Akademischer Werdegang
2022 – 2025
- Researcher at the Institut für Kunstgeschichte, Leipzig University, in the project Zur Neubewertung der Naiven Kunst. Internationale Rezeption und theoretisch-methodische Erschließung, funded by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation
2025
- Doctor of Philosophy, Comparative History, Central European University. Dissertation: Making Crafts Soviet: Folk Art Industry and its Institutions, Policies, and Materialities, from the 1917 Revolution to 1960
2021 – 2022
- Visiting Fellow at the Leibniz-Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung (ZZF), Potsdam
2021 – 2023
- Teaching Fellow in the Global History Lab (GHL), an international educational programme coordinated by Princeton University in partnership with the Open Society University Network, University of Potsdam, and Central European University
2013 – 2021
- Researcher and Lecturer at the School of Cultural Studies, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow
2014
- M.A. in Cultural Studies, School of Cultural Studies, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow
Forschungsschwerpunkte
- Material Culture Studies
- Cultural History of the Soviet Union
- Sociology of Art and Culture
- Institutional History
- Exhibition History
- Popular Culture Studies
Publikationen (Auswahl)
- 2027 Chapters “Introduction”, “Amateurs at the Russian Museum: Nikolai Punin and Exhibitions of Non-professional Art (1928–1930),” “International Exhibition of Children’s Drawings in Moscow (1934) and the Reassessment of Children’s Art and Creativity in the 1930s,” “Wood between Folk Tradition and Artistic Renewal in Late Socialism.” In Reevaluating Naïve Art: International Reception and Theoretical-Methodological Perspectives, edited by Elizaveta Berezina, Nina Breuer, and Tanja Zimmermann. Berlin: De Gruyter (forthcoming).
- 2025 Making Crafts Soviet: Folk Art Industry and Its Institutions, Policies, and Materialities, from the 1917 Revolution to 1960. PhD diss., Central European University.
- 2025 “Caught in the Net: Cooperation of the Lacemakers in Vologda Region, 1920s–1930s.” In Humanitarian Handicraft: History, Materiality and Trade, edited by Claire Barber, Helen Dampier, Rebecca Gill, and Bertrand Taithe. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2025: 182–205.
- 2023 “Experts and Artisans at the 1937 Paris World’s Fair: The Case of the Soviet Pavilion.” Art East Central, no. 3 (2023): 59–77.
- 2021 “Lacquered History: Soviet Crafts and Problematic Memory of the Twentieth Century.” Martor. Visual Ethics after Communism, no. 26 (2021): 47–54.