Evgeniia Platonova
- Senior Lecturer: HSE Campus in St. Petersburg / School of Arts and Humanities / Department of History
- Evgeniia Platonova has been at HSE University since 2019.
Education
HSE University
HSE University
Continuing education / Professional retraining / Internships / Study abroad experience
- Winter School “Gender Studies”, Gender Studies Program (European University at Saint Petersburg, November 13-15, 2018)
- Visiting student (University of Jyväskylä, Fall term 2018)
- Russian-German Research School “How Communism Has Shaped Our World”, International Center for the History and Sociology of World War II and Its Consequences, ISHA Berlin and ISHA Moscow (Higher School of Economics, November 20-26, 2017)
Awards and Accomplishments
- Young Faculty Support Programme (Group of Young Academic Professionals)
Category "New Lecturers" (2025)
Courses (2024/2025)
- Cultural History of the Cold War (Master’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities field of study History; 2 year, 1, 2 module)Eng
- Cultural History of the Cold War (Master’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities field of study History; 2 year, 1, 2 module)Eng
- Cultural History of the Cold War (Mago-Lego; 1, 2 module)Eng
- Historiography of Soviet Type Societies: History and Anthropology (Master’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities field of study History; 1 year, 2 module)Eng
- Historiography of Soviet Type Societies: History and Anthropology (Master’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities field of study History; 1 year, 2 module)Eng
- Historiography of Soviet Type Societies: History and Anthropology (Mago-Lego; 2 module)Eng
- Historiography of Soviet Type Societies: History and Anthropology (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study History; 1 year, 2 module)Eng
- History and Anthropology of Consumption (Master’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities field of study History; 2 year, 2 module)Eng
- History and Anthropology of Consumption (Master’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities field of study History; 2 year, 2 module)Eng
- History and Anthropology of Consumption (Mago-Lego; 2 module)Eng
- Yugoslavia - Building a Multi-National State (Bachelor’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities field of study History; 5 year, 3 module)Eng
- Past Courses
Courses (2023/2024)
- Historiography of Soviet Type Societies: History and Anthropology (Master’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities field of study History, field of study History; 1 year, 2 module)Eng
- Historiography of Soviet Type Societies: History and Anthropology (Mago-Lego; 2 module)Eng
- Historiography of Soviet Type Societies: History and Anthropology (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study History; 1 year, 2 module)Eng
- The Cold War Beyond Politics (Master’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities field of study History, field of study History; 2 year, 1, 2 module)Eng
- The Cold War Beyond Politics (Mago-Lego; 1, 2 module)Eng
Conferences
- 2023
Эмоциональные контексты моды (Москва). Presentation: Мужская мода, потребление и эмоции в СССР в 1950-е гг.
Akita International University Research Showcase 2023 (Акита). Presentation: Skincare Routine for Soviet People: The Use of Cosmetics in the USSR, 1950-1960s
- 2022
Everyday Life in State Socialist Societies (Пула). Presentation: Making a Soviet Man: Propaganda, Clothing Design and Everyday Fashion in the 1960s-1970s
Научный семинар "Тексты моды" (Москва). Presentation: Каким был советский модный мужчина? Мода и маскулинность в Советском Союзе в 1950-1970-е гг.
The 10th Tensions of Europe Conference: Technology, Environment and Resources (Орхус). Presentation: Gendered Resources: The Choice of Materials in Soviet Clothing Design, 1950s-1960s
- 2021
Baltic Connections: Conference in Social and Science History (Хельсинки). Presentation: Shaping Sovietness: The Peculiarities of Clothing Design for Men in the early Cold War
Baltic Connections: Conference in Social and Science History (Хельсинки). Presentation: Shaping Sovietness: The Peculiarities of Clothing Design for Men in the early Cold War
Материальность и репрезентации прогресса в позднем СССР: к истории советских вещей (Санкт-Петербург). Presentation: Представление о "прогрессе" в советских домах моделей одежды (1950-1960-е гг.)
Конструируя “советское”? Устойчивость и хрупкость “позднего социализма” (Санкт-Петербург). Presentation: Мода в «культурной столице»: дизайн одежды в Ленинграде (1940–1960-е гг.)
- 2020
Materiality of Late Soviet Production and Consumption: Institutions, Technology and Society (Санкт-Петербург). Presentation: Men, Clothing and Appearance in Leningrad during the 1950s-1970s
- 2019
I всероссийская Студенческая научная конференция Школы исторических наук НИУ ВШЭ «Микросюжеты: малые истории о больших процессах» (Москва). Presentation: Феминность в дискурсе Ленинградской моды в период "оттепели"
XII международная конференция молодых учёных "Конструируя ‘советское’: политическое сознание, повседневные практики, новые идентичности" (Санкт-Петербург). Presentation: Границы мужского в модном дискурсе Ленинграда в период "оттепели”
- 2018
Студенческая научно-исследовательская конференция “Symposium Alumni” (Пермь). Presentation: Оттепель» и организация VI Всемирного фестиваля молодежи и студентов в Москве в 1957 г.
International Scholarly Conference for Young Researchers “Exploring the Past: New Social History at Crossroads of Methodological Trends” (Киев). Presentation: Constructing Femininity and Masculinity during the Thaw: the Case of Leningrad House of Models
- 2017
International Student Research Conference “Usable Pasts” (Санкт-Петербург). Presentation: Peaceful Co-Existence and the 6th World Festival of Youth and Students in Moscow in 1957
Grants
- The Russian Science Foundation, collective grant № 25-28-01645, the project "Scientific Studies of Work Conditions and Reproductive Health in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia: Hygienic Expertise and
Demographic Policy", 2025-2026 - The Russian Science Foundation, collective grant № 19-78-10017, the project "Material World of Late Soviet Society in the Cold War: Technological Innovations in Production and Representation of Mass Consumer Products", 2019-2024
- HSE Academic Fund Program, collective grant № 15-05-0059, the project "Nationalism and National Policy in the Soviet Union and Russia", 2015-2016
Employment history
- Distant archival and library assistant (Historisches Institut, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, 04.2021-09.2021);
- Junior research fellow at the Museum-apartment of academician I.P. Pavlov (Institute of Physiology of I.V. Pavlov Russian Academy of Sciences, 09.2020-11.2020);
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HSE University-St Petersburg will remember September 13 as the loudest and happiest day as this Friday, we had the most heartwarming autumn festival—HSE SPB Day. Students, professors, partners and friends of the university met at 'Sevkabel Port' as a big HSE family to celebrate the start of the new academic year with energetic music, have fun with student clubs and welcome the main characters of the evening—first-years. Find out which impressions this emotional day left in this article.