Christina Kiaer

Christina Kiaer is an art historian who specializes in Soviet art. Her current research project is “An Aesthetics of Anti-racism: African Americans in Soviet Visual Culture.” She is the Arthur Andersen Teaching and Research Professor at Northwestern University and, during this academic year, a Novo Nordisk Guest Professor at the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies at the University of Copenhagen. She is the author of Collective Body: Aleksandr Deineka at the Limit of Socialist Realism (Chicago, forthcoming 2022); Revolution Every Day: A Calendar (Mousse, 2017, co-authored with Robert Bird and Zachary Cahill); and Imagine No Possessions: The Socialist Objects of Russian Constructivism (MIT, 2005).