Dr Antonia Miejluk

Antonia Miejluk is Lecturer in Photographic History within the Faculty of Arts, Design and Humanities, and teaches on the History BA and the Photographic History MA programmes. Prior to joining DMU, Antonia taught at Durham University and the University of Derby.

Antonia is a specialist in photographic history, with interests in Soviet visual culture and amateur practices. Her research has examined snapshot photography in interwar Russia, shedding light on how Soviet citizens used the camera and the medium of the photograph album as instruments of self-fashioning.

Antonia holds a BA in History from the University of Oxford and an MA in Modern History from Durham University. She completed her Leverhulme-funded PhD at Durham University in 2023. 

• Institute of History
• Photographic History Research Centre

'Beyond the Caption: Words and Images in an Interwar Soviet Amateur Photograph Album' in Ludmilla Jordanova and Florence Grant (eds.), Where Words and Images Meet (London: Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2024)

• Photographic history
• Visual and material culture
• The Soviet Union
• Histories of everyday life and experience
• Cultural history

• History of photography
• Photographic ethics
• Social and cultural history
• Historiography and methodology

• BA (Hons) History, University of Oxford, 2015
• MA Modern History, Durham University, 2017
• PhD History and Visual Culture, Durham University, 2023

I lead the undergraduate modules 'Photography and Conflict' and 'Global Cities', and the postgraduate module 'Photography, Ethics and Emotions'. In addition, I contribute to other modules across the BA History.

Early Career Member, Royal Historical Society

• 'Soviet Snapshooters: Amateur Photography and Leisure in Interwar Soviet Russia', Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies Virtual Annual Convention, online, 5-8 and 14-15 November 2020
• 'Ideology, Identity, and the Snapshot Camera: Representing the Self in the Interwar Soviet Union', Durham-Münster Workshop, WWU Münster, Germany, 1-2 November 2019
• 'Identities in Focus: Snapshot Photography in the Interwar Soviet Union', Annual Conference of the Canadian Association of Slavists, University of British Columbia, Canada, 1-3 June 2019
• ‘Happy Families? Approaching the Interwar Soviet Union Through a Lens of Family Photography’, Visual Intersections 3, Durham University, 11-13 July 2018
• ‘Exposed Identities: Exploring Female Self-Representation in the Interwar Soviet Family Snapshot Album’, Women, Art, Visibility: The Workshop, Durham University, 12 June 2018