As well as being an Assistant Professor (UH1) in the Department of Sociology at the University of Amsterdam (UvA), Olga Sezneva serves as a Professor of Urban Studies at European University at St. Petersburg (Russia). She co-directs Master Program in Advanced Architecture and Urban Design ‘Building the City Now’ accredited by Barcelona PolyTECH and located in St. Petersburg.  A graduate of the Ph.D. Program in Sociology at New York University, she also was a Harper Fellow at the University of Chicago in 2005 to 2009.

Olga’s research developed along two main interests: the intersection between built environment and culture, and the digital media markets, with a specific focus on cultures of circulation. Her work appeared in a number of edited volumes and international peer-review journals. 

In 2013, a group of international scholars, including Olga herself and led by Professor Mario Biagiogli (PI, UC-Davis), was awarded the prestigious Mega-grant from Russian Federation Government (grant No.14.U04.31.0001) to study Russian computer scientists at home and abroad.

She is currently on the research leave conducting her work in Russia.

Main publications

• 2014-‘Pirate Cosmopolitics and the Transnational Consciousness of the Entertainment Industry,’ Ethnic and Racial Studies, Special Issue "Books, Bodies, and Bronzes: comparing sites of global citizenship creation" edited by Peggy Levitt. Vol. 37, No. 12: 2226-2242
• 2014 -‘Has Capitalism Gone Virtual?: Content Containment and the Obsolescence of the Commodity,’ with Sebastien Chauvin. Critical Historical Studies, Vol. 1, Issue 1: 125-150
• 2013- ‘On Moral Substance and Visual Obscurity in Policy and Practice of State Expansion,’ Environment and Planning D: Society & Space 31(4): 611-627
• 2013 -‘Rethinking Copyright Through the Copy in Russia,’ Journal of Cultural Economy, on-line first 18 March: 1-16.
• 2012 -‘The pirates of Nevskii Prospekt: Intellectual property, piracy and institutional diffusion in Russia,’ Poetics: Journal of Empirical Research on Culture, the Media and the Arts Volume 40(2): 150-166.
• 2012- ‘The Architecture of Descent: Historical Reconstructions and Politics of Belonging in Kaliningrad, the former Königsberg’. Journal of Urban History 39 (4): 767-787

Curriculum Vitae

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• 2007-2009-SSRC Comparative Studies of Media Piracy.  Russia Project Co-Director. Amount: $1.4 million. Granting institutions: Ford Foundation and IDRC. 

• 2007-Ford Foundation, travel grant to conference Access 2 Knowledge -2. Yale University. 

• 2005-Harper & Schmidt Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Society of Fellows, University of Chicago. 

• 2003-2004-James Arthur Dissertation Fellowship for Studies of Time, New York University 

• 2001-2002-The Cold War as a Global Conflict, Dissertation Fellowship, International Center For Advanced Studies, New York University. 

• 2001-National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant SES - 0221287. 

• 2000-Young Researchers' Award, Foundation for Urban and Regional Studies, Ltd., London. 
• 1999-Ford Gender/Area StudiesSummer Research Grant. 
• 1998-NYU Alumna ClubAward for Women of Achievement. 
• 1996-International Educational Fellowship, American Association of University Women.
• 1996-Shane Media Fellowship, Educational Broadcasting Association.

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