Kirill Chunikhin
- Associate Professor:HSE Campus in St. Petersburg / School of Arts and Humanities / Department of History
- Research Fellow:HSE Campus in St. Petersburg / School of Arts and Humanities / Laboratory for Environmental and Technological History
- Kirill Chunikhin has been at HSE University since 2018.

Young Faculty Support Program (Group of Young Academic Professionals)
Category "Future Professoriate" (2020-2021)
Category "New Lecturers" (2019)
Courses (2021/2022)
- History of Art (Master’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 1 year, 3, 4 module)Eng
- Research Seminar (Master’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 2 year, 1-3 module)Eng
- Research Seminar (Master’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 1 year, 1-4 module)Eng
- Research Seminar - 1 (Bachelor’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 1 year, 1-4 module)Rus
- Rethinking the Cold War (Bachelor’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 4 year, 3 module)Eng
- The Cold War Beyond Politics (Master’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 2 year, 1, 2 module)Eng
- Past Courses
Courses (2020/2021)
- Academic English Writing (Bachelor’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 4 year, 1-3 module)Rus
- Academic Writing (Bachelor’s programme; Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Area Studies; 1 year, 3 module)Eng
- Cold War Encounters (Master’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 2 year, 1, 2 module)Eng
- History of Art (Master’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 1 year, 3, 4 module)Eng
- Modern Approaches to the Study of Art (Bachelor’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 3 year, 4 module)Rus
- Research Seminar (Master’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 2 year, 1-3 module)Eng
- Research Seminar (Master’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 1 year, 1-4 module)Eng
- Rethinking the Cold War (Bachelor’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 4 year, 3 module)Eng
Courses (2019/2020)
- Academic English Writing (Bachelor’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 4 year, 1-3 module)Rus
- Argumentation Theory and Academic Writing in English (Bachelor’s programme; Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Area Studies; 1 year, 3, 4 module)Eng
- Cold War Encounters (Master’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 2 year, 1, 2 module)Eng
- Cold War Encounters (Master’s programme; Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Area Studies; 2 year, 1, 2 module)Eng
- Research Seminar (Master’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 2 year, 1-3 module)Eng
- Research Seminar (Master’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 1 year, 1-4 module)Eng
- Rethinking the Cold War (Bachelor’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 4 year, 1, 2 module)Eng
Courses (2018/2019)
- Argumentation Theory and Academic Writing (Bachelor’s programme; Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Area Studies; 1 year, 2, 3 module)Eng
- History (Bachelor’s programme; St.Petersburg School of Economics and Management; 1 year, 3 module)Eng
- Research Seminar (Master’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 1 year, 1-4 module)Eng
- Sociological Theory (Bachelor’s programme; Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Area Studies; 1 year, 1-4 module)Rus
Publications11
- Article Chunikhin K. Art and Irreconciliation, or Cubist Ruptures of Soviet Postwar Aesthetics // Russian Review. 2022. Vol. 81. No. 1. P. 66-91. doi
- Article Chunikhin K. Risk and Respirators: The Hazardous Trajectories of Soviet Occupational Safety // Technology and Culture. 2022. No. 3. P. 65-99. (in press)
- Chapter Chunikhin K. Spells of Materialist Magic, or Soviet Children and Electric Power, in: The Pedagogy of Images: Depicting Communism for Children. University of Toronto Press, 2021. P. 265-298. doi
- Article Chunikhin K. Visual Art Experience during the Coronavirus Pandemic // Social Anthropology. 2020. Vol. 28. No. 2. P. 239-241. doi
- Article Чунихин К. А. Дилеммы Холодной войны в XXI веке / рец. на коллективную монографию "Советская культурная дипломатия в условиях Холодной войны. 1945-1989" // Ab Imperio. 2020. № 1. С. 366-374.
- Article Чунихин К. А. Нестрашные ужасы модернизма: эпизод из истории уродства периода оттепели // Новое литературное обозрение. 2020. № 2. С. 222-236.
- Article Chunikhin K. At Home among Strangers: U.S. Artists, the Soviet Union, and the Myth of Rockwell Kent during the Cold War // Journal of Cold War Studies. 2019. Vol. 21. No. 4. P. 175-207. doi
- Chapter Chunikhin K. “Painting and Sculpture at the American National Exhibition in Moscow, 1959: Defining Success of a Hot Art Show during the Cold War”, in: New Europe College Yearbook: Pontica Magna Program, 2015-2017. Bucharest : NEC, 2018. P. 191-216.
- Chapter Чунихин К. А. «Модерн и постмодерн» Клемента Гринберга, или апология модернизма в эпоху постмодернизма // В кн.: Актуальные проблемы теории и истории искусства III: сборник статей по итогам конференции. СПб. : НП-Принт, 2013. С. 515-520.
- Chapter Чунихин К. А. Американская национальная выставка в Сокольниках и Выставка достижений СССР в Нью-Йорке: история, семантика и кинорепрезентация двух выставок 1959 года // В кн.: Bulletin des DHI Moskau. Deutsches Historisches Institut Moskau, 2013. С. 109-127.
