In September and October 2007, again sponsored by IREX, he worked as a consulting ethnologist on behalf of the US Embassy in Armenia studying the Armenian Yazidi and Kurdish communities.
He has taught variety of courses including: 20th-century Russian literature, late 20th-century Russian cinema, Vampires in folklore and popular culture, Comparative Counterculture, Rock Music in Non-English speaking countries, Slavic Pagan Pantheon at GWU, Indiana University, and Tallinn University in Estonia.