Leading Research Scholar, Institute of Scientific Information for Social Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences (INION RAN)

Leading research scholar, Institute of World History, RAS. Professor, State Academic University for the Humanities. Dr. Phil. (2001, Saratov State University), Cand. Phil. Sc. (1997, Saratov State University). Professor in Social Anthropology and Social Work. Associate editor of the journals Sotsial’nye i gumanitarnye nauki (Social Sciences and Humanities: Series 9: Oriental and African Studies) and Meditsinskaia antropologiia i bioetika (Medical Anthropology and Bioethics); editorial board member for Postkolonializm i sovremennost’ (Postcolonialism and Modernity). Vice-president of the Association of Medical Anthropologists. Scholarly interests: medical anthropology, social and cultural history of health care. Author of Social Health and Modernization: Social Healthcare in Europe and Asia in the 19th–20th Centuries (2025, co-auth. with I.V. Mikhel, in Russian); Telo v zapadnoi kul’ture (2000, in Russian); Voploshchennyi chelovek: zapadnaia kul’tura, meditsinskii kontrol’ i telo (2000, in Russian); Meditsinskaia antropologiia: issleduia opyt bolezni i sistemy vrachevaniia (2015, in Russian).