Her fields of research have included late medieval Sephardi Jews and Conversos, late Soviet and post-Soviet Jewry, Judaism in contemporary Russia, an intersection of Jewish and queer identities and topoi in Soviet and post-Soviet culture. She is the author of From Scepter of Judah to Buffon’s Club: Court Jews in Medieval Spain (in Russian; 2008) and has a new book on Conversos and Spanish inquisition in print. Her recent publications include the book Wissenschaft des Judentums Two: Renaissance in Portraits (in Russian; 2015) on the revival of Jewish studies in late Soviet and post-Soviet Russia and the edited volume Judaism after the USSR: Old and New, Religious and National. She is currently a scholar-in-residence at the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute at Brandeis University where she’s doing research on baalot teshuva (female returnees to Judaism) in Moscow Lubavitcher community.