Biography
Ksenia Un is an art historian specializing in modern and contemporary Eurasia. She is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Art History and Visual Culture at Denison University. Her first book project examines how visual culture shaped understandings of diversity in the course of the late Russian Empire’s eastward expansion. Prior to completing her PhD, Ksenia held positions at the American Federation of Arts, International Center of Photography, and Guggenheim Museum.
Degree(s)
BA in Art History and English, Baruch College, City University of New York; MPhil in History of Art and Architecture, University of Cambridge; MA in Art History & Visual Studies, Cornell University; PhD in Art History & Visual Studies, Cornell University
Learning & Teaching
Courses
- AHVC 111 | Late 19th - 21st Century Art & Visual Culture
- AHVC 240 | MENA 250 | INTL 250 | Orientalisms
- AHVC 240 | INTL 250 | Aesthetics of Global Communism
- AHVC 399 | Seeing Race
Academic Positions
- 2025-Present - Assistant Professor, Department of Art History and Visual Culture, Denison University, Granville, OH
- 2024-2025 - Virginia and Walter Nord Postdoctoral Fellow, Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH
Works
Publications
- “Techniques of Whiteness in Photographs from the Late Russian Empire,” Art History 49.1, 2026.
- “Time and ‘Types’: Mining Modernism in Photographs from Imperial Khiva and Turkestan,” Modernism/modernity 32.4, November 2025.