Oshank Hashemi is affiliated with the research group GCSEES. He holds a master’s degree in Russian and Eurasian Studies from Leiden University, Netherlands. In 2016 he completed a master’s thesis on Russian Symbolists and their reception of the works of Nikolai Gogol. He is also the recipient of the 2016 Peter Baehr Award for the best PhD research proposal, “The Voices of the Other: The Representation of Central Asian Gastarbeiter in Putin’s Russia (as portrayed in independent cinema).”
Since January 2018 he has been working on his PhD project, “Reading Pushkin, Supporting Putin: Russian Literature and the Kremlin’s Nation-Building Agenda.”