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Ekaterina Belooussova, Ph.D
Yahromskaya St. 6, Apt. 204
Moscow , Russia 127411
Phone: 095-485-2531
Email: urport@cityline.ru

Dr. Ekaterina Belooussova is currently working on a project affiliated with the Russian State University for the Humanities in Moscow, Russia. Her project, supported by the Research Support Scheme, is entitled " Natural Childbirth" Movement in Russia: An Anthropological Perspective".

Ekaterina received her Ph.D. in Culture Theory from the Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow, Russia. She conducted her undergraduate studies and master’s in Classical Studies at the Department of Classical Studies at St. Petersburg State University, Russia. Her research interests are in contemporary urban folklore, medical anthropology, and gender studies.

Other projects that Ekaterina has been involved in include: "Contemporary Urban Popular Culture", Ideas and Beliefs, Concerning Childbirth, in Contemporary Urban Culture," and "Childbirth in Russia as seen by our Contemporaries." Ekaterina has also written several research papers as well as served as an editor and translator for a Russian publisher.

In the fall of 2001, she presented a lecture on, "The image of a spiritual midwife in contemporary Russian urban folklore," at the American Folklore Society Meeting and the National Park Service Beringia Days Conference, in Anchorage, Alaska.