Alla Vronskaya
ehemalige Gastdozentin
Curriculum vitae
EDUCATION
Doctor of Philosophy in the History, Theory and Criticism of Art and Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Department of Architecture, 2014
Dissertation: “The Productive Unconscious: Architecture, Experimental Psychology and Techniques of Subjectivity in Soviet Russia, 1919-1935”
Candidate of Arts and Sciences in Art History, State Institute of Art Research,
Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, 2007
Dissertation: “Sir Reginald Blomfield (1856-1942) as a Garden Designer: A British and European Perspective”
Specialist in Philosophy, Moscow State University, Philosophy Department, 2004
EMPLOYMENT
Postdoctoral Fellow, Chair Prof. Philip Ursprung, ETH Zurich, September 2014-present
Research Fellow, Department of Classical Western Art, State Institute of Art Research, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, 2006 –present
SCHOLARSHIPS AND FELLOWSHIPS
Swiss Government Excellence Fellowship, 2012/2013 (deferred to 2013/2014). Visiting doctoral student, Institut für Geschichte und Theorie der Architektur (gta), Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH) Zürich, 2013-2014
The Getty Research Institute Pre-doctoral Fellowship, 2012/2013
DAAD Research Scholarship, 2012-2013 (declined)
Dumbarton Oaks Research Library Junior Fellowship in Garden and Landscape Studies, 2011
DAAD Intensive German Language Summer School Scholarship, 2011
Victorian Society in America Newport Summer School Scholarship, 2010
Hyzen Travel Fellowship, MIT, 2009
CCA (Canadian Center for Architecture)-HTC Research Fellowship, 2009
MIT MISTI Germany Scholarship, 2008
Social Science Research Council (SSRC) Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship (DPDF), 2008
Victorian Society in America London Summer School Scholarship, 2008
MIT Presidential Fellowship, 2007
The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, Junior Fellowship, 2005
European Gardens Scholarship, 2004
PRIZES AND AWARDS
The Best Essay of Iskusstvoznanie (Art History), #1, 2008, for the article “Puteshestvie Eduarda Andre v Rossiju i ego proekt parka usadby Semenovkoe-Otrada” (“The Journey of Edouard André to Russia and his Project for the Park of Semenovskoe-Otrada”)
The Best Essay of the Annual of the State Institute’s of Art Research Post-graduate Students’ Articles. 2004 for the article “Stilisticheskie aspecty britanskogo sadovogo iskusstva kontsa 19 – nachala 20 vekov” (“Stylistic Aspects of Late-Nineteenth –Early-Twentieth Century British Gardening”)
Historic Gardens Foundation Prize: Photography Prize 2004
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Lecture, “‘Deconstructivist Architecture and the Avant-Garde(s),” October 2014, Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture (gta), ETH Zurich (Prof. Philip Ursprung)
Invited guest lecture, “Fourth Dimension in Soviet Avant-Garde Art and Architecture,” November 2013, Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture (gta), ETH Zurich (Prof. Laurent Stalder)
Invited guest lecture, “Constructivism in Soviet Architecture,” April 2013, Department of Architecture, UCLA (Prof. Michael Osman)
Teaching Assistant (Prof. Caroline Jones), Modern Art and Mass Culture, Spring 2009, Department of Architecture, MIT
Teaching Assistant (Prof. David Friedman), Introduction to the History and Theory of Architecture, Fall 2008, Department of Architecture, MIT
Teaching Assistant (Prof. Galina Aslanova), History and Theory of World Culture, Spring 2004, Department of Philosophy, Moscow State University
SCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONS IN ENGLISH
