I am a political philosopher working across the history of political thought, feminist theory, and critical social theory with a focus on the relationship between democracy and capitalism. I write and speak in English and Russian.

I am a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Politics at the New School for Social Research. I hold a Gender and Sexuality Studies Certificate from the New School and an M.A. in Sociology from the European University at Saint Petersburg.

My dissertation, Boundary Critique: A Political Theory of Commune, traces the history of the democratic conception of commune from the French to the October Revolutions. Through archival research of public speeches, manifestos, policy drafts, and legislative debates of Considerant, Proudhon, Marx, Krupskaya, Kollontai, and Lenin, I demonstrate that since the 1830–1840s, the term commune has carried the democratic critique of the modern ideological boundaries between political, economic, and familial spheres. 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 popular movement for public childcare and dining infrastructure.

Alongside my research, I engage in education projects on the histories of feminist movements, politics, and philosophy. From 2018–2022, I ran a Telegram channel, New York Philosophy, a platform for discussing feminist 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 a conviction that political ideas need to be discussed beyond the university.