My research focuses on the exploration of verbal and visual enemy images through big data analysis. My approach is interdisciplinary, as I combine IR with media and cultural studies.
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“Everyday Foreign Policy: Performing and Consuming the Russian nation"
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TEACHING EXPERIENCE |
| SoSe 2020- |
MA seminar “Conflict Management in European Borderlands”, Applied Research Methods |
| SoSe 2020- |
BA Seminars “Theorizing European and Global Politics”, “Politics and Society Russian 1”, “Language and Society Russian 1”, “Language specific module Russian 2”, “Eurolab”, “Political Communication”, Applied Research Methods |
| WiSe 2019 |
BA Seminar “Theories of Nationalism”, University of Groningen |
| SoSe 2019 |
BA Seminar “Political Communication”,“Theories of Nationalism”, University of Bremen |
| WiSe 2018-19 |
MA Seminar “War and Peace”, University of Bremen |
| WiSe 2017-18 |
BA Seminar ‘Introduction to International Relations’, University of Bremen |
| SoSe 2017 |
Political Populism, University of Bremen |
| SoSe 2017 |
Theories of Nationalism, University of Bremen |
| WiSe 2016-17 |
Introduction to International Relations, University of Bremen |
| SoSe 2015 |
MA Seminar 'Russian Foreign Policy', University of Tübingen |
| WiSo 2014-15 |
MA Seminar 'Nationalism: Theory and Practice', University of Tübingen |
| SoSe 2014 |
MA Seminar 'Peace, Conflict, and Enemy Images', University of Tübingen |
| 09.2019 03.2012 |
English and Russian language cources, ArenaLingua GmbH |
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WORK EXPERIENCE |
| present 10.2019 |
Assistant Professor of Russian Discourse and Politics, Department of European Politics and Society, University of Groningen. |
| 10.2019 10.2016 |
Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute for Intercultural and International Studies, University of Bremen |
| 09.2015 04.2014 |
Lecturer, Chair of International Relations, Insititute for Political Science, University of Tübingen, Germany |
| 05.2012 10.2010 |
Research Assistant, Chair of International Relations, Insititute for Political Science, University of Tübingen, Germany |
| 10.2011 03.2011 |
Coordinator of Trial Watch Project, TRIAL (Track Impunity Always), Geneva |
| 10.2010 07.2010 |
Intern, TRIAL (Track Impunity Always), Geneva |
| 10.2008 07.2008 |
Intern, Konrad Adenauer Foundation, Moscow Bureau. Project on the protection of human rights of migrants |
| 09.2006 | Website translator, United Nations Environment Programme IGR-2 |
| 08.2006 | Assistant and Interpreter, UNEP/UNDP/Russian Ministry for Natural Resources National Workshop for the Russion Federation in Support of Capacity-Building of National and Local Authorities Responsible for the Implementation of the LBA Protocol to the Bucharest Convention |
| 06.2004 | Interpreter, TACIS Black Sea Environmental Programme Conference, English-Russian, Russian-English |
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EDUCATION |
| 10.2015 04.2012 |
Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany PhD in Political Science Dissertation title: "Enemies at the Gates: Threat Narratives in Putin's Russia". Date of Defence: 29.10.2015 |
| 06.2015 03.2015 |
Online Course 'Understanding the Brain: The Neurobiology of Everyday Life', University of Chicago |
| 05.2014 09.2014 |
Online Course 'Introduction to Neuroeconomics: How the Brain Makes Decisions' Higher School of Economics, Moscow |
| 07.2013 03.2013 |
Online Course 'Synapses, Neurons and Brains', Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| 03.2013 | Spring School 'Digital Mnemonics in Slavonic Studies' by Universities of Oxford, Cambridge and Passau, Freising, Germany |
| 02.2012 02.2009 |
Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany MA in Peace Studies and International Politics with honours |
| 12.2012 09.2012 |
Online Course 'Visual Semiotics', University Without Borders, Russia |
| 02.2008 10.2007 |
Freie Universität Berlin, Germany Echange semester (Political science, macro-economics, history) |
| 06.2007 10.2006 |
Freie Universität Berlin/MGIMO: German Studies Russia Programme |
| 07.2006 | Course in politics and economics, Haus Rissen Institute for Polictics and Economics, Hamburg |
| 06.2009 09.2004 |
Moscow State University for International Relations (MGIMO) BA in International Relations with honours |
| 06.2004 09.1994 |
School #23, Krasnodar Baccalaureate with advanced English study |
| 06.2004 09.1992 |
Sergei Rachmaninoff Music School, Krasnodar Piano and vocals |
I have published peer-reviewed articles and book chapters on migration, nationalism, sexuality, new media and the Ukraine crisis.
