Professional Experience & Teaching
Current Positions
2020 – Present Associate Professor: Department of Sociology, Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Area Studies, HSE
2018 – Present Chair: Department of Design and Contemporary Art, School of Arts and Humanities, HSE
Academic Positions
2019 – 2020 Research Fellow: Center for Arts, Design and Social Research, Residencies (CAD+SR)
2017 – 2018 Guest lecturer, British Higher School of Art and Design, Moscow
2017 – 2019 Curator of a lecture series on social sciences, Iris Foundation (New Holland Island)
2015, 2017, 2018 Visiting fellow, Bielefeld University
2014 – 2017 PhD-fellow, Centre for German and European studies SPSU- Bielefeld University
2013 – 2020 Senior lecturer: Department of Sociology, Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Area Studies, HSE
2011 – 2018 Research Fellow: Centre for Youth Studies, St. Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Humanities, HSE
Non-Academic Positions
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 Sociology, “Creative Labour in Russia: Structural Conditions, Professional Identities and Careers” (Date of public defence: 03.04.2019)
2011 – 2017 PhD-student National Research University Higher School of Economics Moscow (Sociology Department). Viva is scheduled for April 2019. Title: ‘Creative Labour in Russia and the UK: Careers, Identities, and Working conditions’
2009 – 2011 MA in sociology, St. Petersburg branch of NRU HSE
2005 – 2009 BA in liberal arts, Smolny Institute of Liberal Sciences and Arts, St.-Petersburg State University / Bard College, NY
2003 – 2004 Student at Philosophy Department, SPBU
Teaching 2020-2021
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Applied Anthropology (Minor; School of Arts and Humanities; 3, 4 module) ENG
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Economical and Political Anthropology (Minor; School of Arts and Humanities; 1, 2 module) ENG
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Gender, Media and Culture (Master’s programme; Faculty of Communications, Media, and Design; 1 year, 4 module) ENG
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Infrastructures of Contemporary Art and Production (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Communications, Media, and Design; 2 year, 1-4 module) RUS
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Introduction to Sociology for Designers (Bachelor’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 1 year, 1, 2 module) RUS
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Media Projects in the Sphere of Culture (Master’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 1 year, 4 module) ENG
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Qualitative Methods in Political Research (Bachelor’s programme; Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Area Studies; 2 year, 1, 2 module) ENG
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Research Seminar “Culture and Inequality” (Bachelor’s programme; Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Area Studies; 2-4 year, 1-3 module) ENG
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Sociology of the Arts (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Communications, Media, and Design; 3 year, 1-4 module) ENG
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Theories and Practices of Creative Industries (Master’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 1 year, 1, 2 module) RUS
For a full list of past courses, please refer to the following link