Associate Professor, Faculty of History, European University at St. Petersburg

Since 2011 on the staff, and in 2017–2022 chair, of the Department of Ethnography of Eastern Slavs and Peoples of European Part of Russia, Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography, Russian Academy of Sciences. Cand. hist. sc. (2006, Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography / Kunstkamera, Russian Academy of Sciences). Director of the research program on “Contemporary Approaches to Studying Memory Politics and Cultural Memory” at the European University at St. Petersburg. Scholarly interests: anthropology of memory and heritage, museum anthropology and ethnography, oral history, ethnography of borders and borderlands. Author of over 60 publications and editor or coeditor of various thematic sections in, or special issues of, leading academic journals, including “New Frameworks of Tradition and Traditionality in Russia” (2016) and “New Rurality in Present-Day Russia: Institutions, Practices, and Social Interaction” (2020) in Etnograficheskoe Obozrenie (Ethnographic Review).