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Maria Taroutina specializes in art from Imperial and early Soviet Russia. She is currently an Assistant Professor in Slavic Studies at Brown University, having previously served as an Associate Professor in the Humanities at Yale-NUS College in Singapore from 2013 to 2024. Taroutina received her PhD in History of Art from Yale University in 2013. She has published extensively, including her book 'Icon Square: Russian Modernism and the Russo-Byzantine Revival,' for which she was awarded the 2019 University of Southern California Book Prize in Literary and Cultural Studies by the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies. Additionally, she has co-edited volumes on topics such as Byzantine Method and Modernity, and is currently working on a new monograph titled 'Imperial Aesthetics: Art, Identity, and Representation in Russia's Age of Empire.' Her research has received funding from various institutions, including the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Paul Mellon Centre.
Department: Department of Economics