Alexander Sasha Kondakov is Assistant Professor at the UCD School of Sociology, Ireland. His truly international experience includes positions at the University of Helsinki in Finland, the Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars in Washington, DC, the University of Wisconsin–Madison in the United States and the Centre for Independent Social Research in St. Petersburg, Russia. Alexander’s career started in Russia, at the European University in St. Petersburg, where he pioneered LGBT and Queer Studies. He has extensively published in journals such as Sexualities, Social & Legal Studies and European Journal of Criminology.