“The Architecture of the Unconscious: Empiriocriticism and Nikolai Ladovskii’s ‘Psycho-analytical Method’ at VKhUTEMAS,” Architecture and the Unconscious, ed. by John Hendrix and Lorens Holm. London: Routledge, 2015 (forthcoming)
“Urbanist Landscape: Militsa Prokhorova, Liubov’ Zalesskaia, and the Emergence of Soviet
Landscape Architecture,” Women, Modernity, and Landscape Architecture. Ed. by John Beardsley and Sonja Duempelmann. London: Routledge, 2015, 60-80 (forthcoming)
“Invisible Colors: the Narkomfin House-Painting Experiment,” Narkomfin. The O’Neil Ford Monograph Series, Vol. 6. Ed. by Wilfied Wang and Danilo Udovicki-Selb. Austin, TX: The University of Texas at Austin, 2015 (forthcoming)
“Two Utopias of Georgii Krutikov’s City of the Future,” WRITING CITIES. Working Papers Volume 2. DISTANCE AND CITIES: Where do we stand? London: London School of Economics and Political Science, 2012, 46-56
“Shaping Eternity: the Preservation of Lenin’s Body,” Thresholds, no.38 (2011), 10-13
“The Transformation of the Concept of the Old English Garden and Interpretations of Garden History during the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries,” in the Studies in the History of Gardens & Designed Landscapes, Oct.-Dec. 2006, Vol. 26, No. 4, 267-274
SCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONS IN RUSSIAN
“Tsentral’nyj park kultury imeni Gorkogo v proektakh studentov VKhUTEINa” (“Gorky Central Park of Culture and Leisure in VKhUTEIN student projects”), Proceedings of the International Conference “Space of VKhUTEMAS.” Moscow: Publishing department of Moscow Stroganov Academy of design and applied art, 2010, 72-73
“Obrazy Italii v angliiskom sadovom iskusstve rubezha XIX-XX vekov” (“Italian Imagery in British Garden Art of the Turn of the Twentieth Century”), Kul’tura, epokha i stil’: klassicheskoe iskusstvo Zapada (Culture, Epoch, and Style: Western Classical Art). Moscow: Galart, 2010, 307-323
“Shestnadtsatiy vek – period formirovania britanskogo sadovogo iskusstva” (“Sixteenth Century – the Period of the Formation of British Garden Art”), Zapadnaya Evropa, shestnadtsatiy vek: tsivilizatsia, kultura, iskusstvo (Western Europe, the Sixteenth Century: Civilization, Culture, Art). Moscow: URSS, 2009, 246-265
“Puteshestvie Eduarda Andre v Rossiju i ego proekt parka usadby Semenovkoe-Otrada” (“The Journey of Edouard André to Russia and his Project for the Park of Semenovskoe-Otrada”), Iskusstvoznanie (Art History), #1, 2008, 154-165
“K voprosu o vlianii evropeiskoi khudozhestvennoi mysli na rossiyskoe sadovoe iskusstvo kontsa 19 – nachala 20 vekov” (“The Problem of Influence of European Artistic Thought on Russian Garden Art of the Late-Nineteenth – Early-Twentieth Century”), in Russkaya usadba. Sbornik obzhestva izuchenia russkoi usadby. (Russian Country – Estate. Annual of the Society for Studying Russian Country – Estate) Fasc. 11. Moscow: Zhiraf, 2006, 150-58
“Stilisticheskie aspecty britanskogo sadovogo iskusstva kontsa 19 – nachala 20 vekov” (“Stylistic Aspects of the Late-Nineteenth – Early-Twentieth Century British Gardening”), Ezhegodnik aspirantskikh rabot Gosudarstvennogo Instituta Iskusstvoznania ( Annual of the State Institute’s of Art Research Post-graduate Students’ Articles. 2004). Moscow: SIAR Press, 2005, 44-56.
“Sintez arkhitektury i sadovogo iskusstva v tvorchestve Reginalda Blumfelda” (“The Synthesis of Architecture and Garden Art in the Works of Sir Reginald Blomfield”), Prostranstvo i vremia voobrazhaemoi arkhitekturi. Sintez iskusstv i rozhdenie stilia. Sbornik Tsaritsinskogo museia. (Space and Time of Imaginary Architecture. Artistic synthesis and the birth of Style. The Annual of the Tsaritsyno Museum), Fasc. 7-8. Moscow: Probel-2000, 2005, 276-288.
