Veronica Kostenko is a Ph.D. in social sciences and works as a research fellow at the Laboratory for Comparative Social Research (Higher School of Economics, Russia). After graduating from Islamic studies department, Veronica Kostenko has switched her research interests to sociology and political science, but still works a lot on Arab region. Veronica teaches statistical methods and studies inequalities in comparative perspective. Veronica's research interests include gender inequalities, migration studies, minority rights, methods of statistical analysis, and comparative sociology.