Dr. Alisa Maksimova

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Curriculum Vitae

Education:
• Academic Degrees:
  • Doctoral Degree (Candidate of Sciences in Sociology, PhD equivalent), thesis “The order of social interaction in a museum of science and technology: opportunities of microsociological approach”, Russian Academy of Sciences, 2017
  • Graduate student in Sociology, Faculty of Sociology, National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE), Moscow
  • Master of Arts, in Sociology, National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE), Moscow, 2013
  • Master of Arts, in Sociology (with distinction), The Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences, The University of Manchester (collaborative program), Moscow, 2012
  • Bachelor of Arts, equivalent in Sociology, National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE), Moscow, 2011 
• Position: Postdoctoral Researcher

Focus of Research

• Museums as learning environments
• Interactional sociology
• Conversation analysis
• Narratives of AI
• Active role of technology in social interaction
• Artificial intelligence in education

Selected Publications and Conference Contributions

Maksimova, A., Nachtigall, V., & Rummel, N. (2025, December 05). Promoting critical reflection and challenging AI perceptions in museums: Evidence from a qualitative case study and experimental studies [Paper presentation]. Conference “transformativ – Sharing Perspectives on Artificial Intelligence” organised by experimenta and RHET AI, Heilbronn.

Maksimova, A., Nachtigall, V., Rummel, N. (2025). Learning about artificial intelligence in (an Imagined) museum setting: Investigating the effects of critical and everyday context. In A. Rajala, A. Cortez, R. Hofmann, A. Jornet, H. Lotz-Sisitka, & L. Markauskaite (Eds.), Proceedings of the 19th International Conference of the Learning Sciences - ICLS 2025. Helsinki, Finland (pp. 2729–2731). International Society of the Learning Sciences. [Poster] https://doi.org/10.22318/icls2025.948170

Maksimova, A. (2024). Negotiation of dominant AI narratives in museum exhibitions. AI & Society, 40, 3813-3826. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-024-02140-6

Maksimova, A., Nachtigall, V., & Rummel, N. (2025, October 09). Far superior to the old canary: Perceptions of AI applications in the mining industry in a museum context [Paper presentation]. Conference “Creating Spaces for Digital Futures”, organised by the Center for Advanced Internet Studies, Bochum.

Karumbaiah, S., Liu, P., Maksimova, A., De Vylder, L., Rummel, N., Aleven, V. (2023). Multimodal Analytics for Collaborative Teacher Reflection of Human-AI Hybrid Teaching: Design Opportunities and Constraints. In: Viberg, O., Jivet, I., Muñoz-Merino, P., Perifanou, M., Papathoma, T. (Eds), Responsive and Sustainable Educational Futures. EC-TEL 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Vol 14200, pp. 580-585). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-42682-7_45