I'm a PhD candidate in political theory at the Doctoral School of Political Science and a DOC fellow of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW). My dissertation explores the ways in which the central normative features of personal relationships (such as friendship) may influence and enrich our thinking about justice, equality, and personal autonomy. As part of this project, I offer a novel liberal account of civic friendship—a social and political ideal that describes a special kind of relationship between individuals who share one social world. In my other work, I seek to investigate how various personal relationships function and persevere, what kind of value they might have, and which norms should govern them. Finally, sometimes I also like to write on more applied and pressing issues related to rectificatory/remedial justice, responsibility and liability for state action, and the ethics of migration and demographic policy.
Before coming to CEU, I received a bachelor's degree in political science and a master's degree in philosophy at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow. While at HSE, I worked as a teaching fellow at the School of Politics and Governance, teaching undergraduate courses on political theory, history of political thought, and political science. I was also a research assistant at HSE's Poletayev Institute for Theoretical and Historical Studies in the Humanities, investigating how virtue ethics and virtue epistemology can be applied in historical studies of academic communities. My early interests were in continental political philosophy (Foucault, Strauss) and Early Modern philosophy & political thought (Spinoza, Shakespeare). I still consider myself a Spinozist, albeit of a wandering kind ;)
If you'd like to discuss some of the topics mentioned above or exchange drafts, feel free to get in touch!