Alison L. Hilton is the Wright Family Professor of Art History, Emerita. Her major areas of research and publication are Russian and Soviet art, with a strong secondary interest in Central and Eastern European art. She has taught courses in Russian art, modern European and American art; seminars on such topics as: Matisse, New Realism, Iconography of Modern Art, Modern Art and Public Issues, Art and Literature in the Late 19th Century, Art of the 1930s, Twentieth Century Women Artists, Cultural Cannibalism, Art Confronting Difference, Myth and Modern Art, Art of the 21st century, American Images, The Russian Avant-Garde, and Themes in Russian and East European Art. She developed the M.A. Art and Museum Studies Program and its core course, Museum Studies Foundations. She has held fellowships for research in Russia and Germany. Hilton's publications include a book on Russian Folk Art and articles and chapters on Impressionism, nonconformist art, women artists and gender issues in Soviet art, and studies of individual artists.