Andrea Rusnock, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Visual Arts
K. Andrea Rusnock is an assistant professor of art history who earned her B.A in art history and political science from the University of Pittsburgh (1985), her M.A. in art history from the University of Pittsburgh (1989) and her Ph.D. in art history from the University of Southern California (2002). She specializes in Russian and Soviet art, in particular Socialist Realism of the Stalinist era. She has taught full-time and part-time at such varied institutions as Glendale Community College, Occidental College, UCLA Extension, Pasadena City College, the University of Pittsburgh and West Virginia State College. Ms. Rusnock has conducted research in Russia and Prague as well as having taught in Prague. The classes she teaches include Introduction to Western Art, Russian Art and Culture, Women in the Visual Arts, American Art and Non-Western Art among others. She sits on IU South Bend's Governing Board for Women's Studies, the Undergraduate Research Committee, the European Minor Studies Board, International Studies Program as well as other campus committees.
Prof. Rusnock's book, Fact or Fiction: Socialist Realist Paintings of Collectivization During the Stalinist Epoch, will be published in late 2010. She has several articles including one in a forthcoming anthology on Totalitarian Art and entries in the Russian Encyclopedia of History. Ms. Rusnock has reviewed books for journals and for publishers. She has been actively presenting her research on Soviet Socialist Realism in its varied guises at national conferences in recent years. She also has given presentations on art history in varied local venues such as at the Cassopolis Public Library and the South Bend Museum of Art.
While Prof. Rusnock does enjoy her South Bend surroundings she, along with her cats Boris and Vixen, do miss the Los Angeles sunshine come December.
