Dmitrii M. Zhikharevich

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Appointments

  • Since 02/2023 — University of Vienna, Department of Political Science (Austria): Postdoctoral Research Fellow, VALUE-VACC.
  • 05/2022–09/2022 — Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Department of Sociology & Anthropology (Israel): Visiting Fellow.
  • 09/2020–05/2022 — European University at St Petersburg, STS Centre & Department of Sociology (Russia): Research Fellow.
  • 10/2019–07/2020 — London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Accounting (United Kingdom): LSE Fellow.

Education

  • 2014–2019 — PhD in Accounting, London School of Economics and Political Science. Dissertation: Heuristics of Capital: A Historical Sociology of U.S. Venture Capitalism, 1946–1968. PhD dissertation.
  • 2014–2017 — Graduate Diploma of Aspirantura Program in Sociology. Advanced postgraduate training in sociology, specializing in theory, methodology, and history of sociology.

Selected publications

  • 2026 Zhikharevich, D. M., & Paul, K. T. Uncertainty, (de)valuation, and the limits of legal calculability: litigating vaccine injury in American torts. Transnational Legal Theory.
  • 2026 Zhikharevich, D. M., & Pigounides, V. Charisma without routinization, or how tech entrepreneurs turn into tech oligarchs. Science as Culture.
  • 2025 Paul, K., Pichelstorfer, A., & Zhikharevich, D. M. Making Vaccines Investable in Preclinical Vaccine R&D. Journal of Cultural Economy.
  • 2025 Zhikharevich, D. M., & Paul, K. T. From Jurisdiction to Veridiction: Expertise and Economization of Immunization Policy in the US. Economy and Society.
  • 2025 Zhikharevich, D. M., & Pigounides, V. David Graeber, économiste moral. In V. Dutraive (Ed.), Penser et agir avec David Graeber.
  • 2025 Zhikharevich, D. M. Media Review: Forensic Science: A captive occupation. Organization Studies.

Teaching

  • 10/2022–02/2024 — European University at St Petersburg (Russia): Graduate seminar in Sociology of Risk.
  • 02/2022–07/2023 — Sciences Po, Department of Sociology (France): Undergraduate course in New Theories of Capitalism.
  • 2021–2022 — European University at St Petersburg (Russia): Graduate courses in Economic Sociology, Introduction to Sustainable Development, and Sociology of Risk.
  • 09/2021–10/2021 — Tyumen University, School of Advanced Studies (Russia): Undergraduate courses in STS and Qualitative Methods.
  • 2015–2019 — London School of Economics and Political Science (United Kingdom): Undergraduate classes in Financial and Management Accounting.

Academic service and professional activities

  • Ad hoc reviewer for Valuation Studies, Journal of Cultural Economy, Social Theory & Health, Monitoring of Public Opinion: Economic and Social Changes, Sociology of Power, Science & Technology Studies, and Critical Policy Studies.
  • Discussant, Bodies, Pharmaceuticals, Ecologies Workshop, STS Department, University of Vienna (29–30 June 2026).
  • Discussant, Immunity & Resistance Workshop, STS and Political Science Departments, University of Vienna (15–16 December 2025).
  • Co-organizer and Academic Coordinator, EUSP Climate Change Project.
  • Organizer, Social Studies of Climate Change Seminar, European University at St Petersburg.

Languages

Russian (native), English (fluent), German (C1), Hebrew (B1).

References

Available upon request.

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