Anastasia started her PhD project in socio-cultural anthropology in 2015, after obtaining her bachelor degree in regional studies at the Ural State University in Russia and her master’s degree in European studies at the Université de Provence in France. 

Her cultural areas are Western countries, in particular Russian and French mainstream cultures.  Her PhD dissertation focuses on school understanding of human diversity and some other issues typically addressed by anthropologists (interactions between human communities and their environments, origins of humans). 

Her research interests include socio-cultural anthropology, secondary education and history of ideas.