Kurzvita

From 01/2024 Principal Investigator, DFG project Zootopia: Geschichte der zoologischen Gärten im Romanow-Reich, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf.

2023 Guest Lecturer, University of Helsinki.

2022-2023  Research Fellow, Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki.

2017-2022 Assistant Professor, History Department, National Research University “Higher School of Economics,” St. Petersburg.

2014-2017 Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Historical Research, National Research University “Higher School of Economics,” St. Petersburg.

2009-2014 Doctoral Researcher, Central European University, Budapest.

Forschungsschwerpunkte

Spatial history, intellectual history, history of animals, empires, nationalism, and science in East Central Europe in the long nineteenth century.

Publikationsverzeichnis 

The Promise of Ukraine: A Conceptual History of Nineteenth-Century Nationalism (Oxford University Press, 2026)

(Co-authored with Catherine Gibson and Anke Hilbrenner) “Imperial Mirrors: Multifunctional Urban Toponymy in the Romanov Empire,” Urban History (2025).

“The Value of Names: Toponymic Commercialization in Late Nineteenth-Century Kyiv,” Urban History (2025).

(Co-authored with Catherine Gibson) “Horizontal Threads: Towards an Entangled Spatial History of the Romanov Empire,” Slavic Review 84, no. 2 (2025).

“Rabies, Taxes and 'Furry Detectives': Changing Human-Dog Relations in the Late Romanov Empire, 1860s–1917,” Slavonic and East European Review 103, no. 1 (2025): 36–63.

“For Fame and Fortune: The Origins of St Petersburg's Zoo, 1865–1871,”  Urban History 52, no. 4 (2025): 604–21.