I have graduated with a PhD in Sociology from Lancaster University in 2007 and currently work as Research Fellow at the Department of Anthropoogy and Research Institute for Cosmopolitan Cultures, the University of Manchester. 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; queer sexualities and Gulag historiography. I have published extensively on these topics, and usually work on several different projects simultaneously. For more details, please check the links on the left.