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AND BACK AGAIN. Dr. Rusnock reflects her research journey in her keynote speech at this year’s Faculty Research Celebration, highlighting faculty research from 2024.
By: Emmalee Anglemyer
Layout Manager, Staff-Writer
Following “lighting talks” from multiple professors at the March 6 Faculty Research Celebration, Dr. Andrea Rusnock gave a speech called “From Stalin to the Czar and Back Again”, cataloging and reflecting on her research journey after winning the 2024 Distinguished Research Award at IU South Bend.
Known affectionately by students as Dr. R, Rusnock teaches about a wide variety of art history subjects. However, in her personal research, she focuses heavily on Russian art history and especially representations of women. She also takes interest in textile art, like needlework.
“I am deeply honored that my colleagues hold my research in such high regard,” Dr. Rusnock said in an IU News feature. “I believe my research has broadened the understanding of Russian and Soviet art and material culture both within my discipline and academia writ large. Expanding what is considered acceptable art to research allows a broader swath of the public to take an interest in this scholarship.”
In addition to many academic journal articles, Dr. Rusnock has published a book about Socialist Realist Painting during the Soviet Stalinist period and is working on another about Soviet women during World War II.
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