I am a political theorist and historian of political thought with a particular interest in the relationships between democracy and socialism from the nineteenth century to the present.

I received a Ph.D. in Politics, along with a Gender and Sexualities Studies Certificate, from the New School for Social Research in 2026 and an M.A. in Sociology from the European University at Saint Petersburg in 2015.

My dissertation, Boundary Critique: A Political Theory of Commune, focused on the democratic, socialist, and communist conception of the commune. Through archival research on legislative debates, policy drafts, speeches, and demands by figures such as Guizot, Considerant, Bakunin, Marx, Lenin, Krupskaya, and Kollontai, it traced the evolution of the term commune in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century political thought. The study explained how the idea of commune developed its utopian political meaning as a democratic form of governance and a critical alternative to the modern capitalist state, from the French to the October Revolutions. Read more.

My work has appeared in academic journals including Sociology of Power, Journal of Social Policy Studies, Gender Studies, Logos, and in public outlets including Jacobin, lenta.ru, Republic, and Moscow Art Magazine. My most recent paper, From Communes to Communalization: Soviet Feminist Theory of Family Abolition, argues that the feminist and socialist family abolition demand is best understood as a democratic demand for public childcare and dining infrastructure.

Alongside my research, I engage in political education projects that explore the histories of politics, philosophy, and feminism. From 2018–2022, I ran a Telegram channel, New York Philosophy, a platform for discussing political theory in Russian. In 2020–2022, I created and organized Utopian Kruzhok, an online school offering courses in political theory, feminist and queer theory, history, and sociology. Both projects grew from the conviction that politics needs to be discussed beyond the university.