Dr. K. Andrea Rusnock
K. Andrea Rusnock
Associate of Professor of History
Wiekamp Hall, Room DW 2255
(574) 520-4577
krusnock@iu.edu
Mailing Address:
Department of History
Indiana University South Bend
1700 Mishawaka Avenue
PO Box 7111
South Bend, IN 46634-7111
Andrea Rusnock is a Professor of Art History at Indiana University South Bend. Her
areas of expertise are Russian and Soviet art and culture as well as world textiles. She received her BA degree in Political Science and Art History and MA degree in Art History from the University of Pittsburgh and her PhD in Art History from the University of Southern California. Andrea’s first book, Socialist Realist Painting During the Stalinist Era (1934-41): The High Art of Mass Art, was on images of Soviet collectivization in both high art and mass art. Her second book, which is forthcoming, Picturing Women in The Great Patriotic War: Soviet Women at the Front and at Home in Visual Culture During World War II, will analyze the various media in which Soviet women were shown during WWII. In addition, she has published several articles on Russian needlework as well as having edited an annual journal, Experiment/Эксперимент: A Journal of Russian Culture, that concentrated on Russian and Soviet fashion and textiles. Her most recent article was on
Soviet postage stamps of World War Two as part of a Festschrift. Andrea has received numerous grants for her scholarship and presents annually her research in various venues.