Nancy Condee is a professor at the University of Pittsburgh

University of Pittsburgh

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 in the Department of Slavic Languages

Slavic languages

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 and Literatures and served as the head of the Cultural Studies

Cultural studies

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 department from 1995 to 2006. Her field is contemporary Russian cinema

Cinema of the Soviet Union

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 and cultural politics

Politics of Russia

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Condee received her Ph.D.

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 at Yale University

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She is co-organizer, with Vladimir Padunov

Vladimir Padunov

Vladimir Padunov is an associate professor at the University of Pittsburgh in the Slavic Languages and Literatures Department and also serves as the associate director of the Film Studies Program....

, of the Pittsburgh Film Symposium, held each year in May at the University of Pittsburgh. Her most recent book, The Imperial Trace: Recent Russian Cinema, won the Society for Cinema and Media Studies'

Society for Cinema and Media Studies

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 Katherine Singer Kovacs Book Award. The book, published by Oxford University Press

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, focuses on contemporary Russian cinema.