- Article Чунихин К. А. СКВОЗЬ ЖЕЛЕЗНЫЙ ЗАНАВЕС: РЕПРЕЗЕНТАЦИЯ ИЗОБРАЗИТЕЛЬНОГО ИСКУССТВА США В ЖУРНАЛЕ «АМЕРИКА» В ЭПОХУ ХОЛОДНОЙ ВОЙНЫ // Артикульт. 2012. № 8 (4). С. 20-38.
Conferences
- 2017Symposium “The Pedagogy of Images II: Depicting Communism for Children” (Принстон). Presentation: From Magic to Disenchantment: Experiments with Electricity in Soviet Children’s Books
- East-West Cultural Relations: Interplay of Arts and Cultural Diplomacy (Ювяскюля). Presentation: The Exhibition Graphic Arts: USA (1963-64), and the Evolving Approaches to Exhibiting Art in the Soviet Union during the Cold War
Conferences
2017 Symposium “The Pedagogy of Images II: Depicting Communism for Children” (Princeton University), “From Magic to Disenchantment: Experiments with Electricity in Soviet Children’s Books”
2017 Conference “East-West Cultural Relations: Interplay of Arts and Cultural Diplomacy, 1945–2017” (University of Jyväskylä, Finland), “The Exhibition Graphic Arts: USA, 1963–64, and the Evolving Approaches to Showcasing American Art in the Soviet Union”
2015 Charting Cubism across Central and Eastern Europe (organized by CAA and the Metropolitan Museum of Art), “Cubism and Soviet Art Criticism during the Cold War”
2013 Conference “Cultural Exchange: Russia and the West II” (University of Cambridge), “Exhibitions of American Visual Art in the USSR during the Cold War”
2013 Six-Day Boat-Conference “Modernity, Socialism and the Visual Arts” (MS Gretha von Holland), “American Visual Art and Soviet Art Criticism during the Cold War”
2013 Conference “Illustration in Print” (St. Petersburg, Russian National Library), “The Magazine Amerika and Representation of the US Visual Art in the Cold War USSR”
2013 Conference “100 Years of Abstraction” (Jacobs University, Bremen), “The reception of American Art in the Cold-War USSR.” (Also, chair of session “Post-War Approaches to Abstract Art”)
2012 Conference “Actual Problems of Art History and Theory” (St. Petersburg State University / Moscow State University), “Clement Greenberg and Evolution of ‘Historical Apology’ of Modernism”
2012 Conference “Art and Political Reality” (Kumumuseum, Tallinn), moderator of section “Instructions from Moscow”
2012 East-West Cultural Exchanges and the Cold War (University of Jyväskylä, Finland), “Reception of American Abstract Expressionism in Soviet Art-Criticism during the Cold War”
2012 Constructing the Soviet? Annual Conference, European University at Saint-Petersburg, “The Two Exhibitions of 1959: a dialogue or an ideological struggle? (Reconsidering the American National Exhibition in Moscow and the USSR Exhibition in New York)”
2011 VDNH (Vystavka Dostizhenii Nauchnogo Khoziaistva) Annual Conference, European University at St. Petersburg, “Clement Greenberg and the Institutionalization of American Abstract Expressionism”
Grants and Awards
2017 “Archival Summer”: one-month Research Stipend, the Garage Museum (Moscow)
2017 Terra Foundation Research Travel Grant to the United States
2016 Pontica Magna Fellowship at the New Europe College, Bucharest (10 months)
2016 German Historical Institute in Moscow, Research Stipend for Predoctoral Students
2015 EUSPb six-month Research Fellowship
2015 Leonard Lauder Travelling Grant for Participating in the Symposium “Charting Cubism”
2014 Terra Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship in American Art (12 months)
2013 Jacobs University one-year Research Grant
2013 EUSPb Alumni Travel Grant
2012 Summer School Grant (Centre for European Studies – EU Centre in Northwest Russia)
2012 EUSPb Alumni Travel Grant
2010 EUSPb Full Three-Year Fellowship
2007 Kuzbass Governor’s Grant for Socially Important Projects
2006 Medal “The Pride of Kuzbass”
"Cold War matters: the invisible economics of things"
On December 16th and 17th, the Laboratory for Environmental and Technological History and the History Department hosted the symposium titled "Cold War Matters: (In)Visible Economies of Things." The goal of the symposium was to look at the Cold War from a different angle, one that differed from politics and military. Instead the focus of the symposium was to look at the Cold War through consumer culture, art, science, industry, and the exchange of these things across the permeable Iron Curtain.
«Fighting a New Cult: Thing-Theory of Late Socialism» by Serguei Oushakine!
The second day of the international symposium Cold War matters: The (In) Visible Economies of Things, organized by the Laboratory of Environmental and Technological History, ended with a lecture by Russian-American cultural historian and anthropologist Sergei Alexandrovich Ushakin. Currently, he is an employee of the Department of Slavic Languages and Literature at Princeton University. His professional interests include family and gender identity, the consequences of cultural trauma and the collective memory of the Soviet past.