I have graduated with a PhD in Sociology from Lancaster University in 2007 and currently work as Research Fellow at the Research Institute for Cosmopolitan Cultures, Manchester University. I previously worked as lecturer in Internet and Communication Studies at Liverpool John Moores University, UK. My research interests include: migration and diaspora; nationalism, violence, coloniality and war; gender and sexuality, queer diaspora and queer racisms; Israel/Palestine, gender; Soviet Union and post-Soviet émigré  diaspora; digital culture and communication technologies; affective politics; Gulag historiography. For more details on my research projects, publications and teaching, please check the links on the left.