team

We are sociologists, psychologists, linguists, economists, data analysts, pedagogy and communication specialists. The publications of the team members can be found below.

Part of our team is still located in Russia, so some faces will remain hidden for now.

There are 10 people in the permanent team, we are currently working on a volunteer basis and are looking for funding. If you want to participate in one of the projects, write to us at contact@tharesearch.center and let's get acquainted.

Mariia Vasilevskaya

Founder of the project, social scientist with a mathematical background.

Studied state violence and, in pre-war Russia, practices of digital civil society participation. She developed open-source code for researchers working with administrative data. Managed the data analysis department and directed mixed-methods research at the Center for Advanced Governance. Now she is teaching a course on computational methods in social research at The Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences.

Daria Rud

Works in applied sociology using mixed methods.

Co-authored a study of vulnerable groups in the corona crisis. She analysed the effects of civil servants moving to the Moscow City office, from which practical recommendations emerged. She dedicated her Master's thesis to work with urban heritage (workers' housing) in a post-communist environment.

Danila Valko

Data analyst, researcher. Engaged in automated data collection, preparation and analysis, development of quantitative research designs.

Participated in the preparation and publication of several large sets of administrative data. Examples: "International Agreements of Russia" , "Address Classifier" .

Maria Bunina

Engaged in social research and policymaking

Studied oncology, domestic violence, and disabilities until 2022, and switched to state violence, civil society, war trauma, and peacebuilding processes after the full invasion.

Anna

Studies anthropology and works in social projects at the same time.

She worked in educational initiatives for children with different migration and language backgrounds, and did educational projects on the topic of ethnocultural diversity. She gradually moved on to the anthropology of migration and the study of diasporas.

Anna Kalinina

Researcher, studies issues of organization and organizational practices in both online and offline environments.

Her dissertation focuses on overt and covert forms of resistance and self-organization processes.

Vlada Baranova

Sociolinguist, field linguist, researcher of urban linguistic diversity and migration, language activist.

She studies the Kalmyk and Chuvash languages, and has written about the Mariupol Greeks , Urums and Rumei, in Eastern Ukraine, and about language activism in Russia.

Elena

Creates methodological materials and participates in work on research products.

Psychologist. Worked in HR, helped people live in harmony with themselves and others. Main areas of interest: children, school education, the future generation of Russia and their opportunities.

Yakov Lurye

Social anthropologist and applied researcher.

He is writing a PhD at the University of Amsterdam about roadside trade in Russia. He is engaged in research of Russian society after February 24, has collaborated with PS Lab, OutRush and CISR Berlin. He has a sincere attitude towards classical academia and does not romanticize the format of "lone anthropologist". He is passionate about joint applied research and texts in an interesting and understandable language. He loves working with NGOs, activists, artists, urbanists.

Julia Kuzevanova

She is involved in the management and public communications of the center, and helps to devise and implement products based on research results.

Communications specialist. Set up marketing and created infoproducts for psyhologists and scientists, worked on educational technologies.

Anastasia Emelyanova

Nastya worked with us - she was engaged in mathematical linguistics and data analysis, organized and managed, hurried, joked, supported.

Thank you for everything. We will try not to let you down.