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ANGELINA LUCENTO
National Research University Higher School of Economics Tel: +7 965 314 99 54 ul. Staraya Basmannaya str. 21/4 L-107 [email protected] 105066 Moscow [email protected] Russian Federation
Employment
Assistant Professor, Art History and History, School of History, National Research University-Higher School of Economics, Moscow 2017-present
Research Fellow, International Center for the History and Sociology of World War II and Its Consequences, National Research University-Higher School of Economics, Moscow 2015-2017
Humanities Initiative Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study, Central European University, Budapest 2014-2015
Education
Ph.D., Department of Art History, Northwestern University, 2014 Dissertation: “Painting for the Collective: Art, Politics, and Communication in Russia, 1918-1932” Committee: Christina Kiaer, Robert Bird, Hannah Feldman, and Mary Dietz
Visiting Graduate Scholar in Residence, Department of History, Moscow State University, 2010-2011 & 2012-2013
M.A., Department of Art History, Northwestern University, 2007
Certificate in Russian Language and Area Studies, Moscow International University, 2005-2006
A.B. Bryn Mawr College, Chemistry (major) and Russian (minor), magna cum laude, 2005
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Publications
Peer Reviewed Articles
“The NKVD and the Political Origins of Socialist Realism: The Persecution of the Boichukisty in Ukraine as Case Study,” under review.
“Outside the Text,” The Russian Review, forthcoming.
“Painting Against Empire: Béla Uitz and the Birth and Fate of Internationalist Socialist Realism,” The Russian Review 79:4 (October 2020): 578-605.
“Care Outside the Comfort Zone: Maternal Aesthetics, Katrin Nenasheva, and the New Politics of Performance Art in Russia,” Performance Research 22:4 (2017): 79-88.
“The Conflicted Origins of Soviet Visual Media: Painting, Photography, and Communication in Russia, 1925-1932,” Cahiers du Monde russe, 56/2-3, Avril- septembre 2015: 401-428.
Book Chapters
“Breakfast in Suuk Su: Visual ‘Tatarism’ on the Cusp of Soviet Empire,” in Picturing Russian Empire, eds. Valerie Knivelson, Sergei Kozlov, and Joan Neuberger (Oxford University Press, 2021), forthcoming
“Surface Tension: Sam Gilliam, Modernist Painting, and the Critical Examination of Race in Post-War American Art,” Critical Riot: On the Failures of Imagination in Contemporary Art Writing and Criticism, in press
Catalogue Essays
“Evolution and Homogenic Love in C.R. Ashbee’s Guild of Handicraft,” Design in the Age of Darwin, eds. Stephen Eisenman and Corinne Granhof (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2008): 51-59.
Exhibition Reviews and Critical Writing
Exhibition Review, “Gastev: How to Work,” All the Russias’ Blog (NYU Jordan Center), 12 February 2020 http://jordanrussiacenter.org/news/exhibition-review-gastev-how-to-work- gallery-on-shabolovke-moscow-russia-september-4-2019-november-24- 2019/?fbclid=IwAR3XXZoiZi7lE8elp6ijCnOFGzyUBp17l0A2S5nY5scygU5DBoXUwm 8qHIk#.XkTgxBNKjUq
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Кантор, Золотухин, Лученто и др. [Kantor, Zolotukhin, Lucento et al.], “Ревизия советского искусства: здесь и сейчас? [A Revision of Soviet Art: Here and Now?], Artguide, 24 January 2018 http://artguide.com/posts/1413
Exhibition Review, “Hyperrealism: When Reality Becomes an Illusion,” CAA.Reviews, 16 November 2016 http://www.caareviews.org/reviews/2757#.WC1ramQrL_Q
Дьяконов, Лученто, Плунгян и др. [Diaconov, Lucento, Plungian et al.], “Соцреализм: исследовательские перспективы и тупики [Sotsrealism: Research Perspectives and Dead Ends], Tatlin News 2:89:156 (2016), 677-703.