EDITED PUBLICATIONS
Section editor “Soviet Modernist Architecture (1917-1991)” in Architectural Theory: A Global Perspective. Nnamdi Elleh, General Editor, Princeton Architectural Press, NJ, forthcoming in 2015 (co-edited with Danilo F. Udovicki-Selb)
In the Distance *research-in-progress 2010. Cambridge, MA: Puritan Press, 2011 (co-edited with Ana Maria Leon)
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
“Architecture of the Unconscious: ‘Psychoanalytical Method’ at VKhUTEMAS,” Society of Architectural Historians Annual Convention, Austin, April 2014
“‘Montage and Architecture’: Movement and Rhythm in the Architectural Theory of Soviet Rationalism,” Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies Annual Convention, New Orleans, November 2012
“From Analysis to Synthesis: Soviet Modernist Architecture as Organization,” Design, History, Revolution, New School of Design, April 2012
“The Red and the Green: Ozelenenie Campaign in the USSR (1931),” Color Green, University of Virginia Art History Department Graduate Student Symposium, March 2011
“Long Live Individuality! Psychotechnics and Architectural Pedagogy in Soviet Russia,”
Teaching Architecture Practicing Pedagogy, SoA, Princeton University, February 2011
“Central Park of Culture and Leisure in Ladovskii’s Workshop’ Student Projects: Space as a Movement,” The Space of VKhUTEMAS: Heritage, Traditions, Innovations, Moscow Institute of Architecture (MARHI), November 2010
“People’s Park: The Agency of the Public and Landscape Architecture in the Late-Stalinist USSR,” Architecture and the State, 1940s-1970s, GSAPP, Columbia University, April 2010
“Revolution at a Standstill: The Preservation of Lenin’s Body,” Explosive Past, Radiant Future, The Centre for Comparative Literature at the University of Toronto, March 2010
“A Post-Utopian Landscape: Disurbanist Projects for Gorky Park of Culture and Rest,” Avant-garde and Totalitarianism Revisited: Soviet Visual Culture, 1920s-1940s, Northwestern University, March 2010
“‘Landscape Dis-Urbanism’: Moisei Ginzburg’s Project for the Central Park of Culture and Rest and the Problem of Socialist Landscape,” New England Chapter, Society of Architectural Historians Student Conference, February 2010
“On the Origins of Parks of Culture and Rest, or Why Avant-Garde Did Not Flourish in Soviet Gardens,” What site?” *research-in-progress Graduate Student Conference, MIT, April 2009
“The Gardens of Sir Reginald Blomfield: Realizing a Vision of the National Past,”
The Edwardians, University of Hertfordshire, July 2006
“Between Science and Poetry: Popular Botany in the Victorian Period,” INCS (Interdisciplinary
Nineteenth Century Studies) International Conference 2006, Durham University, July 2006
“The Concept of the Old English Garden in the Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century Historiography,” XVI Graduate Art History Symposium, Indiana University, Bloomington, April, 2006
“Sir Reginald Bloomfield i rossiyskoe i evropeiskoe sadovoe iskusstvo (Sir Reginald Blomfield and Russian and European Gardening),” Mezhdunarodnaya konferentsia molodikh uchenykh Lomonosov-2004 (International Conference of Young Scholars Lomonosov -2004), Moscow State University, May, 2004
“Angliyskie sady kontsa 19 – nachala 20 vekov (English Gardens of the Late-Nineteenth – Early-Twentieth Century),” Mezhdunarodnaya konferentsia molodikh uchenykh Lomonosov-2003 (International Conference of Young Scholars Lomonosov -2003), Moscow State University, May, 2003
LECTURES
“The Energy of Color: Wallpainting and the Modernist Subject in the USSR, 1928-1932,” Getty Research Institute, March 2013
“Landscape as Experience: Rationalist Movement in Soviet Architecture, 1919-1941,” Dumbarton Oaks Research Library, October 2011
WORKSHOPS PARTICIPATION
Writing Cities, London School of Economics, May 2011.
