CV

My Curriculum Vitae available here.

Research interests: political behavior, migration, authoritarianism, gender studies, Russia

Education

• 2023 — present
  PhD candidate (defense expected 2027)
  Department of Political Science and Sociology, Scuola Normale Superiore
  Supervisors: Assistant Professor Lorenzo Zamponi, Senior Assistant Professor Martín Portos García

• 2026 (upcoming)
  Exchange Student
  Institute of Social Science, The University of Tokyo
  Supervisor: Associate Professor Masaaki Higashijima

• 2020-2022
  MA in Sociology
  Department of Sociology, European University St. Petersburg, Russia
  GPA: 4.6/5

• 2021
  Exchange student
  Globalisation Program, Venice International University, Italy
  GPA: 8.8/10

• 2016-2020
  BA in Sociology
  Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk, Russia
  GPA: 4.3/5.

Peer-Reviewed Publications

• ‘Great, Great Sorrow and Eternal Silence’: An Experiment in Sociological Dream Interpretation after the 24th of February 2022., with Anonymous Co-Author. In The February Journal (2023)

Non-Peer-Reviewed Publications

• Men’s Words, Women’s Work: Exploring the Reverse Gender Gap in Post-2022 Russian Emigration. In Russian Analytical Digest (2024).

Work in Progress

• “Do Citizenship Regimes Shape Political Incorporation? Evidence from Russian Post-2022 Emigrants”

• “Gendered Response to War: Explaining Gender Gap in Political Activism of Wartime Russian Emigrants, 2022-2023”, with Emil Kamalov and Ivetta Sergeeva

Data collection

• Investigator, OutRush, a panel survey of Russian political migrants, with Emil Kamalov (PI) and Ivetta Sergeeva (PI). Funded by European University Institute and U.S. Russia Foundation, 2022 — present.

  Media references (70+ references):

  • In English:
    Bloomberg, , Al Jazeera, Deutsche Welle, , , , , The Japan Times
  • In Russian:
    , , Voice of America, Meduza (1), , , , , RBC (3), Forbes Russia, , , , , , Karèn Shainyan, , , , VC, Feminist Anti-War Resistance, Klops, Vot Tak, Glagol, Grodno 24, Komsomolskaya Pravda, Agents Media,
  • In other languages:
    Jungle.World (DE), , , , Pravda (SK)

• Principal Investigator, The Science of Dreams, National Survey of Dreams of Russians During the War in Ukraine. 2022-present

• Investigator, Feminist Antiwar Resistance, with Professor Regina Smyth (PI), Indiana University, and Vlada Baranova, Veronica Kostenko, Natalia Kovylyaeva, Valeria Utkina. 2023-2024

Academic Positions

• Investigator, OutRush Project - Online survey of Russian post-2022 emigrants, with Emil Kamalov and Ivetta Sergeeva, European University Institute, Italy, 2022-present
• Research Assistant, A Comparative Study of Russian Migrant Communities following the Full-Scale Invasion of Ukraine (DemEx), with Marlene Laruelle, Zuzanna Brunarska, Paul Goode, Emil Kamalov and Ivetta Sergeeva, 2024. Funded by the National Science Foundation, 2024 - 2026
• Research Assistant, Research Project ‘Building a Commons in the Russian Diaspora’, with Professor Regina Smyth, Indiana University, Emil Kamalov, Ivetta Sergeeva, Margarita Zavadskaya, Veronica Kostenko, Michail Turchenko and Andrey Semenov. 2022-2024

Research Reports and Media Columns

• Research report, Mapping and gathering Russian artists and cultural workers in exile, 2024

• Research report, On the Move: Mobility, Integration, and Dynamics of Russian Emigration in 2022-2024. With Emil Kamalov and Ivetta Sergeeva, 2025

• Research report, One and a Half Years Later: Progress and Barriers in the Integration of Russian Emigrants. Analytical Report Based on the Third Wave of the OutRush Survey. With Emil Kamalov, Ivetta Sergeeva, Margarita Zavadskaya, and Veronica Kostenko, 2024 (in Russian)

• How do you sleep during the war?, Posle Media, 2023.

• I had a dream about Putin’. What war-time dreams tell us about reality. Republic, 2023 (in Russian)

Grants and Scholarships

• Grant, Democracy in Exile (DemEx), Lead Investigator Marlene Laruelle, Co-Principal Investigators Ivetta Sergeeva, Paul Goode, Zuzanna Brunarska, collaborators: Karolina Nugumanova, Emil Kamalov, Margarita Zavadskaya, NSF, 2024-2026

• Mapping Opportunities for Social Infrastructure of Russian Anti-War Migration in Latin America, with Vladimir Rouvinski, Emil Kamalov, and Ivetta Sergeeva, U.S. Russia Foundation, 2024

• Twice grant holder for winning of the National Sociology Olympiad, Higher School of Economics, and Yandex, 2021, 2022

• Exchange Student Grant, Scuola Normale Superiore, 2025

• PhD Grant, National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR), 2023-2027

• PhD Mobility Grant, Scuola Normale Superiore, 2023-2025

• MA Scholarship, European University at St.Petersburg, 2020-2022

• Grant from Dekabristen e.V. to develop a website for The Science of Dreams Project, 2022

Selected Conferences and Workshops

• Gendered Response to War: Analysing Patterns of Political Activism of Post-War Russian Emigrants, 2022-2023. K. Nugumanova, E.Kamalov, I. Sergeeva. Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) Convention, November, 2024. Boston
• Feminism in Action: Unveiling the Political Power of the Feminist Antiwar Resistance. K.Nugumanova. Aleksanteri Conference “Resisting Authoritarianism in Eurasia”. October 23-25, 2024. Helsinki
• Russian Diaspora: trends, risks and entrepreneurship. Russia Expert Seminar “Russia’s outlook in the new geopolitical reality”. EUI Robert Schuman centre, April 28, 2025, Florence
• Gendered Responses to War: Analyzing Differences and Underlying Factors in the Case of Russian Emigration, 2022-2023. 15th European Graduate Network Conference. April 3-5, 2024, Zurich

Skills

• Languages: Russian (native), English (C1), Italian (B1)

• Software: R, Latex, Qualtrics, Git

• Research Skills: statistical modeling, transparent and reproducible research, survey design, panel surveys, interviews