“Погоня за счастьем: как представляли себе социализм афроамериканские художники в США 1930-х годов? [In Pursuit of Happiness: How Did African American Artists Interpret Socialism in the USA in the 1930s?], Разногласия [Differences] No. 1, 25 February 2016 http://www.colta.ru/articles/raznoglasiya/10178
Exhibition Review, “Special Fund, 1937-1939,” National Art Museum of Ukraine, CAA.Reviews, 21 January 2016 http://www.caareviews.org/reviews/2693
Book Reviews
Book Review, Moscow Vanguard Art: 1922-1992, H-SHERA, 18 July 2019 https://networks.h-net.org/node/166842/reviews/4309572/lucento-tupitsyn- moscow-vanguard-art-1922-1992
Book Review, Aesthetic Revolutions and Twentieth Century Avant-Garde Movements, H- Russia, 10 August 2017 https://networks.h-net.org/node/10000/reviews/190429/lucento-erjavec-aesthetic- revolutions-and-twentieth-century-avant
Book Review, Aksenov and the Environs, Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema, Fall 2013: 353-354.
Works in Progress
Moving the Masses: Painting and Communication from Budapest to Bishkek, 1918-1941 (working title), manuscript in progress
“A Cultural Revolution from the ‘East:’ The Influence of TatLef and the Kazan School on the Soviet Avant-Garde,” article in preparation.
Published Translations
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Oleg V. Khlevniuk, “Top Down vs. Bottom-up: Regarding the Potential of Contemporary ‘Revisionism’,” trans. Aaron Hale-Dorrell and Angelina Lucento, Cahiers du Monde russe, forthcoming, winter 2016
Editorial Positions
Field Editor, European Exhibitions, caa.reviews, 2017-present
Editorial Board Member, DRUŽBOSLOVNE RAZPRAVE (Slovenia), http://druzboslovne-razprave.org/en/ 2015-present
Fellowships and Awards
Getty/ACLS Postdoctoral Fellowship in the History of Art, 2019-2020
Teacher of the Year Award, National Research University-Higher School of Economics 2018-2019
New Europe College International Fellowship for Advanced Study, Bucharest, Romania 2015-2016 (Declined)
Fulbright-Hays Grant (Administered by Institute of International Education), Moscow State University, Moscow 2012-2013
Paris Program in Critical Theory Fellowship (Northwestern University), EHESS, Paris, Fall 2011
Fulbright Research Scholarship, Moscow State University, Moscow, 2010-2011
Paris Program in Critical Theory Fellowship (Northwestern University), Paris and Moscow 2010-2011 (Declined)
Shanley Grant for Travel and Research Abroad, Northwestern University, Department of Art History Summer 2009
Graduate Research Grant, Northwestern University 2008-2009
Shanley Grant for Travel and Research Abroad, Northwestern University, Department of Art History Summer 2008
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Summer Research Grant for Fieldwork in Berlin, Moscow, and the Baltics, Buffet Center for International Studies, Northwestern University Summer 2008
Summer Language Grant for Study in Dresden, Germany, Northwestern University, Summer 2007
University Fellowship for Graduate Study, Northwestern University 2006-2011
U.S. Department of State Scholarship for Post-graduate Study Abroad (Title VIIII), Moscow International University, Moscow 2005-2006
George Kline Fellowship for Post-graduate Study Abroad, Bryn Mawr College 2005-2006
Teaching
As Instructor of Record
Introduction to Global Contemporary Art, National Research University-Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Winter/Spring 2019 [In English]
Art Historical Methodology: Introduction to Semiotics and Critical Theory, National Research University-Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Fall 2018 [In English]
Art Historical Methodology: Introduction to Social Art History, National Research University-Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Fall 2018 [In Russian and English]
Introduction to Global Contemporary Art, National Research University-Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Winter/Spring 2018 [In English]
Art Historical Methodology: Introduction to Social Art History, National Research University-Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Fall 2017 [In Russian and English]
Culture, Society, and War in Twentieth Century Europe (co-instructor of record, Seth Bernstein, course taught in English), National Research University-Higher School of Economics, Moscow Winter/Spring 2015-2016
