Платонова Евгения Сергеевна

Education and Degrees

2025

Candidate of Sciences* (PhD)
HSE University

2019

Master's
HSE University

2017

Bachelor's
HSE University

* Candidate of Sciences
According to the International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED) 2011, Candidate of Sciences belongs to ISCED level 8 - "doctoral or equivalent", together with PhD, DPhil, D.Lit, D.Sc, LL.D, Doctorate or similar. Candidate of Sciences allows its holders to reach the level of the Associate Professor.

Continuing education / Professional retraining / Internships / Study abroad experience

Winter School “Gender Studies” (European University at Saint Petersburg, November 13-15, 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)

Professional Interests

history of late soviet period cultural history gender history history of consumption men and masculinities studies reproductive health

Awards and Accomplishments

Young Faculty Support Programme (Group of Young Academic Professionals)
Category "New Lecturers" (2025–2026)

Courses (2025/2026)

Historiography of Soviet Society (Master’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities field of study History; 1 year, 2 module)Eng
Historiography of Soviet Society (Master’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities field of study History; 1 year, 2 module)Eng
Historiography of Soviet Society (Mago-Lego; School of Arts and Humanities; 2 module)Eng
Historiography of Soviet Society (Master’s programme; School of Arts and 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; School of Arts and Humanities; 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

Timetable for today

Full timetable

Dissertation for a Candidate of Sciences degree

2025
E. Platonova Советская мужская мода периода оттепели: нормативные представления, механизмы управления, контексты потребления

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);

17

Sep

2024

'Eventful, Bright and Fun': What HSE SPB Day 2024 Is Like

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.

24

Nov

2021

A 1-year Graduate Student of the Department of History and Research Assistant at the Laboratory for Ecological and Technological History Evgeniia Platonova Was Admitted to a Full-Time Advanced Doctoral Program

Evgeniia Platonova