Professional Experience & Teaching
Current Position
2023 – 2024 Visiting Professor, Tufts University
Academic Positions
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
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
Non-Academic Positions
2017 – 2019 Curator of Public program, Iris Foundation, Saint Petersburg, Russia
2010 – 2011 Editor, Editorial and Publish Department of NRU HSE St. Petersburg
2007 – 2009 Editor of culture section, ‘Moy rayon’ newspaper
2006 – 2007 Observer, ‘Time Out St. Petersburg’ magazine
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)
Teaching
Tufts University / current
Fall 2023 Perfomance and Media Graduate course
School of the Museum of Fine Arts
Fashion and Society Undergraduate course
Sociology Department
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
Higher School of Economics in English
2020 – 2022 Media and Labour. Graduate seminar.
2020 – 2022 Gender, Media and Culture. Graduate seminar.
2018 – 2022 Political and Economic Anthropology. Undergraduate course.
2018 – 2021 Applied Anthropology. Undergraduate course.
2018 – 2019 Creativity and Urban Change. Undergraduate course.
2017 – 2021 Qualitative Methods in Social Research. Undergraduate course.
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
2020 – 2022 History and Theory of Design. Course for second and third years students.
2019 – 2021 Creative Practice in Cross-Cultural and Intermedia Perspectives. Graduate seminar.
2016 – 2019 Field Research: Methods, Practices, Emotions. Master’s scientific workshop for first and second year students.
2016 – 2019 Sociology. Undergraduate course for first year students.
2017 – 2018 Contemporary Urban Studies: Social and Spatial Inequalities. Master’s course for first and second year students.
2014 – 2016 Research Practice. Master’s course for second year students.
2014 – 2015 Sociology of Fashion. Undergraduate course for second and third year students.
2013 – 2015 ‘Culture. Consumption. City.’ Undergraduate research seminar for second, third and fourth year students.
2013 – 2015 Sociological Theory. Undergraduate course for first year students.