I am interested in how queer families experience transition to authoritarianism and how queer parents have and raise children in legally and politically hostile contexts. I am an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for Reproduction Research at De Montfort University.

I received my PhD from University College London in 2025. My dissertation is titled Queer Russian Parents: Building Support Networks, Navigating Risks, “Doing Family”, and Crossing Borders. It received the OVD-info prize for best PhD Research on Repression, Surveillance and Censorship in Contemporary Russia. My findings were published in Sexualities in 2026.

After the PhD, I worked as a Research Associate at the University of Leeds on the AHRC-funded project Transitions: Examining Changing Regimes of Sexuality in Post-Soviet Muslim Republics.