Sphere of scientific interests:
Anthropology of the museum, methods of field research, semiotics of things, ritual practices of the Russian people, material research, representations of ethnographic knowledge, perspectivism in anthropology.
Author of more than 100 publications and more than 30 ethnographic exhibitions.
Teaching:
St. Petersburg State University, Smolny Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences;
St. Petersburg State Conservatory named after N.A. Rimsky-Korsakov;
Bolshoi Drama Theater named after G. A. Tovstonogov.