Dmitrii Bezuglov (he/him) is a PhD candidate in Slavonic studies at the University of Cambridge and an early-career researcher and interpreter. His research interests include the sociology of culture, the sociology of art, and the history of Soviet television. Dmitrii holds an MA in sociology from the Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences. As a curator and project manager, he has collaborated with various cultural institutions, both public and private. His current research project conceptualizes spectatorship in Soviet television of the 1960s, focusing on the show KVN ('Club of the Cheerful and Clever') and the gradual development of the KVN movement inspired by the show.
Isabel Bredenbröker (PhD, they/them) is an anthropologist working between academia and art. They hold a DFG Walter Benjamin Postdoctoral Fellowship based between the Centre for Anthropological Research on Museums and Heritage (CARMAH) and the Hermann von Helmholtz-Zentrum für Kulturtechnik, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and teach at the Department for Social and Cultural Anthropology, Goethe University Frankfurt. Their work focuses on material and visual culture, specifically the anthropology of death, plastics and synthetic materials, anthropology of art and museums, queer theory and intersectionality, situatedness and autoethnography, and colonialism.
Bianca Ramírez Rivera (she/her) is a historian and early-career researcher. She holds a BA in history from the National Autonomous University of México and an MA in political sociology from the José María Luis Mora Research Institute. Her work focuses on oral history, memory studies, and clandestine detention centers in Latin America. She is currently conducting her PhD at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands, with her project exploring how subjects of extremely violent experiences use their emotions and sensorial perceptions to navigate these experiences.
Katerina Suverina (PhD, she/her) is a co-founder of The February Journal. She is currently a research associate at the University of Potsdam and, starting in October 2024, will be a researcher at the Zukunftskolleg, University of Konstanz, Germany. In her research, teaching, and museum work, she is concerned with critical theory, queer studies, medical humanities, and gender studies. She has also written on trauma, contemporary Russophone cinema, and young adult literature. Since 2020, she has been leading a research project on the cultural history of HIV/AIDS in the late USSR and contemporary Russia.
Pasha Tretyakova (pseudonym, she/her) is an earlу-career researcher of anthropology with a focus on movement and embodiment. She recently completed the Erasmus Mundus Choreomundus—International Master in Dance Knowledge, Practice, and Heritage program through Université Clermont Auvergne, the Norwegian Institute of Science and Technology, the University of Szeged, and the University of Roehampton. Her current work explores the embodiments of cultural policy of the USSR, namely how artistic exchange with other countries formed political attitudes through aesthetic curation. Pasha develops immersive performances based on ethnographic research and promotes international collaboration and participation as a decolonial method.
Andrei Zavadski (PhD, he/him) is a co-founder of The February Journal. He is a research associate at the Institute of Art and Material Culture, TU Dortmund University, and an associate member of the Centre for Anthropological Research on Museums and Heritage (CARMAH), Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany. He works at intersections of memory studies, museum studies, public history, and media studies, with a focus on Eastern Europe, and, due to this interdisciplinarity, has been part of various departments, including communication studies, cultural anthropology, and history. He has written on the 2020 protests in Belarus, Gulag memory, the remembrance of the 1990s in Russia, museum participation as labor, and other topics.
Ana Panduri (pseudonym, she/her) is a co-founder of The February Journal. She is an art historian, researcher and project manager with experience of working both in private and public cultural institutions. Her main projects include a research journal in the field of contemporary art and culture, and a research laboratory on the history of HIV/AIDS in the USSR and Russia.
