Recent and current research students

  • Eva Bezverkhny, ‘Soviet and French Film, Photography, and Architecture prior to World War II’, The Courtauld Institute of Art
  • Aleksandra Brenton-Virt, ‘Vrubel, Konchalovsky, and Roerich’, University of Cambridge, MPhil awarded in 2012
  • Dr Jennifer Brewin, ‘The Cultural Production of the Soviet Caucasus in the 1920s and 1930s’, University of Cambridge, PhD awarded in 2019
  • Natalia Budanova, ‘War not Peace: Russian Women Artists during World War I’, The Courtauld Institute of Art
  • Nicholas Bueno de Mesquita, ‘Architectural exchanges East and West. Publications, reception and contact, c.1905-1932’, The Courtauld Institute of Art
  • Elizaveta Butakova, ‘Beyond Paris-Moscow: Soviet Unofficial Art and the Journal A-Ya, 1979-1986’, The Courtauld Institute of Art
  • Dr Marie Collier, ‘Photography as Mediation: the Recording, Promotion, Interpretation, and Reception of Soviet Avant-Garde Architecture 1924-c1939’, The Courtauld Institute of Art
  • Dr Amy Digout, ‘Artful Diplomacy: Nicholas I’s New Hermitage in the Age of the Public Museum’, University of Cambridge, PhD awarded in 2010
  • Sofia Gurevich, The form and content of the early Soviet book: a study through the country’s publishing industry institutions of the 1920s and 1930s.
  • Dr Louise Hardiman, ‘The Firebird’s Flight: Russian Arts and Crafts in Britain, 1870-1917’, University of Cambridge, PhD awarded in 2015
  • Alexandra Keiser, ‘Alexander Archipenko and Cultural Exchange between the Wars: Avant-garde to Avant-gardism in the USA’, The Courtauld Institute of Art
  • Dr Maria Kokkori, ‘A Historical Contextualization of Selected Paintings by Kazimir Malevich, Ivan Kliun and Liubov Popova c. 1905-1925’, The Courtauld Institute of Art, PhD awarded in 2007
  • Dr Kamila Kocialkowska, ‘The Russian Avant Garde and Photographic Defacement under Stalin’, University of Cambridge, PhD awarded in 2020

  • Dr Nicola Kozicharow, ‘Dmitrii Stelletskii and Filipp Maliavin in Emigration’, University of Cambridge, PhD awarded in 2015
  • Agnes Kriza, ‘The Russian Icon in the Confessional Age’, University of Cambridge
  • Dr Galina Mardilovich, ‘Printmaking in Late Imperial Russia,’ University of Cambridge, PhD awarded in 2012
  • Dr Maria Mileeva, ‘Import and Reception of Western Art in Soviet Russia in the 1920s and 1930s: Selected Exhibitions and Their Role’, The Courtauld Institute of Art, PhD awarded in 2011
  • Dr Natalia Murray, ‘Proletarian Art and Civic Spectacle: Reflections of Proletarian Art in Festive Decorations in Petrograd. 1918-1924’, The Courtauld Institute of Art
  • Katerina Pantelides, ‘The Ballet Body: Stage, Screen and Fashion c.1920-50’, The Courtauld Institute of Art
  • Ksenia Pavlenko, ‘New Approaches to the Emergence of Nationalism in
    Finland as a Grand Duchy of the Russian Empire’, University of
    Cambridge, MPhil awarded in 2017
  • Emily Roy, ‘Modernization, cultural exchanges and innovation in Russian print culture: St Petersburg in the Talbot Collection’
  • Dr Nadim Samman, ‘Between the Gulag and the Guggenheim: (post) Soviet art and New York in the 1980s and 1990s’, The Courtauld Institute of Art, PhD awarded in 2011
  • Dr Andrey Shabanov, ‘Re-Presenting the Peredvizhniki: A Partnership of Artists in Late Nineteenth-Century Russia,’ The Courtauld Institute of Art, PhD awarded in 2013
  • Dr Maria Starkova-Vindman, ‘Engendering the New Soviet Child: the Representation of Children as Pioneer Citizens of the USSR (1922-1941)’, The Courtauld Institute of Art
  • Isabel Stokholm, ‘Fathers & Sons? Uncovering cross-generational relations in the Russian Art World, 1880-1923’, University of Cambridge
  • Dr Jordan Tobin, ‘Kazimir Malevich’s Suprematist Dialogue with Italian Futurism’, The Courtauld Institute of Art
  • Dr Cinthia Willaman, ‘Sonia and Robert Delaunay’s Artistic Exchange with Russian Artists of the International Avant-Garde 1905-1914’, University of Cambridge, PhD awarded in 2019