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PAST ACADEMIC POSITIONS

Lecturer, Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin–Madison (January 2011–December 2021)
(affiliated with the Center for Jewish Studies and Center for Russia, East Europe, and Central Asia)

Visiting Fellow, Aleksanteri Institute – Finnish Centre for Russian and Eastern European Studies, University of Helsinki (mid-May–mid-July 2017)

Fellow, Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg (Institute for Advanced Study), Delmenhorst, Germany (April–June 2015)

Visiting Scholar, Forschungsstelle Osteuropa–FSO (Research Centre for East European Studies), University of Bremen, Germany (February–June 2015)

EDUCATION

PhD, Sociology, New School for Social Research

MA, Society and Politics, University of Lancaster, UK (at Central European University, Prague, Czech Republic)

BA/MA, Sociology, Moscow State University (Moscow, Russia)

Fields of Specialization: political sociology, cultural sociology, comparative-historical sociology, social theory

Research and Teaching Interests: political and economic liberalizations; democracy and capitalism; political culture and civil society; social movements; political protest and culture; class, culture, and consumption; sociological theory; socialist and postsocialist history, politics, and culture in Europe and Eurasia

PROFESSIONAL AWARDS
  • Nominated for the 2021 University of Wisconsin System Alliant Energy James R. Underkofler Excellence Teaching Award
  • Short list, Best Article Prize for 2015, Social Movement Studies journal
  • Winner, First Article Prize in Social Sciences, Council for European Studies, 2012
  • Honorable mention, Edward Shils–James Coleman Memorial Award for Best Student Paper, Theory Section, American Sociological Association, 2011
  • Winner, Suzanne Langer Prize for Best Student Paper, Section on the Sociology of Culture, American Sociological Association, 2009
  • Runner-up, Graduate Student Essay Contest, Mid-Atlantic Slavic Conference, 2008
  • Winner, Reinhard Bendix Best Student Paper Award, Section on Comparative and Historical Sociology, American Sociological Association, 2007
  • New School Eberstadt Dissertation Fellowship, Academic Year 2004–2005
  • New Social Science Training Fellowship, Transregional Center for Democratic Studies, New School for Social Research, Fall 1999
PUBLICATIONS (* peer-reviewed)

“A Closed Society? Repression and Countermovement in Russia,” Trajectories: Newsletter of the ASA Comparative and Historical Sociology Section vol. 29, no. 1 (2017): 20–24

*“This Is What Democracy Sounds Like: Protest Performances of the Citizenship Movement in Wisconsin and Beyond,” Social Movement Studies vol. 14, no. 6 (2015): 635–650

Review of Rethinking Class in Russia edited by Suvi Salmenniemi, Laboratorium: Russian Review of Social Research vol. 6, no. 1 (2014): 130–132

“A Middle Class without Capitalism? Socialist Ideology and Post-Collectivist Discourse in the Late-Soviet Era,” in Soviet Society in the Era of Late Socialism, 1964–1985, ed. Neringa Klumbyte and Gulnaz Sharafutdinova Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2012), 43–66

*“The Soviet Communist Party and the Other Spirit of Capitalism,” Sociological Theory vol. 28, no. 4 (2010): 377–401

Review of From Elections to Democracy: Building Accountable Government in Hungary and Poland by Susan Rose-Ackerman, Constellations vol. 15, no. 4 (2008): 592–596

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

“Protest Movements and the Culture of Democratic Liberty: The Example of Street Mobilization in Russia, 2011–2012,” American Sociological Association, August 2017; Seventh Annual Young Scholars Conference, Center for the Study of Social Movements, University of Notre Dame, IN, May 2016

“Tocqueville on the Barricades: Searching for the Culture of Democratic Liberty at Russian Protests,” Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, November 2015; 2015 Collective Behavior and Social Movements Workshop, August 2015; American Sociological Association, August 2013

“This Is What Democracy Sounds Like: Protest Performances of the Citizenship Movement in Wisconsin and Beyond,” 2015 Collective Behavior and Social Movements Workshop, August 2015; Social Science History Association, November 2014

