Maria V. Garth is a Ph.D. candidate in Art History, writing a dissertation about the history of Soviet photography in the twentieth century. She studies modern and contemporary art with a specialization in Russian and Soviet art and visual culture and the history and theory of photography. As a Dodge Avenir Fellow at the Zimmerli Art Museum, she works in the Department of Russian and Soviet Nonconformist Art to conduct research and organize exhibitions of the Norton and Nancy Dodge Collection of Nonconformist Art from the Soviet Union, including the recent exhibition Communism Through the Lens: Everyday Life Captured by Women Photographers in the Dodge Collection (2021). At Rutgers, Maria is a collaborator in The Developing Room, an academic working group that promotes interdisciplinary dialogue on photography’s history, theory, and practice. Maria earned an M.A. in Art History from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2018, where she completed her thesis titled “Memory and History in the Archive: Photographs of Political Dissidents in Forced Labor Camps in Late Nineteenth-century Siberia.” Her article, “Painting, Photography, and Radical Depictions of Gender: Franz Gertsch and Lissa Rivera,” appeared in SEQUITUR (vol. 6:1, 2019).