Anya Shatilova is a Ph.D. candidate in the Ethnomusicology program at Wesleyan University (Middletown, CT, United States). Her research interests include various musical and sound practices in contemporary and Imperial Russia as well as dissemination of Russian traditional instrumental music outside the country. Anya received a BM in Music Performance from St. Petersburg State University of Culture and Arts (Russia), MM in Musicology from the New England Conservatory of Music (Boston, MA, United States), and MA in Ethnomusicology from Wesleyan University (Middletown, CT, United States).