Irina Shirobokova

ERI/PS2 Public Research Fellow

Irina Shirobokova (she/they) is a feminist geographer, Ph.D. candidate in Environmental Psychology at the Graduate Center, and researcher in the Cities ‘Becoming Lost’: the Ruptures of Grand Narratives of Modernity project at The Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography in Leipzig, Germany, where she explores space and time in utopia, artist-in-residence at the Pikene på Broen, Norway, Kirkenes. Irina’s current dissertation work is inspired by years of fieldwork in the Arctic’s peripheral cities. It asks what the politics of darkness might look like today and develops a grounded theory of darkness. Irina is a 2026 ERI/PS2 Summer Fellow.