Albert Doja

Albert Doja obtained his PhD in Social Anthropology in 1993 from the School of Advanced Studies in Social Sciences (EHESS) Paris and his Habilitation in 2004 from Descartes University of Paris, Sorbonne.

He is a Professor of Anthropology at the University of Lille, France.

Since 2008, he is also a full member of the National Academy of Sciences, Albania, holding the first Chair of Anthropology.

Educated in social anthropology in France (EHESS Paris and Descartes University Sorbonne), Albert Doja had since expanded his research interdisciplinaryly across social, political, and anthropological theory. His primary area of research interest is in sociocultural anthropology and is focused on European studies, mainly in the Southeast European area, which allows him to provide empirical and historical analyses of social relations grounded on fieldwork and ethnographic materials. His ongoing research projects may be understood as extending his earlier work on social organization, gender construction, identity politics, collective representations, cultural activism, and knowledge production in Albanian and Southeast European contexts. Among other things, he had extensively worked and published on interethnic conflict and wartime sexual violence, as well as on the anthropological study of religion and the instrumentality of religious movements as they are lived and practiced in different cultural and political contexts. He was also lead to explore the contemporary issues of intercultural dynamics of social norms and values, the ideological and instrumental foundations of religious meanings, identity transformations and international representations, and the sociocultural approaches to global political processes.