2014 – 2019

PhD in Ethnology, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology (Halle/Saale, Germany), (defended at Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg, Germany, in 2020)

2007 – 2009

Master’s degree in Cultural Anthropology, European University at St Petersburg (Russia)

2000 – 2005

Specialist (Bachelor and Master equivalent) in History, Pomor State University (Russia)

2023 – 2025

Researcher, Center for Historical Research, Higher School of Economics, St Petersburg

2023

Postdoctoral Fellow, Witten/Herdecke University, Witten Institute for Family Business, Germany

2020 – 2022

Postdoctoral Fellow, Laboratory for Studies in Economic Sociology, Higher School of Economics, Moscow

2019 – 2022

Teaching Assistant, Department of History, Higher School of Economics, St Petersburg

• Russian: Native language
• English: C1
• German: B1

• Member of the European Association for Social Anthropologists
• Reviewer for two academic journals

2026 – present

Fellow, Academy in Exile, TU Dortmund, Germany

Tereshina, Daria. 2021. Managing Firms and Families: Work and Values in a Russian City. Berlin: LIT Verlag. doi.org/10.52038/978-3643-91408-8

Tereshina, Daria. “Business as a Gift: Family Entrepreneurship and the Ambiguities of Sharing.” In Family Firms and Business Families in Cross-Cultural Perspective: Bringing Anthropology Back In, edited by Tobias Koellner, 115–46. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-20525-5

Tereshina, Daria. “Post-Soviet Garment Manufacturing in the Era of Global Competition: Between Precarity, Creative Work and Developmental Hopes.” In Moral Economy at Work: Ethnographic Investigations in Eurasia, edited by L. Yalçın-Heckmann, 116–34. New York: Berghahn Books, 2021. doi.org/10.3167/9781800732353

Tereshina, Daria. “‘Sostradatel’nyi capitalism’ i ego rechevye zhanry: k diskursivnym osobennostiam vosproizvodstva ‘istorii uspekha’ v setevom marketinge” [“Compassionate Capitalism” and Its Speech Genres: On Reproduction of “Success Stories” in Network Marketing Companies]. In The Invention of Religion: De-secularization in the Post-Soviet Context, edited by Jeanne Kormina, Alexander Panchenko, and Sergei Shtyrkov, 232–62. St. Petersburg: European University at St. Petersburg, 2015.

Tereshina, Daria. “Topographiya Amerikanskoi mechty na ‘praznike uspeha’: konferencii, seti i setevoi marketing kompanii Amway” [The Topography of the American Dream at the “Festivals of Success”: Conferences, Networks, and Multilevel Marketing of Amway Corporation]. In The Topography of Happiness: Ethnographic Contours of Modernity, edited by Nikolai Ssorin-Chaikov, 130–73. Moscow: New Literary Observer, 2013.

Tereshina, Daria. “Divorce in Enterprising Families: Managing Risk, Sentiment, and Property after the End of Love.” Social Analysis 69, no. 4 (2025): 1–22. doi.org/10.3167/sa.2025.690401

Tereshina, Daria. “Semejnoe upravlenie biznesom: predprijatie kak domohozjajstvo” [Family Business Governance: The Enterprise as a Household]. Etnograficheskoe obozrenie [Ethnographic Review] 6 (2024): 66–80. doi.org/10.31857/S0869541524060046

Tereshina, Daria. “‘Byt’ soboj’ ili ‘radovat’ sebja’? Terapevticheskie tehnologii, jemocii i neravenstvo v sovremennoj Rossii” [“To Be Oneself” or “To Please Oneself”? Therapeutic Technologies, Emotions, and Inequality in Contemporary Russia]. The Journal of Social Policy Studies 22, no. 1 (2024): 25–42. doi.org/10.17323/727-0634-2024-22-1-25-42

“Divorce in Entrepreneurial Families: Managing Risk, Sentiment and Property after the End of Love.” The Family Behind the Family Business: An International Perspective, Witten/Herdecke University, Germany, 24–26 September 2025.

“Organizational Identity of Family Firms in Russia: An Anthropological Perspective.” The International Family Business Enterprises Conference (IFBEC), Mysore County Retreat, Mysore, India, 29–31 August 2024.

“Undoing Entrepreneurial Families: Risk, Uncertainty and Divorce in Family Firms in Russia.” Doing and Undoing with Anthropology, University of Barcelona, Spain, 23–26 July 2024.

“The Role of Women in the Family Firm and the Business Family: Cross-Cultural Perspectives from India, Japan, Russia and Peru.” With T. Köllner, B. Mohanakrishnan, P. Glocker, and S. Caspary. Back to the Core: Addressing Paradoxes and Ambiguities in Family Business Research, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, 5–8 July 2023.

“Women’s Business as a Male Gift and Alternative Employment.” New Anthropological Horizons in and beyond Europe, ISCTE-University Institute of Lisbon and ICS-Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon, 21–24 July 2020.

“The Value of Family Ties: Creating Trust and Loyalty in the Russian Private Firms.” Social Relations of the Capitalocene: Work, Value(s) and Personhood Below the Commanding Heights, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle, Germany, 23–25 January 2019.

“‘I Will Never Let You Down’: Informal Mechanisms of Support in Private Firms in Provincial Russia.” Staying, Moving, Settling, Department of Social Anthropology, Stockholm University, 14–17 August 2018.

“Business ‘Without Moral Flaws’: The Shifting Boundaries of Orthodox Moral Teachings.” Moral Economies: Work, Values and Economic Ethics, Stiftung Leucorea, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Wittenberg, 6–9 December 2017.

“Entangled Moralities: Family Businesses in India and Russia.” With Sudeshna Chaki. Belonging: Affective, Moral and Political Practices in an Interconnected World, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, 4–7 October 2017.

“‘Shiyes Is Our Stalingrad’: Garbage Riots and Moral Outrage in Northwest Russia.” REALEURASIA Blog, December 10, 2019. www.eth.mpg.de/5354497/blog_2019_12_10_01.

“The Rules of the Game in Russia: The Story of the European University at St Petersburg.” REALEURASIA Blog, July 12, 2017. www.eth.mpg.de/4449555/blog_2017_07_12_02

“Moral Dilemmas of Family Capitalism in Provincial Russia.” REALEURASIA Blog, January 2, 2017. www.eth.mpg.de/4305587/blog_2017_01_02_01.

“Family Commitments and Work Ethics of Family-Based Enterprises in Russia.” REALEURASIA Blog, August 19, 2016. www.eth.mpg.de/4202272/blog_2016_08_19_01.