Realism after Socialism: Art, Politics, and Communication in the Soviet Sphere, 1945- Present (graduate seminar), Central European University Fall 2014
Thesis supervision
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Graduate
Primary Advisor, Tatiana Volkova, “Russian Activist Art After Actionism: History and Theory,” National Research University-Higher School of Economics/Garage Museum of Contemporary Art Ph.D. Expected 2023
Primary Advisor, Jamilia Adulakhovna, «Искусство Павла Филонова в контексте реализации Госплана СССР (1920-1930-е годы): социально-исторический подход к эволюции формы и содержания творчества художника [The Art of Pavel Filonov in the Context of Soviet State Commissions (1920s-1930s): A Social Art History Approach]», National Research University-Higher School of Economics, in Russian MA Expected 2021
Primary Advisor, Sofia Dyer, «Новые Художники" и наука самовыражения: художник как куратор, критик и искусствовед в Ленинграде в 1980-х [Novye Khudozhniki" and the Science of Self-Expression: The artist as curator, art historian, and critic in 1980s Leningrad]», National Research University-Higher School of Economics, in English MA Expected 2021
Primary Advisor, Anatasiia Golubeva, «Искусство в годы военного социализма: С.Б. Телингатера на фронте [Art During Wartime Socialism: Solomon Telingater at the Front]», National Research University-Higher School of Economics, in Russian MA 2019
Primary Advisor, Polina Kotova, «Репрезентация американского искусства в советской прессе. Выставки Рокуэлла Кента и Роберта Раушенберга [The Representation of American Art in the Soviet Press: The Exhibitions of Rockwell Kent and Robert Rauschenberg]», National Research University-Higher School of Economics, in Russian MA 2019
Primary Advisor, Ekaterina Kirillina, «Комплексная марксистская экспозиция А.А. Федорова-Давыдова в контексте культурной революции: общественное восприятие и критика первой половины 1930-х гг. [Aleksei Fedorov-Davydov's Comprehensive Marxist Exposition in the Context of the Cultural Revolution: Public and Critical Perspectives in the First Half of the 1930s]», National Research University-Higher School of Economics, MA 2018
Primary Advisor, Ekaterina Safonova, «Н. Н. Пунин как «идеолог нового искусства» на страницах газеты «Искусство коммуны» [Nikolai Punin as an Ideologist of the New Art on the Pages of the Newspaper Art of the Commune]», National Research University- Higher School of Economics
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MA 2018
Departmental supervisor, Darja Filippova, “Blasphemy as a Tool for Institutional Critique: Exploring Lineages of Religious Aesthetics and Protest Culture in Political Performance Art through the Chronotope of Holy Foolery,” Central European University, Department of History MA 2015
Departmental co-supervisor, Anna Nagyházi-Soóky, “The Development of Art Criticism in Budapest from 1884 to 1901 through the Works of Zoltán Ambrus, Tamás Szana and Károly Lyka,” Central European University, Department of History MA 2015
Undergraduate
Departmental supervisor, Anatasiia Golubeva, «Политика Наркомата Просвещения в области изобразительного искусства в РСФСР 1928-1932 [The Politics of the Fine Arts Inside the People's Commissariat of Enlightenment in the RSFSR, 1928-1932]», National Research University-Higher School of Economics, Senior Thesis [дипломная работа] in Russian 2017
Departmental supervisor, Izabella Korchagina, “Влияние Советского Союза на визуальную культуру Второй Испанской республики: социально-политический контекст [The Influence of the Soviet Union on the Visual Culture of the Second Spanish Republic: Social and Political Contexts],” National Research University-Higher School of Economics, Senior Thesis [дипломная работа] in Russian 2017
Departmental supervisor, Anatasiia Golubeva, «Другая революционная политика: творчество Ивана Пуни во время Гражданской войны [Another Revolutionary Politics: The Civil War Oeuvre of Ivan Puni]», National Research University-Higher School of Economics, Third Year Paper [курсовая работа] in Russian 2016 This student’s English translation of her course paper was recently accepted for publication in Volume 10 of the UC Undergraduate Journal of Slavic and East/Central European Studies.
