As an art historian, I have always had two aspirations – for museum work and for teaching. The lucky opportunity to satisfy them both was my tenure at the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia, where for about twenty years I held positions of a Senior Researcher and a Lecturer working for the Educational and Oriental Departments. In the USA I worked for the Springfield Art Museums, Mass. My teaching appointments included Institute for Oriental Studies and the Baltic University (St. Petersburg, Russia), NC State University (Raleigh, NC).

I specialize in Far Eastern, Central Asian and Russian art. My research is focused on ukiyo-e prints with a particular emphasis on the interpretation of historic subjects in this popular Japanese art form. At RISD I teach courses on Japanese Prints, the Art in the Oases on the Great Silk Road, and the Arts of Russia.

Phone #: (860) 376-6291

Affiliations:

• Japanese Art  Society of America,  New York, NY
• Society for Japanese Arts,  Amsterdam, the Netherlands
• Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies. Associate in Research, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
  

Degrees:
M.E. Hertzen Pedagogical Institute  (St. Petersburg, Russia)
M.A. Art History Seminar, the State Hermitage Museum (St. Petersburg, Russia).
Ph.D. State Academy of Art, Institute of Fine Arts (Moscow, Russia).