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AREA OF EXPERTISE :
Medieval costume and textiles of the North Caucasus and Central Asia

EDUCATION :
The Oriental Institute, Russian Academy of Science, Moscow
Ph. D. Thesis: The Phenomena of the Medieval Costume from the North Caucasus in the Context of the History and Culture of Eurasia (2007)

The Oriental Institute, Russian Academy of Science, Moscow
Ph.D. Student (1990-1993)

Thesis: The Medieval Costume of the North Caucasian Peoples as a Historical Source About the Region in the 7th-14th Centuries AD (1994)

Stavropol State University, Stavropol
M.A. in Archaeology (1987)
B.A. in History, Education (1985)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE :
2018 – present, Nasledie Foundation, Stavropol, Chief Researcher
2011 – 2018 Southern Scientific Center of Russian Academy of Sciences (SSC RAS), Senior researcher 
1997 – 2010 Stavropol State University, Stavropol, Professor of Archaeology and Art History
1987 – 1997 Stavropol State Museum, Stavropol, Head of the Department of Archaeology
1997 – 1994 Curator, Department of Archaeology
1980 – 1982 Stavropol State Archives, Stavropol, Archivist

GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS :
Pasold Research Fund. University of Warwick, Coventry, UK (2010)
Project: to research colours in textiles and costumes

American Council of Learned Societies, New York (2009-2010)
Project: to research medieval textile of the Golden Horde 

Cotsen Corporation for research medieval textile. Los Angeles, CA (2008)
Project: to study textile of the Mongolian period at the Victoria and Albert Museum 

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (2007-2008). Andrew W. Mellon Fellow
Project: Comparative study on Silk Textiles of the Mongolian Period in Eurasia

European Academy Award for Young Russian Scientists (1994)

CONSULTATIONS AND EXPERTISE :
Consultant at the Nasledie Foundation, Stavropol (1997-present);

Consultant at the Archaeological Center of the Central State Museum of Kazakhstan on the project “Unique Medieval Silks from Kazakhstan in the Collection of the Central State Museum of Kazakhstan. Reconstruction of Ceremonial Dress of Nomadic Aristocracy in 13th-14th Centuries” (Almaty, November of 2012);

Expertise on silks from a medieval nomadic grave from the Chagatai Ulus in the collection of the Central State Museum of Kazakhstan. Published in: The Central State Museum of Kazakhsta, vls., Almaty, 2013;

Study the collection and preparation of a scholarly catalogue of dress and fabrics of the Yuan dynasty from the collection of the China National Silk Museum (Hangzhou, China, November 2013 – January 2014).

LECTURES :
“The Role of the Nomads in the Functioning of the Great Silk Road” (the Rothermere American Institute of Oxford. Oxford, December of 2015)
“Costume as Historical and Culture Source” (the Institute of Archaeology and Antiquity the University of Birmingham, 2002)
“Role of Color in Costume of Peoples of the Northern Caucasus”  (the de Young Museum, San Francisco, September 2012; University of California, Los Angeles, October of 2012)
“Silk Fabrics of the Golden Horde: Historical, Cultural, and Ideological Aspects” (University of California, Los Angeles, October of 2012)
“Textiles in Art: the Influence of Textile Patterns on Ornaments in Architecture of Medieval Zirikhgeran” (University of California, Los Angeles, October of 2012)
“Silk Hord; Costumes and Textiles of Mongolian Empire Nomads” (TOPOI Freie Universität Berlin. November of 2014)

Field experience (1983-2015) :
Excavation of the medieval rock cemetery Khasaut in the North Caucasus
Excavation of the Eneolithic–Early Bronze Age barrows in the North Caucasus
Excavation of the mediaeval barrows in the North Caucasus
Excavation of the multi-layer sites (the Late Bronze Age and Iron Age periods) in the North Caucasus

EXHIBITIONS :
From 1994 participated in a number of exhibitions held at the State Stavropol Museum and (from 2000) at the museum of the Nasledie Foundation

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP:
International Association for Study of Silk Road Textile (from 2015)
Textile Society of America (TSA) (from 2008)
Corresponding member, Centre International d'Etude des Textiles Anciens (CIETA) since 2005
European Archaeological Associations, from 1994.

LANGUAGES :
Russian, English

PAPERS PRESENTED AT SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS :
Over 80 papers were presented during the years 1990-2015 at symposiums, conferences, and congresses in Russia, China, Ireland, France, England, Germany. 

PUBLICATIONS :

Monographs
Dode, Z.
2010 Kubachi Reliefs: A Fresh look at Ancient Stones, Moscow (in Russian).
Dode, Z. et al.
2006 The rich Golden Horde graves in the interfluves of Don and Sal rivers, VI, Stavropol (in Russian).

Dode, Z.

2001 The Medieval Costume of the Peoples of the Northern Caucasus = Srednevekovyi kostium norodov Severnogo Kavkaza, Moscow (in Russian).

Selected articles
Dode, Z.
2015 “Research of the Caucasian segment of the Silk Road in the 20th and 21th centuries,” in: Silk from the Silk Road: Origin, Transmission and Exchange. International Symposium. Proceedings. Hangzhou, China. Jct., 2015, 48-49. 

Dode, Z.
2015 “The Golden Tent and Tents from the Golden Textiles: Mongol Symbols of Power in the Nomadic and Islamic Traditions,” in: Stratum plus 6, 63-77 (in Russian).

Dode, Z.
2014 “Fabrics with Christian symbols of the costume of the Golden Horde nobles,” in:  Rossiiskaia 
arkheologiia 1, 54-66 (in Russian). 