Departmental supervisor, Levan Bibilashvili, «Бумажная архитектура Ивана Леонидова: проект для Библиотеки им. Ленина [The Paper Architecture of Ivan Leonidov: Lenin Library Project]», National Research University-Higher School of Economics, Third Year Paper [курсовая работа] in Russian 2016
As Teaching Assistant
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Introduction to Modern Art, Northwestern University Winter 2014
Art of the Russian Revolution, Northwestern University Spring 2010
Contemporary Art and Its Engagements, Northwestern University Winter 2010
Introduction to Art History and the African Diaspora, Northwestern University Fall 2009
Introduction to Modernism, Northwestern University Spring 2009
Objects and Their Histories: A New Approach to Introductory Art History, Northwestern University Winter 2009
Introduction to European Art, Northwestern University Spring 2008
Contemporary Art in/and/about the Middle East, Northwestern University Fall 2007
Invited Talks and Presentations (Selected)
Invited Presentation, “Moving the Masses: Painting and Communication from Budapest to Bishkek, 1918-1941,” Getty/ACLS Postdoc Presentations, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles 14 July 2020
Invited Lecture (in Russian), “Социальная история искусства. Активизм ли? [Is Social Art History Activism?],” for the workshop “Независимость vs. инстатуциональность. Нужно ли исследователю образование? [Independence vs. Institutionalism: Does a Researcher Need a Special Education?],” Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow 10 July 2020
Invited Lecture, “Visual ‘Tatarisms’ on the Cusp of Soviet Empire,” NYU Abu Dhabi 11 March 2020 (rescheduled for 2021)
Invited Lecture (in Russian), “Дружба народов: Бела Уитц и Оксана Павленко в поиске интернационального монументального искусства [The Friendship of the Peoples: Béla Uitz and Oksana Pavlenko in Search of an International Monumental Art],” The Kyiv Picture Gallery National Museum, Kyiv 22 February 2020
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Invited Discussant, “Aesthetical and Affective Matters of Exhibiting,” Cold War Matters: (In)Visible Economics of Things, National Research University-Higher School of Economics, St. Petersburg 16-17 December 2019
Invited Conference Presentation, “History After Terror: How Oksana Pavlenko and Béla Uitz Reimagined the History of the RSFSR at VDNKh in the 1950s,” IX Poletaev Readings, National Research University-Higher School of Economics, Moscow 4 October 2019
Invited Lecture, “Painting Against Empire: Béla Uitz and the Birth of Internationalist Socialist Realism,” Department of History, Central European University, Budapest 15 January 2019
Invited Keynote Lecture, “Changing Conceptions of the Soviet Art Object after 1917,” Serpukhov History and Art Museum, Serpukhov, Russia 24 October 2018
Invited Conference Presentation, “Emanations for All: Solomon Nikritin's Theory of Painting as the Fuel of Socialism,” Energy Humanities East: Energy and Resource Discourses in (Post-) Soviet Culture, Humboldt University, Berlin 24-26 June 2018
Invited Public Lecture (in Russian), “Культурная революция из Казани [A Cultural Revolution from Kazan],” Tsar’s Tower Gallery, Moscow 22 March 2018
Invited Workshop Presentation, “In Search of a Proletarian Aesthetic: Anatolii Lunacharskii, Alfred Kurella, and the Turn to Materiality in Soviet Media Culture,” The Geopolitical Aesthetic of (Post-) Socialisms: China, Russia, and Beyond, Princeton University 29-30 September 2017
Invited Public Lecture, “Monumental Connections: The Impact of Soviet-American Friendship on the Development of Realist Art in the 1930s,” HSE Open Lectures, Gorky Park, Moscow 14 September 2017
Invited Panelist (in Russian), “Я не поэт, а деятель культуры [I Am Not a Poet, but a Cultural Worker], Round Table on the Work of Dmitry Prigov, State Tret’iakov Gallery, Moscow 28 July 2017
Invited Talk, “Changing Conceptions of the Soviet Art Object after 1917,” The Museum after the Revolution, Calvert 22 Foundation, London
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28-29 April 2017
Invited Panelist (in Russian), “Культурная революция [Cultural Revolution],” The Gallery on Shabolovke, Moscow 23 April 2017
Invited Panelist (in Russian), “Городские феминистские жесты и коллективные действия. Опять? [Urban Feminist Acts and Collective Actions: Again?],” Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow 9 April 2017
