Anastasia joined the University of Cambridge in 2022 as a Research Associate in the Faculty of Divinity and Cambridge Interfaith Programme.
Prior to Cambridge, Anastasia completed a postdoc at the University of Luxembourg. She holds a PhD in Educational Sciences from the University of Luxembourg, an MA in Anthropology from the University of Auckland, and a BA in Anthropology from Barnard College.
Anastasia's interdisciplinary research ethnographically explores articulations of language and/as materiality in interreligous relations and encounters in Europe. Currently, Anastasia is pursuing three areas of research:
1) Relations between French and Hebrew in Jewish community life in the Low Countries (funded by an award from the Sylvia and Moshe Ettenberg Research Grant in Jewish Education and a fellowship from the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture)
2) The potential for object-oriented work and stop motion animation to create novel conditions for interreligious learning and exchange in classrooms settings (supported by a grant from the University of Cambridge AHRC Impact Acceleration Account) and, most recently,
3) The roles and meanings of water in religious lives in Cambridge (part of the Water in Faith and Diverse Communities Project funded by OfWat).
