Olga Zabalueva is an associate professor in Museology at Department of Culture and Media Studies, Umeå university, Sweden, and teaches in Branch Programme for Museums and Heritage Studies.
Olga has an MA in Museology from the Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow and an MA in Applied Cultural Analysis from Lund University, Sweden. As a museum professional she has more than 10 years of working experience in different cultural institutions in Moscow and in Sweden at research and collection departments.
Olga did her PhD in Culture and Society at Linköping university, Sweden, in 2023 with the focus on the use of politics in the process of museum making (and unmaking); framing of “difficult issues” which cultural institutions are dealing with in both the global and the Swedish museum context; and constituting socially relevant and sustainable museum practices based on agonistic memory framework and museum activism. Olga’s research focuses on the uses (and abuses) of heritage, museum politics, cultural memory, museum activism and finding cross-sections in-between these areas. She has a specific interest for memory, politics, and heritage in the post-Soviet space; decolonial museology; the working conditions of museum professionals, and, as of recently, the relation between new materialisms and digital realm in museum collections.
Olga is a member of International Council of Museums (ICOM) and Memory Studies Association (MSA).
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