Invited Lecture, “Crafting Surfaces for the Masses: The Impact of David Shterenberg’s Modernist Painting on the Development of Soviet Media Culture, 1918-1932,” Syracuse University, Department of Art History, New York, USA 27 March 2017
Invited Lecture, “Crafting Surfaces for the Masses: The Impact of David Shterenberg’s Modernist Painting on the Development of Soviet Media Culture, 1918-1932,” Roanoke College, Department of Art History, Virginia, USA 23 March 2017
Invited Lecture, “The Transnationalism of Revolutionary Realism: Bela Uitz, Oksana Pavlenko, and the Evolution of Soviet Monumental Painting in the 1930s,” EHESS, Paris 14 March 2017
Invited Lecture (in Russian), “Монументальные связи: искусство и дружба между США и СССР в 1930-е [Monumental Connections: Art and Friendship between the USA and the USSR in the 1930s],” Московский гусодарственный университет им. Ломоносова [Moscow State University] 24 November 2016
Invited Lecture (in Russian), “Из Будапешта во Фрунзе: Бела Уитц, Оксана Павленко и развитие советского монументального искусства в 1930-х г, [From Budapest to Frunze: Bela Uitz, Oksana Pavlenko, and the Evolution of Soviet Monumental Art in the 1930s]”, Центр авангарда [Center for the Avant-Garde], Moscow 22 September 2016
Invited Lecture (in Russian), “История одной газеты: как «Правда» пыталась создать СССР от здания до читающих масс, [The History of One Newspaper: How Pravda Attempted to Create the USSR from Its Building to the Reading Masses],” Дом культуры делай сам/а [The Do It Yourself House of Culture], Moscow 17 September 2016
Invited Lecture (in Russian), “Художественая революция из ‘востока’: влияние ТатЛЕФ’а на развитие советского авангарда, [An Artistic Revolution from the ‘East’:
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The Influence of TatLEF on the Evolution of the Soviet Avant-Garde]”, Центр авангарда [Center for the Avant-Garde], Moscow 15 September 2016
Invited lecture (in Russian), “Монументальные связи: искусство и дружба между США и СССР в 1930-е [Monumental Connections: Art and Friendship between the USA and the USSR in the 1930s],” Московский музей современного искусства [Moscow Museum of Contemporary Art] 25 April 2016
Key-note presentation (in Russian), “В поисках интернационального монументального искусства: Бела Уитц и Оксана Павленко, из Харькова во Фрунзе, [In Search of an International Monumental Art: Bela Uitz and Oksana Pavlenko from Khar’kov to Frunze],” Платформа ШТАБ [SHTAB Platform], Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan 8 April 2016
Invited Lecture, “Modernism from the United States to the Soviet Union,” Центр современного искусства КГФ [Contemporary Art Center KGF], Moscow 22 March 2016
Invited Paper, “A Cultural Revolution from the ‘East:’ The Influence of TatLef and the Kazan School on the Soviet Avant-Garde,” In Empire’s Long Shadow, University of Chicago 26 February 2016
Invited Lecture, “Painting for the Collective, Speaking for the State: The Struggle Over Figure and Text in Soviet Art, 1918-1928,” Department of Slavic Languages, Columbia University 4 February 2016
Invited panelist (in Russian), "Социалистический реализм: исследовательские перспективы и тупики, [Socialist Realism: Research Perspectives and Dead Ends],” Центр авангарда [Center for the Avant-Garde], Moscow 23 December 2015
Invited panelist (in Russian), "Особенности изучения авангарда в России, Европе и Америке, [Approaches to the Study of the Avant-Garde in Russia, Europe, and America],” Moscow Pedagogical State University, 13 November 2015
Invited panelist (in Russian), “Актуальные проблемы изучения и интерпретации художественного наследия 1920-1930-х годов [Actual problems in the study and interpretation of the artistic heritage of the 1920s and 1930s],” Центр авангарда [Center for the Avant-Garde], Moscow 17 September 2015
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“Art to the Masses! AKhR, the October Association, and the Invention of Soviet Media Theory,” University of Szeged, Hungary 2 April 2015
“Painting Our Way Out: American Art during the Great Depression of the 1930s,” Gorky Library, Perm, Russian Federation 27 February 2011
Conference Participation (Selected)
“The NKVD and the Political Origins of Socialist Realism: The Persecution of the Boichukisty in Ukraine as Case Study,” The Political Police and the Soviet System: Insights from Newly Opened KGB Archives in the Former Soviet States, Georgetown University, Washington, DC 3-4 April 2020
“Collectivist Socialist Realism: The October Association and the Radicalization of Soviet Monumental Painting in the 1930s,” Association of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies Convention, San Francisco 23-26 November 2019
