Anna Sokolina, PhD

Anna P. Sokolina is an architecture/art historian and educator. She published over seventy research papers, articles, abstracts and reviews in professional periodicals and initiated, co-authored and edited a monographic anthology Architecture and Anthroposophy. She lectured and curated art/architecture exhibitions in the United States, France, Germany, and Russia. Currently she is working on two book projects: Alternative Space, and Parallel Universe: Architecture behind the Iron Curtain.

Sokolina received her Ph.D. in Architecture from the Russian Academy of Architecture and Construction Sciences Research Institute for Theory of Architecture NIITAG, and M.A. from the Moscow Institute of Architecture. She is a Certificate graduate in Arts Administration from New York University, and she interned at the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, the Guggenheim Museum New York, and the Public Design Commission of the City of New York. She contributed as a docent at the Pierpont Morgan Library and a volunteer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art;worked as a Curator of Exhibitions at the Tabakman Museum of Art, a Research Associate at the Cultural Heritage Project funded by the Guggenheim Foundation, and as Assistant Professor at Miami University School of Fine Arts Department of Architecture and Interior Design where she also coordinated the Architecture Gallery. Sokolina extensively exhibited her own artwork in the US and Europe. Currently, she contributes on Advisory Board at ARTMargins, and as a Board Honorary Advisor of the International Archive of Women in Architecture facilitated at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University that also holds over sixty records of her publications and exhibition catalogs.