Anatoli ulyanov

Anatoli Ulyanov is a social critic, political asylee, and PhD Fellow at the University of California, Los Angeles.

His research on identity politics and propaganda draws extensively from the complexities of the post-Soviet experience.

Anatoli’s transdisciplinary approach toward media and culture integrates Critical Discourse Analysis, Semiotics, and Visual Anthropology to explore how memories, narratives, and symbols shape self-perception and social behavior.

Censored in both Ukraine and Russia, his work spans the creation of online platforms for democratic advocacy and the development of genocide-prevention media for the Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center.

His creative projects, including documentary films and photography, center on underrepresented individuals and marginalized communities.

He specializes in media and cultural studies. His approach combines Critical Discourse Analysis, Semiotics, and Visual Anthropology to examine how narratives and symbols affect self-perception, social behavior, and power dynamics.