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Past Member

Michael Mitsuo Kunichika

Willis F. Doney Member; additional funding provided by the Herodotus Fund

Affiliation

Historical Studies

Field of Study

Russian and Soviet Culture
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Michael Kunichika pursues interdisciplinary approaches to the study of Russian and Soviet literature and culture, with a particular focus on the modernist period and the cinema of the silent era. His project will examine a range of discursive and visual materials—from novels, films, art historical accounts, and cartographic practices—in considering the values ascribed to archaeology in late socialist culture.

Dates at IAS

Member
School of Historical Studies

Degrees

University of California, Berkeley
Ph.D.
2007
Reed College
B.A.
1999

Appointments

Amherst College
2017
Associate Professor of Russian
Harvard University
2016–2017
Visiting Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures
New York University
2008–2015
Assistant Professor of Russian and Slavic Studies