Anastasia Shabalina has been finishing a doctoral dissertation at the Institute of Philosophy and Law of Russian Academy of Science at Akademogorodok, Novosibirsk. Currently, she started her research stay at SCRG AMU and works on a project „Evaluation Game in Academia”, where she has been collecting archival materials on the Soviet regimes of evaluation of science.

Anastasia graduated from Krasnoyarsk Pedagogical University and studied MA in history (specialisation: archivist).

Research interests: cognitive sciences, enactivism, Buddhism, Russian and Soviet history