About

I am the Director of Studies and Associate Senior Lecturer in the Committee on Degrees in History & Literature, and a Faculty Associate at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University.

Contact

Harvard students are invited to sign up for my office hours online. You can also contact me by email at kaminsky [at] fas.harvard.edu.
 

Teaching

As the instructor of record for sophomore, junior, and senior tutorials, I lead the tutorial system at the heart of History & Literature. I also teach seminars on topics such as Culture WarsRed Scares, and WWI in Fiction, Film, Poetry, and Memoir. In 2023-2024, I'm co-teaching HUM 90 with Robin Kelsey in the fall, and in the spring I'm teaching Queer Archives, an immersive research course taught inside the Schlesinger Library.

Research

I received my Ph.D. in History from New York University, and my research has been funded by Fulbright-Hays, SSRC, and NSEP. To learn more, read Utopian Visions of Family Life in the Stalin-Era Soviet Union. I also write about film for KinoKultura, Film Comment, and Reverse Shot.