America as Emblem of Modernity in Russian Architecture, 1870-1917

William C. Brumfield is a Professor of Slavic Studies at Tulane University, where he also lectures at the School of Architecture. He has received Fellowships and grants from: the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), the National Humanities Center, the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies (at the Woodrow Wilson Center), the American Council of Teachers of Russian, the National Council for Eurasian and East European Research, the International Research and Exchanges Board, the Kress Foundation, the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, and the Trust for Mutual Understanding. He is the recipient of the 1997 Faculty Research Award from the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Tulane University. In April 2002 Brumfield was elected to the State Russian Academy of Architecture. Recently NEH awarded him a major grant, via the University of Washington, for the electronic archiving of the Brumfield photographic collection. Professor Brumfield was a fellow at the National Humanities Center in 1992-93 and a Guggenheim Fellow in 2000-01. He is the author and photographer of numerous books on Russian architecture including: The Origins of Modernism in Russian Architecture, Lost Russia: Photographing the Ruins of Russian Architecture; and A History of Russian Architecture, which the New York times Book Review included in its "notable books of the year 1993." Brumfield's photographs of Russian architecture, which have been exhibited at numerous galleries and museums around the world, are part of the collection of the Photographic Archives at the National Gallery of Art. Washington, D.C. A collection is also held in the Prints and Photographs Division of the Library of Congress and displayed at the following LC site: http://frontiers.loc.gov/intldl/mtfhtml/mfdigcol/ mfdcphot.html. Recently he was elected to the Russian Academy of Arts and will be inducted into the academy as an honorary (non-Russian) member.