I am a feminist political philosopher working across the history of political thought, feminist theory, and critical theory to recover constructive visions of democracy and liberation. I write and speak publicly in English and Russian.

I am a Teaching Fellow and Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Politics at the New School for Social Research, where I expect to defend my dissertation in Spring 2026. I hold a Gender and Sexuality Certificate from the New School and an M.A. in Sociology from the European University at Saint Petersburg.

My research asks what it means to expand democracy into the private spheres of family and economics. My dissertation, Boundary Critique: A Political Theory of Commune from Charles Fourier to Nadezhda Krupskaya, revisits the utopian socialist theory of commune in the writings of Fourier, Marx, Lenin, Kollontai, and Krupskaya, from the French to the October Revolution.

Against contemporary interpretations of the commune as a non-political community, it shows that the historic socialist theory of commune suggests a forgotten political program for democratizing economic life. 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 family abolition demand is best understood as a democratic struggle for public childcare and dining institutions. When contemporary governments dismantle public childcare infrastructure, socialist feminist politics should seek to build it.

Alongside my academic research, I engage in political education projects on feminism, women’s history, and social movements. From 2018–2022, I ran a Telegram channel, New York Philosophy, a platform for discussing leftist feminist ideas in Russian. In 2020–2022, I created and organized Utopian Kruzhok, an online school offering courses in feminist and queer theory, democratic theory, critiques of capitalism, anticolonialism, and ecology. Both projects grew from a conviction that feminist and democratic ideas need to be discussed beyond the university.