Maria Gunko is a DPhil Candidate in Migration Studies at SAME University of Oxford, and Research Fellow at the TS&D Lab Yerevan State University. She holds an MSc and PhD in Human Geography from the Moscow Lomonosov State University. Maria’s research interests lie at the intersection of urban studies and social anthropology, including the ethnography of space and place, infrastructures, and urban shrinkage/decay/ruination, with a geographical focus on Eastern Europe and the Southern Caucasus. She is co-editor of the collective monograph Postsocialist Shrinking Cities (Routledge), author of over twenty scholarly articles and numerous media essays.