Rubén Flores Curriculum Vitae Higher School of Economics 20 Myasnitskaya Ulitsa, Moscow, 101000, Russian Federation Email: rflores@hse.ru ACADEMIC POSITIONS Assistant Professor, School of Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, 2011-present. Invited Visiting Researcher (on sabbatical leave), National University of Ireland Maynooth, Department of Sociology, September-October 2016. Interim academic director, International MA Program in Comparative Social Research, Higher School of Economics, March - August 2015. Research visitor, Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science, London School of Economics, January - July 2011. Assistant Lecturer, University of Kent, 2005-2011. EDUCATION Ph.D., Sociology, University of Kent, 2009. Postgraduate Certificate in Methods of Social Research, University of Kent, 2005. Licenciatura (BA), Sociology, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (National Autonomous University of Mexico), Mención honorífica, 2003. PUBLICATIONS Peer Reviewed Articles Flores, R. (2014a) From personal troubles to public compassion: charity shop volunteering as a practice of care, The Sociological Review, 62(2): 383 399. Flores, R. (2013) When Charity Does Not Begin at Home: Exploring the British Socioemotional Economy of Compassion, Sociological Research Online, 18(1). <http:// www.socresonline.org.uk/18/1/17.html> Rubén Flores, March 2017, p.!1
Brown, P. and Flores, R. (2011) Making Normative Structures Visible: the British National Health Service and the Hospice Movement as Signifiers of Compassion and Hope, Acta Sociologica, 54(1): 61-75. Articles under Review Brown, P., Alaszewski, A., and Flores, R. Understanding the 2013 Compassion Scandal in the English NHS in historical context: a longer-term lens for health policy analysis, revise and resubmit, Social Policy and Administration. Ivanou, A. and Flores, R. Urban Activism in Izmailovo, Moscow: Approaching the Dialogue between Political Process Theory and the Theory of Practice currently under submission with Social Movement Studies. Flores, R. and Brown, P. The changing place of care and compassion within the English NHS: a socio-historical perspective, currently under submission with Social Theory and Health. Enríquez Pérez, I. and Flores, R. La crisis de la vida pública y su incidencia en el subdesarrollo: incursiones en torno a la debilidad de las instituciones y del Estado en México, currently under submission with Revista de Sociologia e Política. Book Project Healthcare and development in the early 21st century: insights from emerging market societies (book contract with Edward Elgar). Book Chapters and Other Articles Brown, P. and Flores, R. (forthcoming) The informalisation of professional-patient interactions and the consequences for regulation in the United Kingdom. In: Professional Health Regulation in the Public Interest: International Perspectives, edited by M. Chamberlain, M. Dent, and M. Saks, Policy Press. Flores, R. (2015) Making sense of suffering: insights from Buddhism and Critical Social Science In: Ron E. Anderson (ed.) World Suffering and Quality of Life. Dordrecht: Springer, pp. 65-73. ISBN: 978-94-017-9670-5. Flores, R. (2014b) Apropos The Collected Works of Norbert Elias. An Interview with Stephen J. Mennell, Sociologica: Italian journal of sociology online, 3, doi: 10.2383/79482 Book Reviews Rubén Flores, March 2017, p.!2
Flores, R. (2009) Review of: Owen Flanagan. The Really Hard Problem. Meaning in a Material World, Journal of Consciousness Studies, 16(9), p. 108-111. Flores, R. (2015) Review of: Guy Standing, A Precariat Charter: From Denizens to Citizens, Sociological Research Online, 20(3). CONFERENCE PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS Ethical Reasoning and the Sociological Curriculum: or Why Sociology Programs Should teach Ethics (with Ryan Burg). Invited speaker. National University of Ireland Maynooth, Department of Sociology (1 March 2017). Configuring professional practice? The embeddedness of care and compassion within long-term social processes and broader social configurations (with Patrick Brown). International Sociological Association RC52 Interim Conference: Professions, Bonds and Boundaries (19-21 March 2015), Milan, Italy. Buddhism and Critical Social Science on the Causes of Suffering: Towards a Dialogue. Paper presented at the XVIII International Sociological Association World Congress of Sociology (13-19 July 2014), Yokohama, Japan. Fostering Compassion in Healthcare Settings: A Sociological Perspective (with Patrick Brown) The Association of Medical Humanities Annual Conference (7 9 July 2014). University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom. Searching for justice in early twenty-first century Russia: Land related