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| “F*** tha police!” à la Russe: Rancière and the Metamodernist Turn in Contemporary Russian Music - Nationalities Papers, 1-27. (with V. Morozov and A. Reshetnikov), 2022 |
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| “The Gendered Iconography of the Belarus Protest” - New Perspectives (2020): 1-10 |
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| "A Few Gay Men: Semiotics of Homophobia on Russian Social Networks and Beyond" - in J. Pankhurst and A. Kilp, (eds) "Gender, Secuality and Reproduction in Central and Eastern Europe: Religious Actors and Secular Norma in Contentious Politics", Springer, forthcoming. |
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| "Here Goes the Neighbourhood: Deconstructing Migration Discourse in Russia" - (published on the University of Tübingen website among outstanding graduate papers). |
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| "A Dreadful disease" - in: TRIAL. Die Zeitschrift der Schweizerischen Gesellschraft für Völkerstrafrecht, Dezember 2010, number 23. |
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| “Damsels in Distress: Fragile Masculinity in Digital War" - Media, War, and Conflict, online first, 2022 |
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| “Everyday Nationalism in Unsettled Times: In Search of Normality during Pandemic” - Nationalities Papers, 2020. with P. Goode and D. Stroup |
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| "World War II 2.0: Digital Memory of Fascism in Russia" - Journal of Regional Security, (2015), 10:1, 17-36. |
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| "Nationalists Old New Enemies: Sexual Deviation as an Existential Threat to Russia - in A. Verkhovsky (ed) (2014) 'Russia is not Ukraine: Contemporary aspects of Russian nationalism'. Moscow: Sova-Center (in Russian). |
EISA conference, Athens
Section chair “Bakhtin and International Relations”
ISA, Nashville, USA
“Beyond Banal: everyday assemblages of foreign policy”
ASN
“Everyday Foreign Policy: Performing and Consuming the Nation After Crimea”
ISA
“The New Russian Militarism: Memory, Militainment, and (Discursive) Violence” (paper presentation)”
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ASEEES
“The Evolution of Grass Roots Anti-Americanism during the Trump Administration”
ISA-CEEISA Joint conference, Belgrade, Serbia
“Conceptualizing Foreign Policy”
Yaroslav the Wise National Law University, Kharkiv, Ukraine
“Come All Ye Faithful” at “War and Peace and Religion: Religious Freedom during Russian-Ukrainian Conflict”
ASEEES, Chicago
“Performing Foreign Policy”, participation in roundtables "Emotions and Symbolic Order in Contemporary Russia" and “The Red Web: The Struggle over the Russian Internet and the Digital Political Space”
11th Pan-European Conference on International Relations (EISA), Barcelona
“Feminization in Digital Conflict”
BISA Interpretivism in IR Working Group Workshop, SOAS, London
“Eating Identity: Everyday Foreign in Russia”
ISA Annual Convention, Baltimore
“Patriotic Consumption”
NLO, Gefter, RANEPA “Nationalisms in Post-Soviet Space
“Empire vs. Ethnicity: Anti-Migration Sentiments in Post-Soviet Russia”
CEEISA-ISA joint convention in Ljubljana, Slovenia
“Creative Re-Appropriation as Post-Colonial Resistance Strategy”
Sociological Review Foundation Master Class with Eric Fassin, Goldsmiths, London
“Race and Femininity in Russian Foreign Policy Discourse”
European Workshops in International Studies (EWIS), University of Tübingen, Germany
"Russia: A case for Digital Anthropology".
International Studies Association Annual Convention, Atlanta, Georgia
"Of Doves and Hawks: Juxtapositions of War and Peace on Russian Social Networks During the Crisis in Ukraine".
