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Social Sciences Division
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Social Sciences 1
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Social Sciences 1 Faculty Services
Harvard University, Social Anthropology, Ph.D., A.M.
Indiana University, Russian and East European Studies, M.A.
University of Tennessee, Russian and East European Studies, B.A.
Russia, Eastern Europe, Former Soviet Union; poverty and welfare; charity and philanthropy; social welfare and humanitarianism; religious charity; food politics; gardening and summer cottages; socialism and postsocialism.
Daily life in postsocialist Europe; Ethnography of Russia; changing social welfare systems, care work, ethics and practices of compassion; interfaith collaborations and faith-based assistance; changing food practices in late and postsocialist societies; nature, leisure, and the world of summer cottages and gardening; new modes of human rights and anti-discrimination practices in Russia; Russian-African relations.
Poverty and Inequality; Social Justice; International Development; Anthropology of Food; Consumption; Memory and Trauma.
- http://wpr.org/hereonearth/archive_110801k.cfm "The Dacha Days of Summer," Radio Interview on "Here on Earth," Wisconsin Public Radio, August 1, 2011
- http://english.ruvr.ru/radio_broadcast/28742746/52103899.html "Going Green for Summer," Radio Interview on Voice of Russia, June 19, 2011
- Why Food Matters: Critical Debates in Food Studies (Bloomsbury, 2021)
- Living Faithfully in an Unjust World: Compassionate Care in Russia (University of California Press, 2017)
- Dacha Idylls: Living Organically in Russia's Countryside (University of California Press, 2011)
- Food and Everyday Life in the Postsocialist World (Indiana University Press, 2009)
- Not by Bread Alone: Social Support in the New Russia (University of California Press, 2004)