Henryk Dąbrowski's rendition of the Palace of the Soviets as the pivot of the new Moscow. From Edmund Goldzamt, Architektura Zespołów Śroódmiejskich i Problemy Dziedzictwa. Warszawa: PWN, 1956.
In 2026-2027, I am convening the following MA and BA modules at UCL:
Introduction to Social and Cultural Anturopology (first year BA module, moodule coordinator, lecturer, seminar instructior)
Interdisciplinary Area Studies: Critical Area Studies (MPhil+PhD module, SSEES, module coordinator, lecturer, seminar instructor)
Cities in Eastern Europe (BA+MA course, SSEES), module coordinator, lecturer, seminar instructor
This module is currently dormant, but it will be revived (under a new name, coming soon) in due course.
I have taught as a visiting lecturer at institutions including the Bartlett School of Architecture, the Architectural Association, the Cass School of Architecture, Cambridge University, Kharkiv School of Architecture, TU München, Manchester University, Princeton University, the New School, the Spitzer School of Architecture, the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts and the University of Warsaw.
I have supervised MA and BA dissertations at UCL SSEES, UCL Anthropology, the Bartlett and Cambridge.
I am open to inquiries from prospective PhD students looking to work on architecture, urbanism, art and material culture in the socialist and post-socialist world.
Completed PhD students:
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Kelsey Weber, "Practices of Belonging: Identity Among Polish Tatars" (full time, awarded 2023). SSEES/Anthropology, with Ruth Mandel
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Makar Tereshin, "Falling Back to Earth: Politics and Ecology of the Baikonur Cosmodrome" (full time, awarded 2025). SSEES/Anthropology, with Victor Buchli.
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Oliver Banatvala, "Martial malleability: Shopping malls and the everyday urban experience of Russia’s war against Ukraine" (full time, awarded 2025). SSEES/Bartlett, with Murray Fraser.
Current PhD students
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Kitty Brandon-James (expected 2027): art tusovki in post-Soviet Russia (SSEES/Courtauld, with Sarah Wilson)
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Daria Anosova (expected 2027): informal arts and culture institutions in post-Soviet Ukraine (SSEES, with Uilleam Blacker)
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Ada Wordsworth (expected 2027): houses of culture in the Kharkiv region during and after wartime (SSEES, with Uilleam Blacker)
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Ievgeniia Gubkina (expected 2027): architecture, heritage and international justice (SSEES, with Edward Denison and Philippe Sands)
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Armen Aramyan (expected 2028): corporate ideologies in post-Soviet advertising (SSEES/Anthropology, with Martin Holbraad)
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Vid Žnidaršič (expected 2028): the architecture of non-alignment (Bartlett/SSEES, with Jane Rendell)
