CEU alumna and visiting faculty member Yulia Karpova (HIST, MA '09, PhD '15) was recently awarded a Marie Curie Individual Fellowship. The host institution is the School of Communication and Culture at Aarhus University.
During this 24-month Fellowship Yulia plans to do research on "biographies" of late Soviet objects through the areas of design, production, and consumption, as well as the influence of Scandinavian design in the Soviet Union in the 1950s-1980s. The research results will be used for expanding her dissertation into a book and for organizing exhibitions and other events in collaboration with museums.
Yulia received her PhD in History (summa cum laude) from CEU in 2015, with a dissertation on "Designer Socialism: The Aesthetic Turn in Socieltt Russia after Stalin".
Congratulations, Yulia!