Faculty

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Christina Kiaer (Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1995) teaches twentieth-century art, specializing in Russian and Soviet art, the politics of the avant-garde, and feminist theory and art. Her book Imagine No Possessions: The Socialist Objects of Russian Constructivism (MIT Press) appeared in 2005, as did an interdisciplinary volume of essays on Soviet cultural history that she co-edited with Eric Naiman, Everyday Life in Early Soviet Russia: Taking the Revolution Inside (Indiana University Press), in which her essay “Delivered From Capitalism: Nostalgia, Alienation and the Future of Reproduction in Tret'iakov's I Want a Child! ” also appeared. Her current research focuses on the problem of Soviet Socialist Realism within the history of modern art; an article from this project, “Was Socialist Realism Forced Labor? The Case of Aleksandr Deineka,” appeared in the fall of 2005 in the Oxford Art Journal . She served as consultant curator on the 2009 exhibition Rodchenko and Popova: Defining Constructivism at the Tate Modern Museum, London, for which she wrote an essay for the catalog entitled "His and Her Constructivism." She has held postdoctoral research grants from the Social Science Research Council, the Harriman Institute at Columbia University, The George A. and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation, the International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX), the J. Paul Getty Foundation, and the American Philosophical Society, among others. At Columbia University, where she taught prior to coming to Northwestern, she was the recipient of the Phillip and Ruth Hettleman Award for junior faculty who have distinguished themselves as teachers and who demonstrate serious scholarly potential.

c-kiaer@northwestern.edu

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