German Federal Agency for Civic Education, Vienna, Austria
Conference Participant: “Mapping Memories of Post-1989 Europe”.
Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
“Back to the USSR: the United States as an enemy image in contemporary Russia” at the workshop “Mobilization and the Picture of the Enemy in Central and Eastern Europe”.
University of Tartu, Estonia
“Enemy Europe: Perception of Otherness on Russian social networks” at the conference ‘Estonian, German, Russian: Representations in literature and media of a tense cultural relationship’.
Free University Berlin, Germany
“(Re)-Drawing Borders: Russia and the Baltics” at ‘Regions, Boundaries, and Russia - EU Disconnections’ Workshop
Giardini-Naxos, Sicily
“Putin’s Pastorate: Post-Structuralism in the Post-Soviet”; “#Samavionavata: Normalcy of Violence in Post Soviet Russia” at 9th Pan-European Conference on International Relations, ‘The Worlds of Violence’
Konrad Adenauer Foundation, Vilnius, Lithuania
Conference Participant: “Changing Europe: Literature, Values, and European Identity”
University of Tartu, Estonia
“A Few Gay Men: Semiotics of Homophobia on Russian Social Media and Beyond” at the Workshop ‘Gender, Sexuality and Reproduction in Central and Eastern Europe: Religious Actors and Secular Norms in Contentious Politics’
University of Denver
“What’s in a Brain? Neurobiology and Security Studies” at Journal of Global Security Studies Special Issue Workshop: The Future of Global Security (Studies)
University of Tartu, Estonia
“The Gender Dimension in the Ukraine Crisis” at Platform Ukraine Seminar
University of Tübingen, Germany
“Russian Perception of the Ukraine Crisis” at Panel Debate ‘Ukrainian Crisis’
Belgrade, Serbia
“World War II 2.0: Digital Memory of Fascism in the Aftermath of Euromaidan” at Belgrade Security Forum
Toronto, Canada
“Colour Me Bad: Visual Representations of Enemies in Russia and the USA” at ISA 2014
Higher School of Economics, Moscow
“Nationalists’ Old New Friends: ‘Sexual Deviation’ as Existential Threat to Russia” at NEORUSS Workshop ‘New Developments in Russian Moderate and Radical Nationalism’
Cambridge, United Kingdom
“Crisis of Inter-Ethnic Relations in Russia” at BASEES/EUROICCEES Congress
Higher School of Economics, St. Petersburg
“Blogosphere as Natural Habitat for Analysis of Human Behaviour” at the conference ‘New Media: Changing Media Landscapes’
University of Vienna, Austria
“Social Networks and Transition to Democracy in Russia” at GRACEH 2012
University of Lund, Sweden
“Invited, but not Welcome: Post-Soviet Immigration to Russia and the Rise of Russian Ethno-Nationalism” at the Conference ‘Russia after the Soviet Empire’
Konrad Adenauer Foundation, Moscow
Conference Participant: ‘The Changing Russia: Chances for Russian-German relations’
Yekaterinburg
Conference Participant: ‘The Role of Governmental and Non-Governmental Organizations in Protection of Human Rights of the Migrants’
MGIMO University, Moscow
“Russian migration policy” at the conference ‘Russian Economic Policy’
I am the recipient of scholarships, grants, and awards from political foundations, international associations, and academic institutions.
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2016 |
| ISA Annual Convention Travel Grant | |
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2015 |
| Best PhD-Student Paper Award (European International Studies Association) for the paper "Putin's Pastorate: Post-Structuralism in the Post-Soviet" | |
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2015 |
| Gender Equality Commission Grant (University of Tübingen) |
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2012 |
| Konrad Adenauer Foundation, scholarship for talented students | |
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2009 |
| Konrad Adenauer Foundation, international cooperation scholarship |
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2007 |
| Stroitransgaz scholarship | |
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2007 |
| German Academic Exchange Services scholarship | |
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2002-2004 |
| Prizes for Olympiads in History, German, English |
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Bilingual Russian & English |
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German: Fluent |
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French: Upper-Intermediate |
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Spanish: Intermediate |
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Dutch: Intermediate |
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Ukrainian: Intermediate |
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