Projects

@TD4P_Berlin

·2022 - 2023

Grassroots activism

Berlin-based independent working group for transformative justice approaches to dance floor pleasure activism!

Reforming European prison healthcare systems

·2022 - 2023

European Prison Litigation Network

This project aims to establish a roadmap for ensuring the integration of prison healthcare systems into public healthcare throughout European prisons

Investigating Russian war crimes in Ukrainian prisons

·2023 - 2023

European Prison Litigation Network

Trained a group of Ukrainian human rights lawyers to interview ex-detainees following the Russian occupation of Kherson in order to produce evidence to build a war crimes investigation

Criminal subculture in Eastern European and Central Asian prisons

·2017 - 2023

Council of Europe

Led a team of 15 researchers to conduct first ever sociological study of criminal subculture in Ukrainian, Moldovan, and Kyrgyz prisons to understand its impact on health

Queer sexualized drug use

·2021 - 2022

Yale University Fund for Lesbian and Gay Studies

Explore the evolving sexualized drug use practices among queer people in Berlin during COVID-19 lockdowns

Opioid addiction treatment rollout in Pakistan

·2021 - 2022

The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, Islamabad, Pakistan

Design and coordinate research on the feasibility of implementing a methadone maintenance program to treat opioid dependence in Pakistan

Transgender community care practices during COVID-19

·2020 - 2021

Yale School of Public Health

Qualitative study researching communal informal healthcare practices among trans Berliners during COVID-19 lockdowns

Burden of infectious diseases among people in post-Soviet prisons

·2012 - 2015

United Nations Office on Drugs & Crime – Central Asia

Implemented the first representative biobehavioral health survey in the prisons of Ukraine, Kyrgyzstan, and Azerbaijan surveying 1,000+ people in prison to determine drivers of the HIV epidemic

Developed a protocol for transition from prison to community addiction care for people in prison

Identity politics in contemporary Ukrainian literature

·2009 - 2011

U.S. Fulbright Fellowship

Analyzed Ukrainian and Russian political relations through the lens of surzhyk--a hybrid Ukrainian/Russian langauge--in contemporary Ukrainian texts