University of Chicago: Department of Anthropology: About the Department

University of Chicago Anthropologists who work in Eastern Europe, Russia, Western & Central Asia

Faculty
Students:
     Preparing for the field
     In the field
     Writing up
     Recent PhDs

Faculty:

Susan Gal - Hungary, Austria
Paul Friedrich - Mexico (Tarascan linguistics); Kerala, India; Germany; Russia & the Caucasus
Adam Smith (A) - Armenia / Southern Transcaucasia; Velikent, Southern Daghestan, Russia

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Students:

Preparing for the Field

Elizabeth Fagan (A) - Armenia, Greece, Asia Minor (Culture contact, imperial influences; architecture, building techniques; material culture)
Joseph Grim Feinberg - Eastern Slovakia/Central & Eastern Europe ("Valleys of Hunger, Cities of Shine: An Investigation into the Possibility of Folklore and Democracy at the 'End of History'")
Kathryn Franklin (A) - Caucasus, Eurasia, Asia Minor (Archaeology of long distance mobility, trade and pilgrimage; bioarchaeology; intersection of archaeology, history and folklore; relation between archaeology and museums; early medieval settlement archaeology of Armenia)
Owen Kohl - Southeast Europe; former Yugoslavia, Croatia (Ethnmusicology, media, hip hop culture, politics of representation, anthropology of borders, ethnographic film, why hip hop resonates with young people in vastly different cultural contexts)
Maureen Marshall (A) - Caucasus, Southwest Asia ("Cemeteries and Citadels: A Bioarchaeological Investigation of Late Bronze Age Society [1500-1200 BC] in the Tsaghkahovit Plain, Armenia")
Erin Pappas - Russia, Ukraine, Crimea (Language ideology, code-switching, gay pride, activism, discourses about language; emergence of Gay Pride parades in East Europe and the planning process emanating from Western Europe)
Nelly Samoukova - Russia (Ritual and religion, folklore, shamanism, symbolism)
Tatiana Tchoudakova - Russia/Siberia/Buryatia/Mongolia (Medical anthropology, Russian healthcare system, Buryat medical practices/Tibetan medicine; conceptions of the body and health, death and dying; linguistic anthropology, language and ethnicity)

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In the Field

Alan Greene (A) - Caucasus, Asia Minor, Eurasia; "The Social Lives of Pottery in the Plain of Flowers: An Archaeology of Late Bronze Age Ceramic Production and Exchange in Tsaghkahovit, Armenia")
Brian Horne - Russia; Mass media, aesthetics, audio technology, music; " 'Save Our Souls': Russian Bards and the ‘Sound' of State Transformation"
Larisa Jasarevic - Bosnia; "An Intimate Debt: Health, Wealth and the Making of a New Bosnian State"
Marina Mikhaylova - Lithuania/Western Russia; "Nation-State and the Politics of Youth in Contemporary Lithuania"

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Writing Up

Gretchen Bakke - Lubljana, Slovenia; "Contemporary Slovene Art and Artifice"
Andrew Gilbert - Prijedor, Bosnia-Herzegovina; "State-Making/State-Breaking: Returning Refugees, NGOs, and the Political Geography of Bosnia/Herzegovina"
Andrew Graan - Skopje, Macedonia; "Watching the World Watch: The Mass News Media and Political Authority in the Republic of Macedonia"
Mary Fran Heinsch (A) - Dagestan & Azerbaijan; "Technological Networks: Understanding Technical Variation in Kura-Araxes Period Ceramics as Evidence for Community Interaction in the Eastern Caucasus"
Stephen Hibbard (Ling) - Chocholow, Poland; "Iconic Communities: Linguistic Practice, Cultural Performance, and Ideologies of Nationhood in the Polish Highlands"
Carolyn Mork - St. Petersburg, Russian; "States of Care: Gender, Morality, and the Politics of Health Care in Post-Soviet Russia"
Justine Buck Quijada - Buryatia/Irkutsk, S. Siberia; "The Identity of Religion in Post-Soviet Buryatia"
Brian Schwegler - Kamarno, Slovakia; " ‘Confronting the Devil': Europe, Nationalism, and Municipal Governance in Slovakia"

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Recent PhDs

David Altshuler - Olomouc, Czech Republic; "Anchors of Identity: Property, Morality and Difference in Czech Society"
Keith Brown - Skopje & Krushevo, Macedonia; "Of Meanings and Memories: The National Imagination in Macedonia"
Krisztina Fehervary - Dunaujvaros & Budapest, Hungary; "In Search of the Normal: Material Culture and Middle-Class Fashioning in a Hungarian Steel Town, 1950-1997"
Clementine Creuziger Fujimura - Leningrad/St. Petersburg, Russia; "Childhood in Russia: Representation and Reality"
Jessica Greenberg - Belgrade, Novi Sad & Nis, Serbia; "Citizen Youth: Student Organizations and the Making of Democracy in Post-socialist Serbia"
Alaina Lemon - Moscow, Russia; "Indic Diaspora, Soviet History, Russian Home: Political Performances and Sincere Ironies in Romani (Gypsy) Cultures"
Dale Pesmen - Omsk, Siberia; "The Russian Soul: Ethnography & Metaphysics"
David Peterson (A) - Samara, Russia; "Changing Technologies and Transformation of Value in the Eurasian Steppes and Caucasus, ca 3500-1000 BC"
Laura Popova (A) - Samara, Russia; "Political Pastures: Navigating the Steppe in the Middle Volga Region (Russia) During the Bronze Age"
Stephanie Platz - Everan, Armenia; "Pasts and Futures: Space, History and Armenian Identity 1988-1994"
Jennifer Rayport Rabodzeenko - St. Petersburg, Russia; "Creating Elsewhere, Being Other: The Imagined Spaces & Selves of St. Petersburg"
Elizabeth Vann - Opole County [Silesia], Poland; "Language, Ethnicity, and Nationality in the German-Polish Borderland"
Marko Zivkovic - Belgrade, Serbia; "Stories Serbs Tell Themselves (and Others) About Themselves: Discourses on Identity and Destiny in Serbia since the mid-1980s"

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