I am a cultural and historical sociologist and curator. Using ethnographic, archival, and interview data, I ask how and when particular visions of history are deployed and contested in the public sphere in Kyrgyzstan, Russia, and the United States. Questions that arise in my research are at the core of some of our most difficult public questions: How do we represent our history in our shared public spaces? What do representations from the past tell us about who we are today?

I have published my findings in academic and general interest journals, and engage in public scholarship through curatorial and archival projects.