“The Politics of Smallest Things: How the ‘Lazy, Cowardly, and Selfish’ Changed the Soviet Union,” Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, November 2016; Research Center for East European Studies (University of Bremen, Germany), May 2011; Center for Contemporary History (Potsdam, Germany), April 2011; Midwest Sociological Society, April 2010

“Making Its Own Gravediggers: Post-Collectivist Values and the End of Socialism,” American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, November 2008

“Professor Pipe-Fitter: The Old New Soviet Man,” Mid-Atlantic Slavic Conference, March 2008

“Middle Class without Capitalism? Socialist Ideology and Post-Collectivist Discourse in Late Soviet Union,” Havighurst Center for Russian and Post-Soviet Studies at Miami University, OH, October 2007; American Sociological Association, August 2007

“Socialist Consumer Society and a New Soviet Man—Worlds Apart? Consumption Discourse in the Soviet Union,” Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association, May 2006; Association for the Study of Nationalities, March 2006

“Revenge of the Superstructure: Did Socialist Ideology Create a Middle Class in the Soviet Union?” Mid-Atlantic Slavic Conference, April 2006

“Constitution Writing Process in Russia and Brazil: The Role of the State in Shaping Federal Systems,” Transregional Center for Democratic Studies, New School for Social Research, December 1999

“Russia’s Ad Hoc Asymmetric Federalism: Pre-Modern, Irrational, and Disintegrating,” Association for the Study of Nationalities, April 1999

TEACHING

Instructor of Record

“Social Movements,” University of Wisconsin–Madison, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Fall 2016 (advanced-undergraduate and graduate level)

“Classical Sociological Theory,” University of Wisconsin–Madison, Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2019, Fall 2018, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Spring 2011 (undergraduate and non-sociology graduate level)

“China in Transition,” University of Wisconsin–Madison, Spring 2019 (undergraduate directed study)

“The Sociological Enterprise,” University of Wisconsin–Madison, Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2016 (elementary-undergraduate level)

“The Soviet Jewish Experience,” University of Wisconsin–Madison, Fall 2018, Fall 2017 (intermediate-undergraduate level; Department of Sociology and Center for Jewish Studies)

“Thinking about Society,” Eugene Lang College, Fall 2001 (undergraduate level)

Teaching Assistant

“Social Thought I: Social Change,” New School for Social Research, Fall 2007, Fall 2006

“World Cultures: Russia between East and West,” New York University, Spring 2007, Spring 2006

“World Cultures: Russia since 1917,” New York University, Spring 2004, Spring 2003, Spring 2002

PhD Writing Coach

The Writers’ Exchange, Antioch University, March 2021–present

SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION

Coeditor, Laboratorium: Russian Review of Social Research, May 2011–present

Editorial Board member, Sociological Theory, 2018–2020

Presider, refereed roundtable “Tactics and Repertoires,” Section on Collective Behavior and Social Movements, American Sociological Association, August 2017

Discussant, panel on “Zionism between East and West,” one-day symposium of scholars from Tel Aviv University and University of Wisconsin–Madison, Tel Aviv, Israel, January 2017

Application evaluator, European Institutes for Advanced Study (EURIAS) Fellowship Programme, Fall 2015, Fall 2016

Presenter, webinar “Getting Published in Slavic and Eurasian Studies: Dos and Don’ts of Academic Journal Publishing,” Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, May 2016

Organizer and presenter, roundtable “Getting Published in Slavic and Eurasian Studies 1: Dos and Don’ts of Academic Journal Publishing,” Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, Philadelphia, PA, November 2015

Co-organizer, panel on “Paradoxes and Meanings of Work and Leisure in Brezhnev’s Soviet Union,” Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, Washington, DC, November 2011

Organizer, panel on “State and Individual under Brezhnev: The Cultural Contradictions of Late Socialism and Their Consequences,” American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Philadelphia, PA, November 2008

Discussant, panel on “Center-Periphery Relations in Putin’s Russia,” Association for the Study of Nationalities, New York, NY, April 2008

Occasional discussant, “Scapes and Grapes” Student Work-in-Progress Workshop, Department of Sociology, New School for Social Research, 2007–2009

Manuscript reviewer for Sociological Theory, Mobilization, Social Forces, Political Power and Social Theory, Theory and Society, Post-Soviet Affairs

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