Margaret Samu is a historian of art and design based in New York City, where she teaches at Parsons School of Design and lectures at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Her work has been published in journals such as The Art Bulletin, Iskusstvoznanie, Nineteenth-Century Studies, Experiment, and a volume she co-edited, From Realism to the Silver Age (NIU Press, 2014). She served as president of the Society of Historians of East European, Eurasian, and Russian Art and Architecture (SHERA) from 2013 until 2015, and she currently co-organizes the art history section of the 19v Working Group on 19th-Century Russian Culture.