Isabel Bailey

Isabel Bailey is a PhD student in the History, Theory, and Criticism of Architecture and Art program at MIT. She researches how design and visual culture of the Soviet era facilitated yet also challenged colonial expansion in the Soviet hinterlands. She is particularly interested in the ways Soviet cultural policies affected human and non-human ecologies across Siberia, the Bering Strait Region, and Central Asia. She earned her MA in the History of Art from The Courtauld Institute of Art and her BA in European Studies and Russian Language from the University of Vermont Honors College.