
Members
Galina Durinova
Strasburg, France
co-founder & administrator in the "Empire & Ethnographies" lab
PhD in Russian Philology, linguistics (Lomonosov Moscow State university), PhD candidate in Slavic literatures (Basel university), Digital learning designer (Nanterre university & Ecoles des Gobélins).
Academic interests: history of socio-political concepts, intellectual history (18-19th centuries), colonial history, sociology of literature, historical semantics; learning ecology, pedagogy for adults, EdTech, pedagogical innovation.
Thomas Van der Hallen
Paris, France
co-founder & administrator in the "Praxis" lab
PhD in philosophy and modern history (Pantheon-Sorbonne university)
Academic interests: dialectis, history of the idea of Revolution
Nikolay Koposov
Atlanta, USA
Supportive member
Professor of Russian history at Emory university
Academic interests: modern European intellectual history, history of concepts, historiography and historical memory.
Arkadiy Avdokhin
Moscow, Russia
associate member in the "Empire & Ethnographies" lab
PhD in classics (King's College London)
Academic interests: late antiquity, early Christianity, Christianization and the material culture of Byzantium
Mathilde Matras
Geneva, Switzerland
associate member in the "Empire & Ethnographies" lab
PhD candidate (University of Geneva)
Academic interests: history of Russian Empire, history of science, imperial ethnography and Russian populists
Ayur Zhanaev
Warsaw, Poland
associate member in the "Empire & Ethnographies" lab
PhD in sociology (Warsaw university)
Academic interests: historic sociology, notion of social order, regional history