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Igor Demchenko
Igor Demchenko is a Teaching and Research Fellow at the University of Kassel, Germany. He received his Ph.D. in architectural history from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2015. He taught architectural history and historic preservation at Illinois Institute of Technology, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and Columbia University. His research has been supported by the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study, Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, Swiss Government Excellence Scholarship, the Canadian Centre for Architecture, Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture, and the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library. His publications and conference presentations explore the questions of non-Western architectural expertise, regional planning in the Soviet Union, and the problems of historic preservation in the Islamic world.