PhD in Culture Studies, lecturer in Museology. My research concerns museology as a discipline, museums and the (re)construction of identities; Memory Studies and museum activism.
I am holding an MA in Museology from the Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow and a second MA in Applied Cultural Analysis from Lund University, Sweden. As a museum professional, I have more than 10 years of working experience in different cultural institutions in Moscow and in Sweden at research and collection departments.
I did my PhD in Culture and Society at Linköping university, Sweden, with the focus on the use of politics in the process of museum making (and unmaking); framing of “difficult issues” which cultural institutions are dealing with in both the global and the Swedish museum context; and constituting socially relevant and sustainable museum practices based on agonistic memory framework and museum activism. As a museum professional and a museologist, I am strongly inclined towards bridging theory and practice in the field of museum and cultural heritage studies. My research focuses on the uses (and abuses) of heritage, museum politics, cultural memory, museum activism and finding cross-sections in-between these areas. I have a specific interest for memory, politics, and heritage in the post-Soviet space; decolonial museology; the working conditions of museum professionals, and, as of recently, the relation between new materialisms and digital realm in museum collections.
I am a member of International Council of Museums (ICOM) and Memory Studies Association (MSA). I am also in the Board of Swedish Genus i museer (Gender in museums) association.