Urban Visual Studies, St. Louis, June 2008 (Part 1); Milwaukee, September 2008 (Part 2)
DISSERTATIONS ADVISED
Olga Frolova, “Harold A. Peto and the Emergence of Landscape Design in Early-Twentieth-Century Britain,” Department of Classical Western Art, State Institute of Art Research, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow (in progress)
ACADEMIC SERVICE
Member-at-large at the Society of Historians of East-European, Eurasian, and Russian Art (SHERA), November 2012- November 2013
Co-organizer of In the Distance, “*research-in-progress” Graduate Student Conference, MIT, February 2010
ASSOCIATIONS
Society of Architectural Historians (SAH)
Society of Historians of East-European, Eurasian and Russian Art and Architecture (SHERA)
Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES)
Moscow Academic Committee for the Preservation of the VKHUTEMAS Legacy
World Monuments Fund: Site representative for Semenovskoe-Otrada country-estate in the World Monuments Watch list of 100 Most Endangered Sites of 2006
Doctor of Philosophy in the History, Theory and Criticism of Art and Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Department of Architecture, 2014
Dissertation: “The Productive Unconscious: Architecture, Experimental Psychology and Techniques of Subjectivity in Soviet Russia, 1919-1935”
Candidate of Arts and Sciences in Art History, State Institute of Art Research,
Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, 2007
Dissertation: “Sir Reginald Blomfield (1856-1942) as a Garden Designer: A British and European Perspective”
Specialist in Philosophy, Moscow State University, Philosophy Department, 2004
EMPLOYMENT
Postdoctoral Fellow, Chair Prof. Philip Ursprung, ETH Zurich, September 2014-present
Research Fellow, Department of Classical Western Art, State Institute of Art Research, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, 2006 –present
SCHOLARSHIPS AND FELLOWSHIPS
Swiss Government Excellence Fellowship, 2012/2013 (deferred to 2013/2014). Visiting doctoral student, Institut für Geschichte und Theorie der Architektur (gta), Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH) Zürich, 2013-2014
The Getty Research Institute Pre-doctoral Fellowship, 2012/2013
DAAD Research Scholarship, 2012-2013 (declined)
Dumbarton Oaks Research Library Junior Fellowship in Garden and Landscape Studies, 2011
DAAD Intensive German Language Summer School Scholarship, 2011
Victorian Society in America Newport Summer School Scholarship, 2010
Hyzen Travel Fellowship, MIT, 2009
CCA (Canadian Center for Architecture)-HTC Research Fellowship, 2009
MIT MISTI Germany Scholarship, 2008
Social Science Research Council (SSRC) Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship (DPDF), 2008
Victorian Society in America London Summer School Scholarship, 2008
MIT Presidential Fellowship, 2007
The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, Junior Fellowship, 2005
European Gardens Scholarship, 2004
PRIZES AND AWARDS
The Best Essay of Iskusstvoznanie (Art History), #1, 2008, for the article “Puteshestvie Eduarda Andre v Rossiju i ego proekt parka usadby Semenovkoe-Otrada” (“The Journey of Edouard André to Russia and his Project for the Park of Semenovskoe-Otrada”)
The Best Essay of the Annual of the State Institute’s of Art Research Post-graduate Students’ Articles. 2004 for the article “Stilisticheskie aspecty britanskogo sadovogo iskusstva kontsa 19 – nachala 20 vekov” (“Stylistic Aspects of Late-Nineteenth –Early-Twentieth Century British Gardening”)
Historic Gardens Foundation Prize: Photography Prize 2004
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Lecture, “‘Deconstructivist Architecture and the Avant-Garde(s),” October 2014, Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture (gta), ETH Zurich (Prof. Philip Ursprung)
Invited guest lecture, “Fourth Dimension in Soviet Avant-Garde Art and Architecture,” November 2013, Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture (gta), ETH Zurich (Prof. Laurent Stalder)
Invited guest lecture, “Constructivism in Soviet Architecture,” April 2013, Department of Architecture, UCLA (Prof. Michael Osman)
