Current Position​

2025 – current                      Visiting Assistant Professor in Russian and Slavic Studies, NYU​

Academic Positions

2023 – 2024                          Visiting Professor, Tufts University​

2022 – 2023                          Postdoctoral Researcher, NYU Jordan Center

 

2020 – March 2022             Associate Professor: Department of Sociology,
                                               Higher School of Economics in Saint Petersburg, Russia

 

2018 – March 2022            Chair: Department of Design and Contemporary Art,
                                              Higher School of Economics in Saint Petersburg, Russia

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2013 – 2020                         Senior Lecturer: Department of Sociology,
                                              Higher School of Economics in Saint Petersburg, Russia

 

2017 – 2018                        Senior lecturer, British Higher School of Art and Design,
                                              Moscow, Russia

 

2011 – 2017                       Research Fellow: Centre for Youth Studies,
                                            Higher School of Economics in Saint Petersburg, Russia

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Non-Academic Positions

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2022 – current   Curator at TAEX, digital art platform, London, UK

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2017 – 2019      Curator of Public Program, Iris Foundation, Saint Petersburg, Russia

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2010 – 2011      Editor, Editorial and Publishing Department of NRU HSE St. Petersburg

2007 – 2009      Editor of culture section, ‘Moy rayon’ newspaper

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2006 – 2007      Observer, ‘Time Out St. Petersburg’ magazine

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Education

 

2019                   PhD in Art Sociology, “Creative Labour in Russia: Structural Conditions, Professional  Identities
                           and  Careers”, Bielefeld University, Germany — Higher School of Economics, Russia

 

2009 – 2011       MA in Sociology, Higher School of Economics in Saint Petersburg, Russia

 

2005 – 2009       BA in Liberal Arts, Bard College, NY (double degree with
                            Saint Petersburg State University)

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Teaching

 

 

New York University/current

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Spring 2026        Style and Empire: From Red Dior to Wartime Glamour Graduate course

                              

                              Soviet Fashion Undergraduate course                       ​

 

Fall 2025              Hipster and The Ghost of Communism: Creative Industries in Eastern Europe Undergraduate cours                      

                               Soviet Subcultures Graduate seminar

                         

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Spring 2025        Art and Resistance: History of Contemporary Art in Eastern Europe Graduate course

               

                              Soviet Fashion Undergraduate course

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Fall 2024              How to: (Analyze) Fashion  Undergraduate course

                               NYU Steinhardt

 

                        

Teachers College, Columbia University 

 

Spring 2024         Research seminar in Arts Administration (IP Defense course)
                               Arts Administration MA    

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                               Fashion and Society Undergraduate course

                               Sociology Department

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Tufts University 

 

Fall 2023        Perfomance and Media Graduate course

                        School of the Museum of Fine Arts

 

                         Fashion and Society Undergraduate course

                         Sociology Department

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Spring 2024    Art & Resistance in Eastern Europe Undergraduate course

                         Sociology Department

 

                         Research methods for Participatory Art Undergraduate course

                         School of the Museum of Fine Arts

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Higher School of Economics in English

 

2020 – 2022    Media and Labour. Graduate seminar.

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2020 – 2022    Gender, Media and Culture. Graduate seminar.

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2018 – 2022    Political and Economic Anthropology. Undergraduate course.

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2018 – 2021    Applied Anthropology. Undergraduate course.

 

2018 – 2019    Creativity and Urban Change. Undergraduate course.

 

2017 – 2021    Qualitative Methods in Social Research. Undergraduate course.

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2017 – 2018    Contemporary Theory and Methods in Social Anthropology. Undergraduate course.

 

2015 – 2021   Cultural and Inequality. Undergraduate course.

 

2017 – 2018   Anthropology of Science and Religion. Undergraduate course.

 

 

Higher School of Economics in Russian

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2020 – 2022   History and Theory of Design. Course for second and third years students.

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2019 – 2021   Creative Practice in Cross-Cultural and Intermedia Perspectives. Graduate seminar.

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2016 – 2019   Field Research: Methods, Practices, Emotions. Master’s scientific workshop for first and second year students.

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2016 – 2019   Sociology. Undergraduate course for first year students.

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2017 – 2018   Contemporary Urban Studies: Social and Spatial Inequalities. Master’s course for first and second year students.

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2014 – 2016   Research Practice. Master’s course for second year students.

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2014 – 2015   Sociology of Fashion. Undergraduate course for second and third year students.

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2013 – 2015   ‘Culture. Consumption. City.’ Undergraduate research seminar for second, third and fourth year students.

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2013 – 2015   Sociological Theory. Undergraduate course for first year students.

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