Olga Reznikova a cultural scientist and university assistant for European Ethnology at the University of Innsbruck. She specialises in research on urban topics and anti-Semitism as well as colonial history and racism in Russia. She first studied Jewish History and Middle-Eastern Culture at the St. Petersburg Institute of Jewish Studies and then continued her studies at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) Munich where she wrote her master’s thesis on anti-Chechen racism. After graduating in European Ethnology in 2012, she worked as research associate at the LMU Munich and University of Göttingen Georg August. Among other things, she joined a DFG (German Research Foundation) project on “urban ethics”.