I am a PhD from the University of Cincinnati, specializing in Modern European History. My dissertation is “The Kshesinskaia Mansion: Elite Culture and the Politics of Modernity in Revolutionary Russia,” a biography of a house, once owned by an imper
...MoreI am a PhD from the University of Cincinnati, specializing in Modern European History. My dissertation is “The Kshesinskaia Mansion: Elite Culture and the Politics of Modernity in Revolutionary Russia,” a biography of a house, once owned by an imperial favorite and later the infamous headquarters of the Bolsheviks. My work is an examination of how different social classes’ competing visions of modernity played a part in the breakdown that was the Russian Revolution. My research focus is on the culture of late imperial Russia, with broad interest in how culture has expressed and refined ideas of identity.
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The Arts in Society
Interdisciplinary Social Sciences
