Russian Life Advisory Board
Russian Life has an informal board of esteemed (and volunteer) advisors, with whom the editors consult on a variety of matters, from important anniversaries, to orthography, to factual and editorial quality. While we are happy to extend any measure of credit to these advisors for the quality of our editorial, any mistakes in content are entirely the fault of the magazine's editorial staff.
Members
Tatiana Bogomazova received her PhD in Anthropology from the Institute of Anthropology and Ethnography of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Kunstkammer), St. Petersburg. From 1992-1996 she was an Administrative Vice-President of the Scientific-Research Association "TASK," which organized academic programs and trips for specialists in the field of Slavic studies, mainly from the US and Japan. She has been involved in Web-based cultural projects since the early days of the internet in Russia. Working with museums, cultural institutions and publishing houses, she has experience in everything from site design through to testing, winning grants from the Soros and the Ford Foundations. In 2000 she was involved in the US Department of State's International Visitor Program and visited a number of North American museum's IT departments. Her projects were nominated for the Intel-Internet Prize of the National Internet Academy in 2000 and in 2001. Tatiana has also won a number of international scholarships and awards. Since 2001 she has been a member of the Executive Board of the Non-Profit Partnership "Automation in Museums and IT" (ADIT) and is committed to be its official representative in St.-Petersburg. Some of the projects she has headed up include: The official web site of the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Kunstkammer) [Nominated for Intel Internet Prize in 1999.]; The official web site of the Tzarskoe Selo Museum-Reserve. [Nominated for the Intel Internet prize in 2000.]; Web version of the magazine "Where Moscow" and "Where St.-Petersburg" - Russian National Tourist site for International Travellers, Web Site of the Amber Room Reconstruction Project; Web site "Veliky Novgorod for Travellers"; Registration system of museum images of Russia; Official web site of Russian jeweler Andrey Ananov.
John Bowlt is Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Southern California. He specializes in the history of late 19th and early 20th Century Russian art. This includes the careers of individual artists such as Bakst, Benois, Filonov, Kandinsky, Malevich, Somov and Tatlin and philosophical issues such as the concept of zero in the avant-garde and the occult dimension of Symbolism. He currently studies the material culture of Russia's Silver Age. His many publications include Laboratory of Dreams. The Russian Avant-Garde (Stanford University Press, 1996), The Salon Album of Vera Sudeikin-Stravinsky (Princeton University Press, 1995) and Khudozhniki russkogo teatra 1890-1930 (Moscow: Iskusstvo, 1994; in Russian).
Darra Goldstein, professor of Russian literature at Williams College, has published widely on Russian literature, culture, and art; her monograph on the poet Nikolai Zabolotsky appeared in 1993. She is the recipient of research grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Mellon Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies. The founding editor of Gastronomica: The Journal of Food and Culture, she is also the author of three cookbooks, including A Taste of Russia and The Georgian Feast (winner of the 1994 IACP Julia Child Award for Cookbook of the Year). Goldstein has served as a spokesperson for Stolichnaya Vodka and as a consultant for the Russian Tea Room and Firebird restaurants in New York. She is currently Food Editor of Russian Life magazine as well as General Editor of California Studies in Food and Culture (University of California Press). She graduated from Vassar College and received her Ph.D. from Stanford University.
Michael Katz is Dean of Language Schools and Schools Abroad at Middlebury College, in Middlebury, Vermont. He oversees nine intensive summer immersion language programs (including the Russian School), and seven overseas campuses (including the School in Russia). He is also a Professor of Russian in the Russian Department and teaches courses on 19th century Russian literature, Russian religion, and the art of translation.
Joan Neuberger is Professor of History and Director of the Russian, East European and Eurasian Center, University of Texas at Austin. She received her B.A. in Russian from Grinnell College and her Ph.D. in history from Stanford. Her teaching interests include modern Russia, nineteenth-century Europe, gender, film, and visual culture. She studies modern Russian culture in social and political context. Among her publications are Hooliganism: Crime, Culture and Power in St. Petersburg, 1900-1914 (1993); and Ivan the Terrible: The Film Companion (2003). She co-edited Imitations of Life: Two Centuries of Melodrama in Russia (2001) and produced the special-feature documentary, "The Politics and History of Ivan" for the Criterion Collection DVD, Eisenstein: The Sound Years.
Denise J. Youngblood, Professor of History, University Scholar, and Chair of the Department, received her Ph.D from Stanford University in 1980. She joined the faculty at the University of Vermont in 1988, after serving for six years as Assistant to the Executive Director of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies. Her areas of expertise include Russian and Soviet history, the history of modern Eastern Europe, visual culture and cultural theory, film and history, and cultural globalization. She has written extensively on Russian and Soviet cinema, including more than a dozen articles and four books, the most recent of which are The Magic Mirror: Moviemaking in Russia, 1908-1918 (University of Wisconsin Press, 1999) and Repentance: A Companion Guide I.B. Tauris, 2001). She is presently writing a book on Soviet war films. Dr. Youngblood currently serves on the Committee on the Status of Women of the AAASS and was a council member and past vice-president of the International Association for Media and History. She has also been a review editor for the Historical Journal of Film, Radio, & Television and the Soviet & Post-Soviet Review. Her many academic awards include the Kroepsch-Maurice Award for Excellent in Teaching at UVM, a Presidential Fellowship to the Salzburg Seminar, and the Heldt Prize for Best Book by Woman in Slavic Studies for her book Movies for the Masses: Popular Cinema and Soviet Society in the 1920's (Cambridge University Press, 1992).
