Anastasiya HALAUNIOVA
BIOGRAPHIE
Anastasiya Halauniova is an urban sociologist from Belarus studying radical disturbances that cities and their residents undergo, from state annexation and war to environmental crises. Her work is set in places that we usually call postsocialist, where she follows city residents' restless attempts to maintain and upgrade built environments that are either symbolically or materially degrading. Currently, she is exploring the central role of thawing permafrost in the Arctic urban life. She is conducting a historical and an ethnographic study of Russian and Norwegian settlements on Svalbard to tell the story of places that can no longer rely on the presence of stable and frozen Arctic grounds.
Before joining Sciences Po, she earned her doctorate in sociology at the University of Amsterdam, where she worked on understanding the role of aesthetics in two post-socialist, post-annexation, and post-war Eastern European cities. Before that, she earned her master degree at the European University in St. Petersburg, where she began to understand the meanings of doing feminist sociology.
research
2023 - 2026
Postdoctoral Research Fellowship “Unruly Ground: Rebuilding the Arctic Urban in the Age of Climate Crisis” (Bruno Latour Fund )
2016 - 2022
“Brick is Warmer than Concrete: Aesthetic Anxiety and the Making of Architecture in Eastern European Cities” (University of Amsterdam)
PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS
2022-23
Postdoctoral Researcher, Centre for Sociological Research, KU Leuven
2021
Lecturer, Leiden University, Centre for the Arts in Society
2020
Visiting Scholar (under the supervision of prof. Virág Molnár), New School for Social Research (New York), Department of Sociology
2019
Visiting Scholar (under the supervision of prof. Genevieve Zubrzycki), University of Michigan, CREES Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia
2016-21
Research Affiliate, University of Amsterdam, Center for Urban Studies
2014-16
Research Affiliate, European University at St. Petersburg, Center for Science and Technology Studies
PUBLICATIONS
Halauniova, A. (2022) Good and Bad Concrete. Fugitive Modern and the Aesthetics of Renovation in Poland. CITY, 26 (1), 28-50.
Halauniova, A. (2021). Getting the Right Shade of Ochre: Valuation of a Building’s Historicity. Space and Culture, 24(3), 421–436;
Sezneva, O., & Halauniova, A. (2021). Ugly and uglier: defining value and politics in architecture. Journal of Urban Design, 26(5), 575–590.
Birdsall, C., Halauniova, A., & van de Kamp, L. (2021). Sensing Urban Values: Reassessing Urban Cultures and Histories Amidst Redevelopment Agendas. Space and Culture, 24(3), 348–358.
Halauniova, A. (2021) Methodology of Cracks and Methodological Cracks, in New Times, New Fields. St. Petersburg: Aleteja.
FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS & HONORS
Fellowships
2019 Center for Urban History Research Fellowship in Lviv, Ukraine
2019 Council for European Studies-Herder Fellowship at Herder Institute in Marburg,
Germany
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Self-Designed Courses
2021
Advanced Qualitative Methods for Urban Studies, University of Leiden
2020
Feminist Methods, University of Amsterdam
2019
Politics and Poetics of Urban Design, University of Amsterdam
Teaching Assistance
2018
Sociological Theory, University of Amsterdam
Education
2016 – 2022 University of Amsterdam
Ph.D. in Sociology (September 8, 2022)
Thesis Title: “Brick Is Warmer than Concrete: Aesthetic Anxiety and the Making of Architecture in Eastern European Cities”
Supervisors: Prof. Giselinde Kuipers, Dr. Olga Sezneva
2014 – 2016 European University at St. Petersburg
M.A. in Sociology, cum laude
2010 – 2014 St. Petersburg State University
B.A. in Sociology, cum laude
