Doctoral Student in History; Museum Studies Certificate Program
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About
Albert Cavallaro recieved his Bachelor of Arts in History and English from The College of New Jersey in 2015. He then enjoyed a brief career as an "insurance archaeologist" before recieving a Master of Arts in Global Studies (Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies) from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill in 2019.
His current research focuses on the ways in which Russian provincial public museums functioned socially, ideologically, and historically during the second half of the 19th century. He seeks to go beyond a nationalistic framework in understanding the growth of museums to instead posit the ways in which religious thought, including narratives regarding nostalgia, death, and resurrection, may have also been present in the discursive realities surrounding the nineteenth-century musueal pioneers. More broadly, he is interested in the connections between the Russian provinces in the European parts of the empire and the colonies in Central Asia. For better or worse, he has recently begun reading the works of Nikolai Fedorov (1829-1903): a Russian thinker famous for the (im)modest goals of wanting to bring back all the dead and colonize the cosmos.