Discussant, “The Politics of Russian Women’s History,” Association of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies Convention, San Francisco 23-26 November 2019
“Breakfast in Suuk Su: Visual “Tatarism” on the Cusp of Soviet Empire,” Picturing Russian Empire, University of Tyumen, Tyumen, Russia 28-29 June 2019
“Monumental Art Against Concentrated Spectacle: Soviet Murals As Catalysts for Collectivist Politics, 1928-1968,” College Art Association, New York 13-16 February 2019
Roundtable Participant, “Book Discussion: Russian Constructivism by Christina Lodder,” Association of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies Convention, Boston 6-9 December 2018
“Feeling from the Surface? The Neurophysiology of Socialist Realist Painting,” Association of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies Convention, Boston 6-9 December 2018
“Actionism as Anthropology: Katrin Nenasheva and the New Politics of Performance Art in Russia,” Art, Materiality, and Representation: Royal Anthropology Institute Conference, London June 2018
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Conference Co-Organizer, “The Aesthetics of Social Equality: Avant-Garde, Populisms, and the People,” National Research University-Higher School of Economics, 10-11 May 2018
“Painting Socialist Internationalism: Béla Uitz and the Development of Transnational Proletarian Art, 1930-1941,” Association of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies Convention, Chicago November 2017
Roundtable Discussant, "The Life of Film Beyond the Silver Screen," Association of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies Convention, Chicago November 2017
“Representing the Revolution: How October 1917 Shaped the Face of the American Black Power Movement,” Trajectories of October: Origins, Reverberations and Models of Revolution, EHESS, Paris 19-21 October 2017
“Antiquity and the New Man: The Classical Figure in the Work of Evgenii Katsman,” VI Международная научная конференция «Художник. Революция. Общество» [Sixth International Scholarly Conference “The Artist, the Revolution, and Society], Ulyanovsk, Russia, 15 September 2017
Conference Co-Organizer (with Jessica Werneke), Art vs. Document: Photography in Modern Russian History, National Research University-Higher School of Economics, 1-2 June 2017
"Entangled Modernisms: Constructivism, Jadidism, and the Emergence of a Global Avant-Garde in Eurasia," College Art Association, New York 15-18 February 2017
“The Site and Sound of Nonconformity: Boris Mikhailov’s Conceptual Photography in the Soviet Cityscape,” Association of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies Convention, Washington, D.C. November 2016
Roundtable Discussant, “The Rise and the Fall of the Soviet Industrial Sublime,” Association of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies Convention, Washington, D.C. November 2016
“Unexpected Affinities: The Role of Jewish Artists in the Development of Early Soviet Culture, 1917-1932,” History of Soviet Jewry (1917-1991): New Sources, New Approaches, Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center, Moscow June 15-15 2016
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“Toward a Pictorial History of the Modern Russian Word: Petr Miturich, Dmitrii Prigov, and the Development of an Avant-Garde Encyclopedia of Text and Image, 1919/1985,” Sixth International Prigov Symposium, St. Petersburg May 2016
"Роль Международного бюро революционных художников (МБРХ) в глобальном модернизме: Открытия из архива [The Role of the International Bureau of Revolutionary Artists (MBRKh) in Global Modernism: New Findings from the Archive]," Федорово-Давыдовские чтения [Presentations in Honor of A.A. Fedorov- Davydov], Московский государственный университет (МГУ) [Moscow State University], Moscow (in Russian) April 2016
Panel Co-Convener (with Dr. Alla Vronskaya), “Aesthetics and Art Theory in the Socialist Context,” College Art Association, Washington, DC February 2016
“Defining Socialist Industry: Anatolii Lunacharskii, Alexei Gastev, and the Question of Technical Aesthetics in Proletarian Culture,” Association of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies Convention, Philadelphia November 2015
Roundtable Discussant, “Records, Facts, and Facsimiles: Photographic ‘Truth’ in Russian Culture,” Association of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies Convention, Philadelphia November 2015
