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Margaret Dikovitskaya

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Margaret Dikovitskaya
Earned her doctorate from Columbia University, New York in 2001, MarPh. D., Columbia University, New York, USA, 2001

Dissertation: “From Art History to Visual Culture: The Study of the Visual after

the Cultural Turn,” 2 volumes (sponsor: Keith P. Moxey)

M. Phil., Columbia University, New York, USA, 2000

J. Paul Getty Summer Institute on Art History and Visual Studies, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA, 1999

M. Ed., Columbia University, New York, NY, USA, 1999

Certificate, Postgraduate Program in History and Philosophy of Art and Architecture in Central Europe, Central European University, Prague, Czech Republic, 1993

B. A. / M.A. Magna cum Laude, Repin Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, St. Petersburg, Russia, 1991

Research Positions and Scholarships

May 2012 Visiting Research Scholarship, The Wolfsonian-Florida International University,

Miami Beach, Florida, USA

2011-2013 Prestige Visiting Research Fellowship, University of Free State, Bloemfontein,

South Africa (awarded)

2006-2007 Senior Research Fellowship, Collegium Budapest/The Institute for Advanced Study, Budapest, Hungary, EU

Fall 2005 Visiting Research Fellowship, Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

2004-2005 John W. Kluge Scholarship, Library of Congress, Washington, DC, USA

2003-2004 Killam Postdoctoral Fellowship, Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

2002 Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship, Graduate Department of History of Art, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada



Teaching and Research Interests

Theory, History and Pedagogy of Visual Culture Studies

Postcolonial and Postsocialist Studies

Art of the 20th and the 21st Centuries

Russian and Soviet Studies

History of Photography

Museum Studies



International Symposia, Guest Lectures, and Seminars

Annual Lecture, “Nonconformist Diaspora: Unofficial Soviet Art in the United States,” MoRA, Jersey City, New Jersey. 7 March 2014

Annual Lecture, “Sergei Prokudin-Gorskii, The Photographer to the People,” MoRA, Jersey City, New Jersey. 27 December 2012

Speaker, Fellow’s Seminars. Wolfsonian-Florida International University, Miami Beach, Florida. 30 April 2012 and 25 May 2012

Invited Keynote Lecturer, “Visual Culture Studies: Ten Years After,” Visual Studies: Questioning the Field/ Etudes visuelles: un champ en questions. English and American Studies Research Center/ Laboratoire de recherches sur les cultures anglophones, University Paris-Diderot (Paris 7), Paris, France. 21 October 2011

Invited Speaker, “Of Subjects and Objects of Visual Culture.” Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey. 30 June 2008

Invited Speaker, Visual Studies Initiative. Department of Art, Art History, and Visual Studies, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina. 16 October 2007

Speaker, Fellow’s Seminar. Collegium Budapest/The Institute for Advanced Study, Budapest, Hungary, EU. 28 June 2007

Speaker, “An Orientalist Debate in Russian Visual Culture,” Work-in-Progress Seminar. Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom. 2 November 2005

Invited Speaker, “Arguing with the Images.” New Horizons in Central Eurasian Studies Workshop, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan. 10 July 2005

Invited Speaker, “Visual Culture and Colonial Attitudes: Central Asia in Early Photographs.” The 2005 Summer Symposium on Regional and Transregional Dynamism in Ce

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