Teaching

The Ohio State University (2025–2026)

• Civil War and Reconstruction: Global Perspectives (BA level)

  Explored the U.S. Civil War and Reconstruction as both a national crisis and a global event, with attention to slavery, emancipation, citizenship, federal power, and the international circulation of ideas about democracy, nationalism, and revolution. The course emphasized research writing, primary-source analysis, and the contested memory of the Civil War era.

• Russian-American Relations (taught in English and Russian) (BA and MA level)

  Surveyed Russian-American relations from the eighteenth century to the present through diplomatic, cultural, and ideological frameworks. Special attention was given to mutual perceptions, modernization, empire, the Cold War, and the role of the "Other" in shaping national identity.

• Uses and Misuses of History: History, Memory, and Politics in the Contemporary World (BA level)

  Examined how societies mobilize the past in politics, identity formation, and public culture. Topics included historical memory, trauma, monuments, museums, school curricula, memory laws, and comparative case studies with particular attention to Russia and the United States.

Wellesley College (2024–2025)

• How Distant Friends Became Intimate Enemies: Russian-American Relations in Past and Present (BA level)

  Explored Russian-American relations as a history of alternating friendship and enmity, moving beyond traditional diplomacy to examine political imagination, technological exchange, ideological rivalry, and domestic uses of the other country's image. The course traced the relationship from early contacts and wartime cooperation to Cold War confrontation and post-Cold War tensions.

Bowdoin College (2024)

• Frenemies: History of Russian-American Relations (BA level)

  Introduced students to the long history of Russian-American encounters from the eighteenth century to the present, with particular emphasis on slavery and serfdom, continental expansion, Russian emigration, technological transfers, military alliances, and recurring cycles of admiration and hostility.

European University at St. Petersburg (2015–2024)

• Courses on Historical Memory, U.S. History, and Russian-American Relations (MA level)

  Taught graduate seminars on U.S. history, Russian-American relations, and the politics of historical memory. Courses combined diplomatic history, constructivist approaches to mutual images, technological transfer, memory politics, and student research projects based on specific historical cases.

Smolny faculty of St. Petersburg State University (2015)

• History and Memory (BA level)

  Examined how historical narratives are formed, transmitted, contested, and politicized in modern societies. The course introduced students to major approaches in memory studies and connected theoretical debates to public history, monuments, commemorations, and national identity.

Advised students' MA and Kandidatskaya (PhD-equivalent) dissertations.