Anna Sokolina, PhD

Anna Sokolina is an architecture/art historian, tenure-track Assistant Professor at Miami University School of Fine Arts Department of Architecture and Interior Design. Sokolina received her Ph.D. in Architecture from the Russian Academy of Architecture and Construction Sciences Research Institute for Theory of Architecture, and M.Arch. from the Moscow Architectural Institute. 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 Art Commission of the City of New York. She worked as a Curator of Exhibitions at the Tabakman Museum of Art, a docent at the Pierpont Morgan Library, and a Research Associate at the Cultural Heritage Project funded by the Guggenheim Foundation and J.Rothschild Foundation. Currently, she contributes as a Board Editor at ARTMargins funded by the University of California at Santa Barbara, a volunteer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and a Board Honorary Advisor of the International Archive of Women in Architecture facilitated at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University that also holds over fifty records of her publications and exhibition catalogs.

Sokolina published over seventy research papers, articles and reviews in professional magazines and initiated, edited, co-authored and co-designed a monographic anthology Architecture and Anthroposophy. She lectured and curated art and architectural exhibitions (12 traveling and 8 permanent) and delivered 45 talks at professional conferences in the United States, France, Germany, and Russia.