar |
| Location | Seattle, Washington, United States |
| Links | Audio Clip |
| Introduction | Alexander Perepechko has been Independent Scholar in Seattle since 2006. His interests have concentrated on elites, political geography and research methodologies. From 2004 to 2006 he worked for ADS GIS & Mapping, a small IT business. Between 1999 and 2004 he was a Researcher in the Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies program at the University of Washington and an Analyst at the City of Seattle. In these jobs, he participated in creating digital databases. From 1994 to 1999 he was a doctoral student in the geography graduate program at the University of Washington. For his PhD dissertation (1999) he applied information technologies and quantitative techniques to the electoral history of Russia. His Candidate of Science degree is from St. Petersburg State University (Russia). Before coming to United States, his academic work in Belarus and France was focused on geopolitics, geostrategy and elections. For over 20 years, in his writing he has tried to apply geographic theories and methods to the history, politics, and culture of Russia, Europe and United States. |
| Interests | Books, gardening, Internet, politics, traveling. |
| Favorite movies | Andrei Tarkovsky, Alexander Sokurov, Stargate, Star Wars, Weeds |
| Favorite music | Albinoni, Bach, Genesis, Richard Blackmore, Mozart, Pink Floyd, Vivaldi, |
| Favorite books | Raymond Aron, Jean Baudrillard, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Vladimir Korotkevich, Gaetano Mosca, Lev Gumilev, Vilfredo Pareto, Georges Sorel, Pitirim Sorokin, Alexis de Tocqueville, Max Weber |