Petr Oskolkov

Petr Oskolkov, Ph.D., is a postdoctoral researcher, adjunct lecturer, and head of the MA track “Communication, Public Advocacy, and Combating Antisemitism” at Ariel University, and an affiliated researcher at the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, Bar-Ilan University (Israel). His research focuses on far-right movements, ethnic politics, and online behavior, with a regional focus on the “post-Soviet” countries, as well as the specifics of contemporary antisemitism on Russian social media.

His most recent publications include the co-edited book Transforming the Administrative Matryoshka: The Reform of Autonomous Okrugs in the Russian Federation, 2003-2008 (ibidem/Columbia University Press, 2022) and papers published, inter alia, in Nations and Nationalism, Ethnopolitics, Europe-Asia Studies, Journal of Information Technology & Politics, and Social Media + Society.

Previously, he has worked as an assistant professor at MGIMO University and Lomonosov Moscow State University (Russia), as well as the director of the Center for the Studies of Ethnic Politics at the Institute of Europe, Russian Academy of Sciences. Oskolkov has held visiting positions at the Institute for Euro-Asian Jewish Studies (Israel), Yuan Ze University (Taiwan), and Uppsala University (Sweden).