I am a linguist with expertise in sociolinguistics, cognitive linguistics, the sociology of language, linguistic anthropology and mixed methods. I completed my PhD at LMU Munich in May 2023, with the dissertationLanguage attitudes and social identity. A study on Russian-speaking immigrant communities in Israel and Germany
Up to the conclusion of my PhD, I have been working on sociolinguistic issues in Russian, Hebrew, Tatar, German and Ukrainian, among others.
Current project:
The impact of environmental factors on heritage language vitality
Research interests
- language vitality, maintenance and shift
- heritage languages
- multilingualism
- minority language rights
- language in space, ecolinguistics
- language policy
- language variation and change
- mixed methods
- fieldwork methods
Publications
Academic CV
Last updated: July 2026
10 / 2026 – 09 / 2028: Postdoctoral fellow, University of Chicago, Department of Linguistics; project “Environmental drivers of language shift”, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (grant no. 242261)
12 / 2025 – 03 / 2026: Research visit, University of Chicago, Department of Linguistics; Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting; UCLA Heritage Language Research Center Conference
04 – 09 / 2025: PI of research project on Heritage language ecologies, financed through Career Grant by GRC UZH (14,000 CHF). Research assistant: Jolina Saliquni
12 / 2024 – 2 / 2025: Visiting postdoctoral fellow, University of Chicago, Department of Linguistics (SNSF Scientific Exchanges, 10,500 CHF)
6 / 2023 – present: Postdoctoral fellow, University of Zurich, Slavic Department,
3–5 / 2023: Research assistant, University of Zurich, Slavic Department,
5 / 2023: PhD thesis defense
1 / 2023: Submission of PhD thesis Language Attitudes and Social Identity. A Study on Russian-Speaking Immigrant Communities in Israel and Germany
9-12 / 2021 Visiting research stay at UC Berkeley, Institute for the Study of Societal Issues (10,300 EUR)
10 / 2019-2 / 2020 Research exchange, Tel Aviv University; fieldwork
4 / 2019-5 / 2023 PhD, Graduate School Language and Literature – Class of Language, LMU Munich; financed through a PhD scholarship by Hanns Seidel Foundation, Germany (74,400 EUR)
12 / 2018 – 3 / 2019 Fieldwork in Germany
11 / 2018 Pilot study and fieldwork in Israel
9 / 2017 MA thesis fieldwork in Tatarstan
10 / 2016-9 / 2018 MA “Cultural and Cognitive Linguistics”, LMU Munich
2-6 / 2016 Overseas scholarship exchange at Moscow State University, Historical Faculty and Philological Faculty
9 / 2014-2 / 2015 Erasmus scholarship exchange at LMU Munich, Institute for German as a Foreign Language
9 / 2013-10 / 2016 BA “European Languages and Cultures”, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia