I am a Ph.D. Candidate in Political Science at McGill University. I specialize in comparative politics and international relations.
My research analyzes how the Russian regime adapts international radical right rhetoric to build domestic support without destabilizing itself. Drawing on computational text analysis of original datasets from diverse regime-affiliated media, I explain why regime narratives diverge between foreign and home contexts on issues such as anti-Black and anti-Central Asian attitudes. My work is grounded in nationalism studies and addresses ethnic nationalism, the radical right, its relationship with the center-right, and the politics of race in the post-communist region.
Before joining McGill and pursuing political science, I lectured on Western European and American cultural history and literature at Lomonosov Moscow State University. My prior work investigated American and British racial theories during the interwar period. I hold a degree in Western European Studies, with a focus on the UK and Germany.
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