Projects

@TD4P_Berlin

·2022 - 2023

Grassroots activism

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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