Ramina Abilova

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Ramina Abilova

Associate Professor, Senior Researcher

Expertise and interests
history of photography, Soviet history, history of everyday life.

Work experience
01/10/2019 – 30/06/2022 Senior Lecturer, The Kazan State Institute of Culture
01/09/2019 – 31/01/2022 Curator of Photography, The State Museum of Fine Arts of Tatarstan Republic
01/09/2015 – 31/01/2022 Senior Researcher, The State Museum of Fine Arts of Tatarstan Republic
01/09/2015 – 31/12/2018 Head of Photo Laboratory, The State Museum of Fine Arts of Tatarstan Republic

Education
2021 - Internship "Photography in Contemporary Museum Practices" State Museum of Fine Arts, State Hermitage, PhotoDepartment (Moscow, St. Petersburg)
2021 - Internship "Current Approaches to the Studying and Teaching of Social and Humanitarian Disciplines" European University at St. Petersburg (St. Petersburg, Russia)
2018 - Visiting Scholar, History Department, Duke University (Durham, United States)
2017 - PhD in History, Kazan Federal University (Kazan, Russia)
2012 - Specialist, Institute of History, Kazan Federal University (Kazan, Russia)

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Originally published in English:

Abilova, R. (2019), Photographic Collections in Post-Soviet Russia and the development of Russian Photographic Scholarship, Photography and Culture, 12 (2): 273-278;

Abilova, R., Krasheninnikova, T. (2016), Architectural history of Kazan city in photographs (by Frank Whitson Fetter), Proceedings of the International Conference “Inter-photography and architecture,” Spain: Universidad de Navarra, Vol. 2: 142-151.

Originally published in Russian:

·      Abilova, R., Krasheninnikova, T. (2022), “Scenes in the Soviet Russia. Summer of 1930”: Frank Fetter`s movie on his visit to the USSR, Herald of an Archivist, 4: 1025-1041;
·      Abilova, R. (2022), Henri Cartier-Bresson in TASSR, Gasyrlar Avaza - Echo of Centuries, 2: 100-105;
·      Abilova, R. (2021), Review of William Craft Brumfield`s book “Journeys through the Russian Empire: The Photographic Legacy of Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky” (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2020), Ab Imperio, 1: 266-272;
·      Abilova, R., Krasheninnikova, T. (2020), Trip of an American citizen Frank Whitson Fetter to the USSR: history of photographic collection at Duke University (1930), Herald of an Archivist, 4: 1184-1200;
·      Abilova, R. (2021), Review of Katherine M. H. Reischl`s book “Photographic Literacy Cameras in the Hands of Russian Authors” (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2018), Ab Imperio, 1: 358-366;
·      Abilova, R. (2020), William Craft Brumfield in Kazan: 1985-2003, Gasyrlar Avaza - Echo of Centuries, 4: 22-35;
·      Abilova, R. (2020), Museums and photography in contemporary Russian historiography, Proceedings of the State Hermitage Museum, 243-250;
·      Abilova, R. (2019), School, “Moskvich” and Dad. Bugulma in the 1960s in photographs taken by boy Sasha Strelnik, Inde, March 19, available online: https://inde.io/article/19039-shkola-moskvich-i-papabugulma-1960-h-godov-v-fotografiyah-malchika-sashi-strelnika (accessed December 7, 2022);

· Abilova, R., Krasheninnikova, T. (2017), Family photo archive. Research methods: guide book, Kazan: Publishing house of Kazan Federal University.