Kurzvita

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

2023  Guest Lecturer, Helsinki University.

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 ostdoctoral 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 

“For Fame and Fortune: The Origins of St Petersburg's Zoo, 1865–1871,” Urban History.

“Ukrainians as 'Aliens' (Inorodtsy): Governmental Regulation of Ukrainian Cultural Associations, 1905–17,” Russian Review 83,2 (2024): 174–192.

An inconsistently nationalizing state: the Romanov empire and the Ukrainian national movement, 1906–1917,” in: Yoko Aoshima and Darius Staliunas, eds. The Tsar, the Empire, and the Nation. Dilemmas of Nationalisation in Russia’s Western Borderlands, 1905–1915 (Budapest: Central European University Press, 2021), 17–31.

“Malorosiis’kyi/ukraïns’kyi teatr v Rosiis’kii imperiï, 1881–1894” [Little Russian / Ukrainian theatre in the Russian empire, 1881–1894], Spadshchyna [Heritage] 15 (2020): 167–189.

“Galicia as part of Ukraine,” in: Baran-Szołtys, Magdalena, Dvoretska, Olena, Gude, Nino, and Elisabeth Janik (eds.). Galizien in Bewegung. Wahrnehmungen – Begegnungen – Verflechtungen (Vienna: Vienna University Press, 2018), 257–275.