I am Assistant Professor of modern Japanese History at New York University. My book Revolution Goes East: Imperial Japan and Soviet Communism was published by Cornell University Press in 2020. My current research project is titled “’Small People’ on the Borders: Buriat-Mongols, Imperial Japan and the Soviet Union.” I focus on colonial policies of the Soviet and Japanese regimes in the Mongolian territories (Buriatia, Outer and Inner Mongolia) between 1910s and 1940s.
2017– present, Assistant Professor of History, New York University
2015–2017, Research Fellow, Ludwig Maximillian University in Munich
2015 Ph.D. in History, University of California at Berkeley
2006 M.A. in Interdisciplinary Cultural Studies, University of Tokyo
2001 Diploma/Degree with Honors in Philosophy, Moscow State University
