Since 2006 I have been working on the collaborative ARC Discovery Project "European Naturalists and the Constitution of Human Difference in Oceania: Crosscultural Encounters and the Science of Race, 1768-1888" studying materials of the Russian voyagers in Oceania and Miklouho-Maclay's heritage. My other current projects include the history of early Russian émigré communities in Australia.

Career highlights

Research Scholar, Department of South Pacific Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies, Moscow (1989-1990); PhD Scholar, ANU (1991-1996), Lecturer and tutor in Russian, MEL, ANU (1992-1996), Visiting Scholar, AIATSIS (1997-2000); Postdoctoral Fellow, Pacific and Asian History, RSPAS, ANU (2002-2004); Research Fellow, College of Asia and the Pacific (2005-2015); Research Associate, Pacific Presences, Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (2014-2018); Adjunct academic, CBAP, School of Archaeology & Anthropology, CASS (2015-2019)

• Russian voyages in Oceania
• Krusenstern expedition to Nuku-Hiva in 1804
• Marquesan collections of 1804 Krusenstern expedition in European museums
• Miklouho-Maclay's voyages in Melanesia and New Guinea
• Bibliography of Russian writings on Oceania
• History of science of race in Russia
• Russian Anzacs
• History of early Russian émigrés in Australia