Teaching Assistant (Prof. Caroline Jones), Modern Art and Mass Culture, Spring 2009, Department of Architecture, MIT
Teaching Assistant (Prof. David Friedman), Introduction to the History and Theory of Architecture, Fall 2008, Department of Architecture, MIT
Teaching Assistant (Prof. Galina Aslanova), History and Theory of World Culture, Spring 2004, Department of Philosophy, Moscow State University
SCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONS IN ENGLISH
“The Architecture of the Unconscious: Empiriocriticism and Nikolai Ladovskii’s ‘Psycho-analytical Method’ at VKhUTEMAS,” Architecture and the Unconscious, ed. by John Hendrix and Lorens Holm. London: Routledge, 2015 (forthcoming)
“Urbanist Landscape: Militsa Prokhorova, Liubov’ Zalesskaia, and the Emergence of Soviet
Landscape Architecture,” Women, Modernity, and Landscape Architecture. Ed. by John Beardsley and Sonja Duempelmann. London: Routledge, 2015, 60-80 (forthcoming)
“Invisible Colors: the Narkomfin House-Painting Experiment,” Narkomfin. The O’Neil Ford Monograph Series, Vol. 6. Ed. by Wilfied Wang and Danilo Udovicki-Selb. Austin, TX: The University of Texas at Austin, 2015 (forthcoming)
“Two Utopias of Georgii Krutikov’s City of the Future,” WRITING CITIES. Working Papers Volume 2. DISTANCE AND CITIES: Where do we stand? London: London School of Economics and Political Science, 2012, 46-56
“Shaping Eternity: the Preservation of Lenin’s Body,” Thresholds, no.38 (2011), 10-13
“The Transformation of the Concept of the Old English Garden and Interpretations of Garden History during the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries,” in the Studies in the History of Gardens & Designed Landscapes, Oct.-Dec. 2006, Vol. 26, No. 4, 267-274
SCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONS IN RUSSIAN
“Tsentral’nyj park kultury imeni Gorkogo v proektakh studentov VKhUTEINa” (“Gorky Central Park of Culture and Leisure in VKhUTEIN student projects”), Proceedings of the International Conference “Space of VKhUTEMAS.” Moscow: Publishing department of Moscow Stroganov Academy of design and applied art, 2010, 72-73
“Obrazy Italii v angliiskom sadovom iskusstve rubezha XIX-XX vekov” (“Italian Imagery in British Garden Art of the Turn of the Twentieth Century”), Kul’tura, epokha i stil’: klassicheskoe iskusstvo Zapada (Culture, Epoch, and Style: Western Classical Art). Moscow: Galart, 2010, 307-323
“Shestnadtsatiy vek – period formirovania britanskogo sadovogo iskusstva” (“Sixteenth Century – the Period of the Formation of British Garden Art”), Zapadnaya Evropa, shestnadtsatiy vek: tsivilizatsia, kultura, iskusstvo (Western Europe, the Sixteenth Century: Civilization, Culture, Art). Moscow: URSS, 2009, 246-265
“Puteshestvie Eduarda Andre v Rossiju i ego proekt parka usadby Semenovkoe-Otrada” (“The Journey of Edouard André to Russia and his Project for the Park of Semenovskoe-Otrada”), Iskusstvoznanie (Art History), #1, 2008, 154-165
“K voprosu o vlianii evropeiskoi khudozhestvennoi mysli na rossiyskoe sadovoe iskusstvo kontsa 19 – nachala 20 vekov” (“The Problem of Influence of European Artistic Thought on Russian Garden Art of the Late-Nineteenth – Early-Twentieth Century”), in Russkaya usadba. Sbornik obzhestva izuchenia russkoi usadby. (Russian Country – Estate. Annual of the Society for Studying Russian Country – Estate) Fasc. 11. Moscow: Zhiraf, 2006, 150-58
“Stilisticheskie aspecty britanskogo sadovogo iskusstva kontsa 19 – nachala 20 vekov” (“Stylistic Aspects of the Late-Nineteenth – Early-Twentieth Century British Gardening”), Ezhegodnik aspirantskikh rabot Gosudarstvennogo Instituta Iskusstvoznania ( Annual of the State Institute’s of Art Research Post-graduate Students’ Articles. 2004). Moscow: SIAR Press, 2005, 44-56.
“Sintez arkhitektury i sadovogo iskusstva v tvorchestve Reginalda Blumfelda” (“The Synthesis of Architecture and Garden Art in the Works of Sir Reginald Blomfield”), Prostranstvo i vremia voobrazhaemoi arkhitekturi. Sintez iskusstv i rozhdenie stilia. Sbornik Tsaritsinskogo museia. (Space and Time of Imaginary Architecture. Artistic synthesis and the birth of Style. The Annual of the Tsaritsyno Museum), Fasc. 7-8. Moscow: Probel-2000, 2005, 276-288.
