Pavel Vasilyev Email & Phone Number

I am currently an Associate Professor at the Department of History, HSE University St. Petersburg and the Head of the History of Russian Psychiatry Research Study Group. I defended my doctoral dissertation on drug abuse and drug policy in early ‎Soviet Russia at the St. Petersburg Institute of History of the Russian ‎Academy of Sciences in October 2013. Between 2014 and 2019, I was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for the History of Emotions ‎in Berlin and at the Polonsky Academy for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences in Jerusalem.My research explores the social and cultural history of late Imperial, Soviet, and post-Soviet Russia with a ‎particular focus on the developments in medicine, crime, and law. Building on the history of ‎emotions and the history of the self, my work integrates contemporary anthropological and ‎historical theories of affect, emotion, and subjectivity. Focusing in particular on the city of St. ‎Petersburg/Petrograd/Leningrad, this research asks how new forms of expertise and ‎governance, specifically scientific medicine, public health, criminology, and the modern penal ‎system, transformed both the urban space and the lives of ordinary people in a major Russian ‎city between the late nineteenth century and the present.‎‎

Listed skills include Archival Research, Academic Writing, Grant Writing, and Social Networking.