Selected Academic Appointments
Co-Director, Modernity Seminar
Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture, University of Virginia (2025– )
Full Professor, Higher School of Economics, Moscow (2021– )
Visiting Professor, Yale University (2023–2025)
Acting Associate Director, Center for Cultural Sociology (Spring 2025)
Visiting Professor, University of Trento (2022–2023)
Founding Director, Moscow Centre for Cultural Sociology (2021–2023)
Leadership & Scholarly Service
Principal Investigator of the largest Russian longitudinal study of educational trajectories (2012–2023).
Founder and Director of multiple research centers and collaborative research initiatives; Principal Investigator of major research projects (2006–2023).
Editor of Russian translations of key texts in the Durkheimian tradition and cultural sociology, including the first Russian translation of The Elementary Forms of Religious Life.
Associate Editor, American Journal of Cultural Sociology (since 2019).
Member of editorial boards including Russian Sociological Review and Sociální studia / Social Studies. Member of the American Sociological Association (Theory and Culture Sections) and the International Sociological Association; Editor of Theory, newsletter of ISA RC16 Sociological Theory (2018–2022).
Impact
Google Scholar: 2,939 citations; h-index 25; i10-index 42 (as of February 14, 2026).
Education
PhD in Sociology, Higher School of Economics, Moscow (2012)
MA in Sociology, Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences / University of Manchester (2003)
MSc in Physics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Faculty of Physics (2000)
Contact
Email: ptf7rq@virginia.edu
Watson Manor
3 University Circle, office 213
Charlottesville, VA 22903
ORCID: 0000-0002-7334-5953
Google Scholar: Profile
Web of Science ResearcherID: P-8989-2019
Scopus AuthorID: 36135586700