Ph.D. in Sociology, University of Oregon
June 2019 - June 2024
Dissertation title: In a Dark, Dark Wood: Morality, Politics and Ecological Inaction in Russian Forests”.
Master of Sciences, University of Oregon
September 2016 - June 2019
Majored in Environment and Culture, with an emphasis on Russia.
Specialist of Cultural Studies, St. Petersburg State University
September 2010 - June 2015
Majored in Chinese Culture.
Certificate in Mandarin, Tianjin Foreign Studies University 天津外国语大学
August 2013 - July 2014
Chinese Government Scholarship funded one-year certificate program in Mandarin.
Selected Professional Training & Certifications
Purdue’s Summer Institute on Longitudinal Data Analysis Institute
July 2025
Purdue's MCAP Summer Institute is an intensive one-week longitudinal data analysis course.
ICPSR Summer Program
June - July 2025
As a part of this four-week research methods training I took the following courses: Evaluating Model Robustness; Multilevel Models; Measurement, Scaling, and Dimensionality Analysis; Bayesian Modeling for the Social Sciences I.
ICPSR Summer Program
July - August 2022
As a part of this intensive four-week research methods training I took three courses: Data Science and Text Analysis; Statistics and Data Analysis II: The Basics of Regression; Regression Analysis II: Linear Models.
Michigan State University
Summer 2021
The certificate ten-week course “Understanding Forest Carbon Management” allowed me to gain important knowledge on forest management and carbon sequestration.
Russian Studies Workshop, University of Indiana
August 2018
This four-day workshop introduced me to a variety of research methods used by the Russian studies community and allowed me to present my own work and participate in discussions of other researchers' ongoing projects.
Northeast Asian Economic Forum’s Young Leaders Program, Hong Kong
August 2017
This two-week intensive training from The Northeast Asia Economic Forum helped me to improve my research, work on collaborative projects, network, and build dialogue with graduate students from the US, Russia, China, and Northeast Asian countries, as well as the policymakers and professors from many prestigious universities.
Cheng Gong University 成功大学, Taiwan
June 2011 - September 2011
Certificate in Chinese Language, Intensive Summer language training in Mandarin. GPA: 88/100 (3.52/4.0)