Anatoli Ulyanov is a media researcher and documentary filmmaker whose interdisciplinary work bridges Critical Media Studies, Environmental Humanities, and Visual Anthropology. Focusing on post-Soviet and global contexts, he examines how toxic narratives shape identity, legitimize violence, and fracture social relations. Before joining UCLA, he led international media initiatives at the Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center and co-directed an AI-driven hate-speech detection project. His recent work examines Soviet media in the context of genocide and the analysis of hate offenders, in collaboration with the UCLA Initiative to Study Hate, the California State Commission on Hate, and the California Department of Civil Rights.
