Olga Tsapina, Ph.D.

Olga Tsapina, Ph.D., has been at The Huntington since 1998, before which she was the curator of the collection of Russian 18th-century printed and manuscript materials at the Division of Rare Books and Manuscripts at Moscow University Library. She holds her Ph.D. in history from the Moscow Lomonosov University, and her scholarly interests include comparative studies of religious Enlightenment, the history of autograph manuscript collecting in the United States, and correspondence networks in British America. Tsapina’s most recent exhibition at The Huntington was “The U.S. Constitution and the End of American Slavery.”