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Christina Kiaer is The Arthur Andersen Teaching and Research Professor of Art History at Northwestern University, where she teaches global modern art and visual culture in the twentieth century, specializing in the Soviet Union and international socialism. She is the author of Imagine No Possessions: The Socialist Objects of Russian Constructivism (MIT Press, 2005); co-editor, with Eric Naiman, of Everyday Life in Early Soviet Russia: Taking the Revolution Inside (Indiana University Press, 2005), and co-author, with Robert Bird and Zachary Cahill, of Revolution Every Day: A Calendar (Milan: Mousse Publishing, with the Smart Museum of Art, 2017). Her book Collective Body: Aleksandr Deineka at the Limit of Socialist Realism will be published by University of Chicago Press in January 2024. She is currently completing the project “Aesthetics of Anti-racism: Black Americans in Soviet Visual Culture,” from which she has published several articles, most recently “Resisting Amerikanizm through Racial Solidarity: Black Skin, 1931,” in Detroit–Moscow–Detroit: An Architecture for Industrialization, 1917–1945 (MIT Press, forthcoming August 2023).