collective action as a catalyst for social participation (with Aleh Ivanou), Roundtable presentation, American Sociological Association 108 th Annual Meeting: Linking Micro and Macro (August 10-13 2013, New York, USA). From personal troubles to humane forms of social action: A study of charity shop Volunteers in the UK American Sociological Association Annual Meeting 2012, (17-20 August 2012), Denver, USA. Does capitalism undermine or enable humane forms of feeling thinking, and acting? Sociological reflections Social Science History Association 27th Annual Meeting (1-4 November 2012, Vancouver, Canada). Causality and Mechanisms in Sociology Poster presented at the Mechanisms and Causality in the Sciences Conference, Centre for Reasoning, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK, September 2009. Rubén Flores, March 2017, p.!3
Finding Common Ground: The Space Between Social Research and Social Neuroscience Presented at Our Brains, Our Selves - Aarhus Mirror Workshop. Historical and Ethnographic Approaches to the New Brain Sciences. Organized by the European Neuroscience and Society Network in conjunction with the Global Minds Conference, University of Aarhus, Denmark. December 2008. Towards a cosmopolitan institutional framework for the protection of human rights Presented at the Berlin Roundtables on Transnationalism - Irmgard Coninx Stiftung, October 2005. TEACHING EXPERIENCE Instructor, School of Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences, Higher School of Economics: Care and Body Practices in Modern Societies, MA Course co-taught with Evgeniya Golman; Autumn 2015; Autumn 2016. How to write a book review. Workshop for Ph.D. Students; 11 March 2015; 1 March 2016. Sociological Reasoning: the Philosophy, History, Sociology and Practice of Social Research, BA Course co-taught with Dr. Lili di Puppo (Winter-Spring 2016), Dr. Sarah Busse Spencer and Dr. Lili di Puppo (Winter-Spring 2015), and Dr. John Round (Winter-Spring 2014). Moral sentiments and public policy, Guest seminar for the MA course Ethics, Economics, and Politics, HSE Public Policy Faculty, Winter 2014. The Sociology of Care, MA Course; Autumn 2014. Civil Society, Civility and the Third Sector, MA Course; Spring 2012; Spring 2013; Autumn 2013. Sociology of Development, BA course; Autumn 2011; Autumn 2012. Assistant Lecturer, University of Kent: The third sector: nonprofit associations, charities, NGOs & social enterprise in modern society, BA course (Instructor: Dr. Jeremy Kendall); Spring 2011. Social Problems and Social Policy I: Youth, the Family, and the State, BA Course (Instructor: Ms. Laura Hart); 2009. Development and Underdevelopment, BA Course (Instructor: Professor Frank Furedi); Autumn 2005-Winter 2006. Rubén Flores, March 2017, p.!4
STUDENT SUPERVISION Co-supervision (with Professor Leon Kosals), MA thesis of Patrick Whelan. MA Programme in Population and Development, Higher School of Economics, February 2016-present. Co-supervision (with Dr. Lili di Puppo), MA thesis of Miguel Sevilla Mayol. International MA in Comparative Social Research, Higher School of Economics, October 2015-June 2016. ADVISORY ROLES AND COMMITTEE PARTICIPATION Peer reviewer. Sociological Research Online (2014; 2016); Springer (2014); Sociology (2011; 2014; 2016). Organising committee. International Research Seminar Series, HSE School of Sociology, 2011- present. Admission committee for international students. International MA in Comparative Social Research, Higher School of Economics, 2016. Master s thesis committee. International MA in Comparative Social Research, Higher School of Economics, 2016 Organiser. Graduate Workshop Power, knowledge and civilisation: Norbert Elias's anti-kantian sociology taught by Professor Emeritus Stephen Mennell, 14 November 2013. Organising committee. Political Economy of the World System round tables, American Sociological Association annual conference, 2013. Organising committee. international symposium Political Ideologies and the Third Sector, University of Kent, April 2008. AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS 2004-2008. Post-graduate Scholarship. Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología, México. 2004-2005. Overseas Scholarship. University of Kent. 2004. European Union high-level scholarships to Latin America (Program Alßan) (declined). 2002. Award for Academic Excellence. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS American Sociological Association, German Sociological Association, Social Science History Association, Unión de Científicos Comprometidos con la Sociedad. LANGUAGES Spanish (native speaker); English (proficient user); German (independent user); Russian (independent user); French (basic user); Japanese (basic user). Rubén Flores, March 2017, p.!5