"kandidat nauk"

[Edward M Dumanis]

On Tue, 5 Apr 2005, Mitsu Numano wrote:
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>      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).

Why would it be quite another story?
A PhD is always a PhD from a specific university whether it is a Western
university or not. A PhD given by Russian university is called "kandidat
nauk" in Russian. "Doktor nauk" does not have an equivalent in American
academia. It involves advising for a certain number of PhD-level
dissertations, for example.

Sincerely,

Edward Dumanis <dumanis at buffalo.edu>

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