I completed my doctoral studies at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem in the same year that I joined Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, in 2007.
My research interests lie in the anthropology of knowledge, emotions and culture in the context of immigration. At the intersection of these fields, I investigate the movement of people and translation of ideas. My empirical research is primarily focused on the Russian and Israeli contexts.
Since my first MA study of Russian immigrant students in Israel and my doctoral study on post-Soviet university, my research has consistently focused on Soviet and contemporary Russia, as well as the Russian-speaking field in Israel. I continue to examine the dynamic of identity re-grounding among Russian immigrants, both in the past and in the present. And a further interest of mine in recent years has been to examine the role of emotion in the context of global “emotionalization” and “psychologisation” of culture, public and media domains and politics. I am interested in particular in understanding cases and conditions of translation of psychological culture and language to the new cultural groups and domains.
All the issues I study form the basis of the courses I teach, which mostly examine the subjectivity as shaped by emotional, cultural and ideological systems. These include "Anthropology of Knowledge", "Emotional Regimes in Transition", "Culture and Personality", "Culture in Translation", and "Russia in Israel".