Isabel Bailey

Isabel Bailey is a PhD student in the History, Theory, and Criticism of Architecture and Art program at MIT. She researches how Soviet design and visual culture facilitated and 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 and Central Asia. Currently, she is exploring the Russo-Soviet sedentarization campaign of nomadic peoples as a process of design across Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Mongolia. 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.