Anna received her PhD in August 2025. Her academic interests include Siberian revolutionary literature, Indigenous socialist realism, and the historiography of the Russian conquest of Siberia. She writes about race and ethnicity in Soviet and post-Soviet Russia and published a two-part series on post-Soviet racism and the war in Ukraine on the Jordan Center Blog in 2023. She is involved in several Russian-speaking decolonial theory groups and is currently working on an article analyzing the peculiarities of post-Soviet decolonial thought, particularly in light of its anti-communism. The idea for this article emerged while she was writing one of the chapters of her dissertation on Sakha (Yakut) socialist realism, where she examined key differences between Leninist and Stalinist views on national self-determination and their influence on late-Soviet and post-Soviet interpretations of tsarism in Yakutia. She is currently working on turning her dissertation into a book.