EDITED PUBLICATIONS
Section editor “Soviet Modernist Architecture (1917-1991)” in Architectural Theory: A Global Perspective. Nnamdi Elleh, General Editor, Princeton Architectural Press, NJ, forthcoming in 2015 (co-edited with Danilo F. Udovicki-Selb)
In the Distance *research-in-progress 2010. Cambridge, MA: Puritan Press, 2011 (co-edited with Ana Maria Leon)
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
“Architecture of the Unconscious: ‘Psychoanalytical Method’ at VKhUTEMAS,” Society of Architectural Historians Annual Convention, Austin, April 2014
“‘Montage and Architecture’: Movement and Rhythm in the Architectural Theory of Soviet Rationalism,” Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies Annual Convention, New Orleans, November 2012
“From Analysis to Synthesis: Soviet Modernist Architecture as Organization,” Design, History, Revolution, New School of Design, April 2012
“The Red and the Green: Ozelenenie Campaign in the USSR (1931),” Color Green, University of Virginia Art History Department Graduate Student Symposium, March 2011
“Long Live Individuality! Psychotechnics and Architectural Pedagogy in Soviet Russia,”
Teaching Architecture Practicing Pedagogy, SoA, Princeton University, February 2011
“Central Park of Culture and Leisure in Ladovskii’s Workshop’ Student Projects: Space as a Movement,” The Space of VKhUTEMAS: Heritage, Traditions, Innovations, Moscow Institute of Architecture (MARHI), November 2010
“People’s Park: The Agency of the Public and Landscape Architecture in the Late-Stalinist USSR,” Architecture and the State, 1940s-1970s, GSAPP, Columbia University, April 2010
“Revolution at a Standstill: The Preservation of Lenin’s Body,” Explosive Past, Radiant Future, The Centre for Comparative Literature at the University of Toronto, March 2010
“A Post-Utopian Landscape: Disurbanist Projects for Gorky Park of Culture and Rest,” Avant-garde and Totalitarianism Revisited: Soviet Visual Culture, 1920s-1940s, Northwestern University, March 2010
“‘Landscape Dis-Urbanism’: Moisei Ginzburg’s Project for the Central Park of Culture and Rest and the Problem of Socialist Landscape,” New England Chapter, Society of Architectural Historians Student Conference, February 2010
“On the Origins of Parks of Culture and Rest, or Why Avant-Garde Did Not Flourish in Soviet Gardens,” What site?” *research-in-progress Graduate Student Conference, MIT, April 2009
“The Gardens of Sir Reginald Blomfield: Realizing a Vision of the National Past,”
The Edwardians, University of Hertfordshire, July 2006
“Between Science and Poetry: Popular Botany in the Victorian Period,” INCS (Interdisciplinary
Nineteenth Century Studies) International Conference 2006, Durham University, July 2006
“The Concept of the Old English Garden in the Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century Historiography,” XVI Graduate Art History Symposium, Indiana University, Bloomington, April, 2006
“Sir Reginald Bloomfield i rossiyskoe i evropeiskoe sadovoe iskusstvo (Sir Reginald Blomfield and Russian and European Gardening),” Mezhdunarodnaya konferentsia molodikh uchenykh Lomonosov-2004 (International Conference of Young Scholars Lomonosov -2004), Moscow State University, May, 2004
“Angliyskie sady kontsa 19 – nachala 20 vekov (English Gardens of the Late-Nineteenth – Early-Twentieth Century),” Mezhdunarodnaya konferentsia molodikh uchenykh Lomonosov-2003 (International Conference of Young Scholars Lomonosov -2003), Moscow State University, May, 2003
LECTURES
“The Energy of Color: Wallpainting and the Modernist Subject in the USSR, 1928-1932,” Getty Research Institute, March 2013
“Landscape as Experience: Rationalist Movement in Soviet Architecture, 1919-1941,” Dumbarton Oaks Research Library, October 2011
WORKSHOPS PARTICIPATION
Writing Cities, London School of Economics, May 2011.
Urban Visual Studies, St. Louis, June 2008 (Part 1); Milwaukee, September 2008 (Part 2)
DISSERTATIONS ADVISED
Olga Frolova, “Harold A. Peto and the Emergence of Landscape Design in Early-Twentieth-Century Britain,” Department of Classical Western Art, State Institute of Art Research, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow (in progress)
ACADEMIC SERVICE
Member-at-large at the Society of Historians of East-European, Eurasian, and Russian Art (SHERA), November 2012- November 2013
Co-organizer of In the Distance, “*research-in-progress” Graduate Student Conference, MIT, February 2010
ASSOCIATIONS
Society of Architectural Historians (SAH)
Society of Historians of East-European, Eurasian and Russian Art and Architecture (SHERA)
Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES)
Moscow Academic Committee for the Preservation of the VKHUTEMAS Legacy
World Monuments Fund: Site representative for Semenovskoe-Otrada country-estate in the World Monuments Watch list of 100 Most Endangered Sites of 2006