“The Development of a New Perspective from Old Methods: Bela Uitz and the Role of Renaissance Aesthetics in Soviet Monumental Art,” Actual Problems in the Theory and History of Art VI, Moscow State University, Moscow October 2015
“New Media and the Culture of Endless War: Contemporary Visual Culture in Ukraine as Case Study,” Past the “Post”: Theorizing the Post-Post Soviet via (New) Media and Popular Culture, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands June 2015
“Evaluating Violence: How Evgenii Katsman Painted Felix Dzerzhinskii and Why it Matters to History,” Teaching Visual Culture: Methodologies, Challenges, Perspectives, Central European University, Budapest February 2015
“Painting with Photography, Painting Against Photography: The Conflicted Origins of Soviet Visual Media,” Association of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies Convention, San Antonio
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November 2014
“Antiquity and the New Man: The Classical Figure in the Work of Evgenii Katsman,” Actual Problems in Art Theory and History V, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg October 2014
“The Conflicted Origins of Soviet Visual Media: Painting, Photography, and Communication in Socialist Russia,” Nordic Political Science Association, Gothenburg, Sweden August 2014
“The Conflicted Origins of Soviet Visual Media: Painting, Photography, and Communication in Socialist Russia,” College Art Association, Chicago January 2014
“No More Passive Spectators! The Role of Realist Painting in the Development of Collective Politics,” Socialist Realist Art: Production, Consumption, Aesthetics, Södertörn University/Stockholm Museum of Modern Art, Stockholm, Sweden October 2012
“Painting, Matter, Space: David Shterenberg and Perceptual Innovation in Early Soviet Russia,” Space of VKhUTEMAS: Heritage, Traditions, Innovation, Moscow Architectural Institute, Moscow, Russian Federation November 2010
“Counter-criticality: Sam Gilliam and the Politics of Abstract Painting in the Post-Civil Rights Era,” Black Graduate Association Graduate and Professional Student Research Conference, Northwestern University April 2010
Conference co-organizer (with Christina Kiaer), Avant-garde and Totalitarianism Re-visited: Soviet Visual Culture, 1920s-1940s, Northwestern University March 2010
Campus and Departmental Talks
“Entangled Modernisms: Socialism, Jadidism, and the Evolution of Soviet Visual Culture,” School of History, National Research University-Higher School of Economics, Moscow 25 November 2016
“Preparing the Populace: The Role of Anti-Fascist Imagery in Soviet Visual Culture, 1932-1941,” Looking Back, Looking Forward: New Directions in World War II Research, National Research University-Higher School of Economics, Moscow 17 March 2016
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“Painting for the Collective, Speaking for the State: The Struggle Over Figure and Text in Soviet Art, 1918-1928,” National Research University-Higher School of Economics, Moscow 28 January 2016
“Evaluating Violence: Why the First Official Portrait of Felix Dzerzhinskii Matters to History,” Central European University-Institute for Advanced Study Fellows Seminar, Budapest 11 March 2015
“Toward a Cultural Revolution: Figuration and Communication under NEP, 1921-1928,” Department of Art History, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA 21 February 2013
Museum Experience
Curatorial Assistant, Darwin and Design, Block Museum of Art, Evanston, IL 2008
Curatorial Intern, The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, Russia 2005-2006
Service to Profession
Grant application evaluator and interviewer, Fulbright Russia 2011-Present
Teaching Areas
Modern Art of Europe and North America, 1860-1960 Contemporary Art in the Global Context History of Photography Art of the African Diaspora Visual Culture: History and Theory New Media: History, Theory, and Practice Critical Theory and Aesthetics Cultural History of Russia and former USSR Modern Intellectual History
Language Proficiencies
Russian (Speaking, Reading, Writing), Near native German (Speaking and Reading), Good French (Speaking and Reading), Good
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Ukrainian (Speaking and Reading), Fair
Professional Affiliations
College Art Association (CAA) Association of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) Society for Disability Studies (SDS) Society of Historians of East European and Russian Art (SHERA) International Association of Art Critics (AICA)