William Craft Brumfield

WILLIAM CRAFT BRUMFIELD is Professor of Slavic Studies and Sizeler Professor of Jewish Studies at Tulane University. Elected in 2006 to the Russian Academy of the Fine Arts. Author and photographer of numerous books on Russian architecture. Recipient of fellowship and grant support from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the National Humanities Center, the National Endowment for the Humanities, IREX, the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies (Woodrow Wilson Center), the American Council of Teachers of Russian, the National Council for Eurasian and East European Research, the Kress Foundation, the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, and the Trust for Mutual Understanding. His photographs (primarily Russian architecture) have been exhibited at museums in the US and Russia. The basic collection of his photographic work is held in the Department of Images Collections at the National Gallery of Art.