Dode, Z. 
2014 “Hijab in cultural landscape of the North Caucasus: tradition or innovation?” in: (Eds. Yu.D. Anchabadze) Gorod v etnokul’turnom prostranstve narodov Kavkaza, 93-102. 

Dode, Z. 
2014 “Robe of  Power” and “Belt of Humility” are Honourable Dress in Mongolian Imperial Culture: Trial of Semantic Reconstruction,” in: (Ed. A.V. Yevglevsky) The Golden Horde Times. The European Steppes in the Middle Ages 13. Donetsk: National University, 7-74 (in Russian).

Dode, Z.
2014 “The influence of textile patterns on ornaments in the architecture of medieval  Zirikhgeran,” in: (Ed. by M.-L. Nosch, Zhao Feng and Lotika Varadarajan) Global Textile Encounters. Ancient Textiles Series 20. Oxford and Philadelphia: Oxbow Books, 127-139.

Dode, Z.
2013 “Headscarf and Hijab; Qalpaq and Turban: On National and Religious Traditions in the Dress of North Caucasus Peoples,” in Etnograficheskie obozrenie  4, 129-154 (in Russian).

Dode, Z.
2013 “Italy and the North Caucasus in the Reflection of one Textile Find of the 15th Century from the Belorechenskya Kurgan Cemetery,” in: Materialy po izucheniiu istoriko-kulturnogo naslediia Severnogo Kavkaza XI. Мoskva: Pamiatniki istoricheskoi mysli, 247-272 (in Russian). 

Dode, Z.
2013 “Khosrov‘s Iranian Caftan and Adygean Stream’.” Book review on Ierusalimskaia A.A. Moshtcevaya Balka: an unusual archaeological site at the North Caucasus silk road. Sankt-Peterburg: Izd-vo. Gosudarstvennogo Ermitazha, 

2012. 384 s. In: Rossiiskii arkheologicheskii ezhegodnik 3 (2013), 638 – 649.

Dode, Z.
2013 “On the Issue of Silk Weaving in Genoese Kaffa and Textiles from the Belorechenskaia Kurgans,” in: The Silk Road 11, 113-122. 

Dode, Z.
2012 “Emblems with Images of Moon, Sun and Dragons on Costumes of 13th-14th Centuries Mongolian Nomadic Elite,” in: (Ed. A.V. Yevglevsky)  The Golden Horde Times. The European Steppes in the Middle Ages 11. Donetsk: National University, 251-278 (in Russian).

Dode, Z.
2012 “Secular images in Islamic environment of medieval Zirikhgeran,” in Arkheologiia, etnografiia I antropologiia Evrazii 1 (49), 114-121 (in Russian). 

Dode, Z.
2011 “Costume as Text,” in: Dress and Identity, Birmingham City University Press, 7-17. 

Dode, Z.
2008 “Concerning boktag,” in: Rossiiskaia arkheologiia 4, 52-63 (in Russian).

Dode, Z.
2007 “Djuhta, necropole de la periode de la Horde d’ or dans le village caucasien de Djuhti, region de Stavropol.”, in Archeologie Medievale, 37.
Dode, Z.
2007 “Bestiary on the Mongolian silks: style and semantics of design,” in: Arkheologiia, etnografiia i antropologiia Evrazii 2 (30) (in Russian).

Dode, Z.
2007 “Chinese Echo in the Caucasus Mountains: Far-Eastern Imports in the Alanian Culture of 7-9 A.D.” in: Si chou dzhi li ji shu jou shen khuo, Hangzhou, 50-55. 

Dode, Z.

2006 “Byzantine parallels in the semantic space of the costume of peoples the medieval Caucasus,” in: Proceedings of the 21st International Congress of Byzantine Studies. London, 21–26 August 2006,  Abstracts of Panel Papers, London, 266–267.

Dode, Z.      
2006 “Chinese, Iranian, and Central Asian traditions in silks’ design of the Mongolian period from the Golden Horde ulus Dzhuchi”, in: Cultural Relics of the East 6(19), 43–49 (in Chinese).   

Dode, Z.    
2006 “A figured textile from Safavid Iran in the Northern Caucasus”, in: Hkil’a journal for Dress and Textiles of the Islamic World 2 (2006), 83-95.  

Dode, Z.
2005 “Determination of Chinese, Iranian and Central Asian Artistic Tradition in the décor of silk of the Mongolian Period from the Golden Horde Legacy in Ulus Djuchi”, in: Silk Road and Mongol-Yuan Art, Hangzhou, 265–277.
Dode, Z.

2005 “Dhukhta  burial Chinese fabrics of the Mongolian period, 13th–14th centuries, in the North Caucasus”, in: CIETA.Bulletin 82, 75–93. 

Dode, Z. 

2005 “A reflection of social status in the costume of the mediaeval peoples of the North Caucasus,” in: Ethnographic review 1, 146–160 (in Russian).

Dode, Z.

2005 “‘Silk paradise’ on the North Caucasus” Iranian silk of the 16th century form B.A. Kuftin collection,” in: Arkheologiia, etnografiia i antropologiia Evrazii, 2, 68–76 (in Russian).
Dode, Z.

2005 “A unique silk with “dragons” from the Dzhukhta cemetery (the North Caucasus)”, in: Rossiiskaia archaeologiia 2, Moscow, 138–150 (in Russian).
Dode, Z.

2005 “Symbols of association with Empire in the costume of the nomads of the Golden Horde,” in:
Vostok 4, 25-35 (in Russian). 

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