I am an anthropologist with expertise on storytelling, memory, and violence.

My research is grounded in long-term ethnographic fieldwork in Lviv and western Ukraine, where I explore the role of storytelling, place, material traces, images, and visual media in how people remember, experience, and make sense of painful histories, political violence, and conflict. Through this work, I examine the relationships between memory, everyday life, and storytelling, asking how stories are remembered, shared, and transformed across generations, and how they shape the ways people live with the legacies of violence.

Alongside my ethnographic research in Ukraine, I investigate storytelling across digital and visual media, exploring how storytelling moves across social media, visual media, and multimodal forms of communication, and how these different forms shape the ways stories are told, circulated, and experienced. My work on digital anthropology includes collaborative research on TikTok as a site for ethnographic inquiry, public anthropology, and the documentation of contemporary crises. Across these different contexts, I am interested in how storytelling moves between conversation, place, images, and digital media, and in what these movements reveal about memory, identity, and the lived experience of violence, conflict and upheaval.

Methodologically, my research combines long-term ethnographic fieldwork with digital, visual, and multimodal approaches. I am particularly interested in collaborative and creative forms of ethnographic research, and in how visual and digital media can deepen anthropological inquiry while opening up new ways of communicating anthropological knowledge within and beyond the academy.

At UCL, I am the programme lead for the MSc Digital Anthropology. I teach across undergraduate and postgraduate programmes on topics including memory, landscape, visual cultures, and digital anthropology. I supervise undergraduate, master’s and doctoral research, and am committed to creating collaborative learning environments that encourage methodological experimentation while remaining grounded in careful and rigorous ethnographic fieldwork and research.