Heather S. Sonntag 
 

Adresses

• Courriel

Statut actuel

• Ph.D. Candidate.

• “Photography and Mapping Russian Conquest in Central Asia: Early Albums, Encounters and Exhibitions, 1866-1876,” University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Languages and Cultures of Asia (LCA), tentative Fall 2008

Diplômes

M.A., 2003, University of Wisconsin-Madison (LCA).

M.A. Thesis: Tracing the ‘Turkestan Series’ - Vasily Vereshchagin's Representations of Late-19th-century Central Asia

B.A, 1994, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA

Majors: Asian Studies, English Literature; Minor: Chinese Mandarin

Postes/ Projets / Bourses / Mandats

2006              William J. Fulbright Fellow, Russia

2006               (Declined) IREX-IARO, Uzbekistan

2005               Vilas Travel Grant, UW-Madison

2005               Scott Kloeck-Jensen Short-Term Travel Grant (Russia), UW-Madison

2004               Summer, FLAS – Russian, Middlebury College

2002-03          FLAS – Persian, UW-Madison

2000-01          FLAS – Kazakh, UW-Madison

2001               Summer, FLAS – Kazakh, Intl School of Business, Almaty, Kazakhstan

Awards & Recognition

2006    Teaching Recognition by UW-Muslim Student Association

1993    Phi Beta Kappa

1993    Honors Asian Studies & English Literature, UPS

1992, 1993 Honors Chinese Language, UPS

Internships

2005 Summer: Library of Congress-Prints & Photographs Division, Washington, DC. Digital Archive Project for PPOC. Transliterated and translated all text of Turkestanskii al’bom and Tipy narodnostei srednei azii

1999 March—May: The Asia Society, New York, NY. Dept. of Lectures & Symposia.

Member

Academic Advancement of American Slavic Studies (AAASS), since 2007.

Central Eurasia Studies Society (CESS), since 2004.

Visual Culture Graduate Student Focus Group, UW-Madison, since 2004.

Themes de recherches/ Mots-clefs

• Cultural History of Central Asia, Ancient Central Asian Civilization, Silk Road Studies; Colonial & Postcolonial Studies, Cultural Encounter; Early History of Photography, Albums, Russian and Central Asian photography, Rephotography; Turkestan Album; Semirechye, Kuldzha, Western Siberia.

Articles / Livres publies (sélection)

Presentations

American Culture Studies: A Photographic History. US Embassy Workshop for

American Corner Staff, Medvezhegorsk, Karelia, Russia, May 31, 2007.

Early American Photography: A Survey Thru History. National Centre of Photography, Saint Petersburg, Russia, May 7, 2007.

Early American Photography: A Selected History. Mayakovsky Public Library, American Corner, Saint Petersburg, Russia, March 13, 2007.

Early Albums of Central Asia: 1866-1876. Research Report. Fulbright Conference, Moscow, January 31 2007.

Picturing Russian Conquest in Central Asia: Early Albums of Colonial Encounter. UW-Madison, March 2, 2006.

Everyday Central Asia (in photography). ‘Central Asia Day,’ Center for Russia, East Europe, and Central Asia (CREECA), UW-Madison, March 22, 2006.

Turkestanskii Al’bom 1871-1872 (A contents review). Library of Congress - Africa & Middle East, and Prints & Photographs Divisions, Washington, D.C., August 3, 2005.

Everyday Central Asia (in photography). ‘Central Asia Day,’ CREECA, UW-Madison, April 29, 2003.

Conference Paper

‘The Turkestan Album – A Brief Material Re-Orientation & Its Antecedents,’ for ‘Journées d’études sur l’Asie Centrale,’ Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris, October 26, 2007.

 ‘Re-viewing a Portrait of Empire in Central Asia: the Turkestan Album Exposed.’ 6^th Annual Central Eurasia Studies Society (CESS), Boston University, October 2, 2005.

Publications

Article. The Turkestan Album Unbound.  Forthcoming 2008.

Web-Translation. Turkestan Album (Foreword; captions and titles). Library of Congress-Prints & Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. October 2007.

http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/coll/287_turkestan.html

Review. Here is the Muse: Lectures [on Photography] by Deborah Turbeville. The St. Petersburg Times, March 30, 2007.