In 1979, she graduated from the Philosophy Department of RSU. In 1984, she completed her postgraduate studies in social philosophy at Leningrad State University, defending her thesis on the topic "The Social Functions of Historical Science." In 1997, she completed her doctoral studies at Rostov State University and defended her dissertation on "The Formation of Ethnicity as a Subject of Political Life in the 1990s." Since 1985, she has taught first at the Novocherkassk Polytechnic Institute, and since 1990 at the Rostov State Pedagogical University (now SFedU).
From 1999 to 2014, she headed the Department of Social Communications and Technologies. She is currently a professor in the Department of Russian History of the 20th and 21st Centuries at the Institute of History and International Relations at SFedU.
From 1999 to 2012, she was the scientific director of the sociological laboratory "Center for Applied Sociological Research" of the Russian State Pedagogical Univ. (Southern Federal University), which focused on the problems of interethnic relations in the North Caucasus:
armed conflict in the Chechen Republic from 1994 to 1996, interethnic tensions in the republics of the North Caucasus and regions of the Southern Federal District, the formation of civil identity in the multiethnic regions of the North Caucasus and the Southern Federal District. From 2013 to 2020, she was the regional project manager for projects carried out by SFedU under the State Assignment of the Ministry of Education and Science in collaboration with the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology of the Russian Academy of Sciences to monitor interethnic relations and the religious situation in the Southern Federal District, as well as a co-implementer of grants on issues of interethnic relations, civic identity and social integration, supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research and the Russian Science Foundation.
Currently, he is a co-executor of the Russian Science Foundation grant No. 25-28-00703 on the topic "The societal role of the Russian language in the integration of the multi-ethnic South of Russia." The results of these and other projects are reflected in collective monographs and articles, in academic journals (a total of more than 170 works), including:
Averyanov A.V., Denisova G.S., Ponomareva M.A. et al. Ethnoconfessional processes in the South of Russia in the modern period (1914-2000s). Publishing house of Southern Federal University, 2021. - 177 p. - https- c49903bc-cf63-4d2d-8d6d-f6179011246b.pdf (42507476)
Denisova G.S., Averyanov A.V., Vorobyov S.M., et al. The National Policy of the USSR and Its Influence on the Modern Ethnopolitical Situation in the Perceptions of the Youth of the North Caucasus. Stavropol: Byuro Novostey, LLC. 2022 – 370 p.
Denisova G.S., Kovalev V.V. Cossacks in the border regions of Russia in the context of the Central Military District: identity and military attitudes // South-Russian Journal of Social Sciences. 2023. Vol. 24, No. 4. Pp. 46-70.
Denisova G.S., Avdeev E.A., Vorobyov S.M. Conflictogenic risks of ethnocultural foundations of identity of student youth: the case of the frontier North Caucasus region // Regionology. 2024. Vol. 32, No. 2 (127). P. 198-216.
Denisova G.S., Avdeev E.A., Vorobyov S.M. The role of the Russian population in the socio-cultural integration of the peoples of the North Caucasus: demographic dynamics and perceptions of student youth of the Stavropol Territory // Science. Culture. Society. 2024. Vol. 30, No. 1. Pp. 62-79.
Research interests:
Operations to restore constitutional order in Chechnya, 1994-1996. History of the armed conflict in the Chechen Republic and adjacent territories of the Russian Federation.
The center and regions in the history of the USSR and the history of the Russian Federation in the 1990s. Interethnic relations and ethnopolitical processes in the regions of the Southern and North Caucasian Federal Districts. Civic and civilizational identity in the multiethnic regions of the Southern and North Caucasian Federal Districts.