Welcome to my page! I’m a research fellow at The Trust Collaboratory at Columbia University and a lecturer at NYU Steinhardt in the Department of Applied Statistics, Social Science, and Humanities. I earned my PhD at Columbia under Shamus Khan and Gil Eyal, focusing on how post-Soviet non-democratic regimes use gender and sexuality to bolster their power globally. My dissertation combines media analysis, focus groups, surveys, and interviews to examine the interplay between international processes, state politics, public opinion, and lived experience.
Explore my latest paper on the rise of political homophobia in Russia, examining how gender and sexuality issues are framed within a national security narrative.
Before Columbia, I completed a Master’s at the University of Chicago, where my thesis explored how children’s disabilities shape family life. Earlier, I worked as a qualitative researcher at The Levada Center, Russia’s largest independent social research organization.
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