Joan Afferica

Professor

Joan Afferica is L.Clark Seelye Professor Emerita of History. Her research fields include elite formation in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Russia , politics of Soviet historiography, and Russian and Soviet imperial history. Her work on the formation of the Hermitage Collection of Russian Books and Manuscripts was published in the Soviet Union and Germany . Her eleven lectures (1995-1997) in the winter lecture series on Russian history and culture inaugurated at the Armory Palace in the Moscow Kremlin following the collapse of the Soviet Union led to the introduction for Smith students of a January inter-term course on Russian history and culture conducted on-site in the palaces, churches and museums of the Kremlin. She introduced in the West the work of the exiled Soviet artist E.P. Rozengolts with two exhibitions at The National Museum of Women in the Arts ( Washington , D.C. ) (1999) and The New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture (2001). Her translation of a book of reproductions of the Rozengolts works recently appeared in Moscow . She is currently completing a translation and commentary of S.M. Solov'ev's history of the uprising of Bogdan Khmelnitsky (1648-1657).

Phone: 413-585-3711
Office: Neilson Library B/09
Email: jafferic@email.smith.edu

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