"kandidat nauk"

[Mitsu Numano]

Dear Colleagues,
    I have a rather technical question.
    I would appreciate if anybody could tell me whether the Russian
gkandidat naukhdegree in Russian literature is officially considered
equivalent to the Western Ph. D. (in the job market in particular and in
academia in general).
     Is it possible, for instance, for an American to start her/his
academic career in the USA, only holding a Russian gkandidat naukh,
without an American or Western Ph.D?  I understand it would be quite
another story with the case of a Russian emigrant with a Russian
gkandidat naukh (not gdoktor filologicheskikh nauk).

Mitsuyoshi Numano
Dept. of Slavic Languages and Literatures
The University of Tokyo
mitsu at symphony.plala.or.jp

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