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Daniel M. Abondolo

Lecturer in Hungarian Language and Literature
University of London (SSEES/UCL)
Home: (1462) 487 476
abondolo@ssees.ac.uk
Regions: Hungary, Balkans, N Eurasia, Sakhalin
Topics: language history, ecology, reconstruction -Nivkh, Orok, Ainu, Japanese, Russian

Lily Alexander

Director, Research Project on the Representation of Violence on Screen
1 Devonshire Place
Munk Center for International Studies
University of Toronto
Toronto, ON M5S 3K7
CANADA
416- 544-0079h
lily.alexander@utoronto.ca
visual media, communication, and cinema, symbolic anthropology, ritual and religion, semiotics of culture

Ronelle Alexander

Professor of Slavic Languages
University of California, Berkeley
Dept of Slavic Languages
Berkeley, CA 94720-2979
Tel.: 510-526-1232h 510-642-8301o 510-526-4038f
ralex@socrates.berkeley.edu
Region: Balkans
Topics: General oral tradition, Parry-Lord theory (esp re FSU)

David G. Anderson

Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology
University of Aberdeen
Dept of Anthropology
Edward Wright Bldg.
Aberdeen, Scotland AB24 3QY
United Kingdom
+44-1224-272-70w 273-442f
david.anderson@abdn.ac.uk
Regions: Siberia, Evenkiia, Indigenous Canada
Topics: ethnicity, social structure, political anthropology, comparative sociology of development

Alexandra Anisimova

PhD lecturer
Chelyabinsk 454090
Third International street-house 117 flat 33
Russia
home +7(8-351)-266-53-80
anisbrisma@mail.ru
Regions: Russia , United States
Topics: international adoption

Aet Annist

PhD Candidate
Department of Anthropology
University College London
Gower Street, London WC1 6BT
United Kingdom
a.annist@ucl.ac.uk
Regions: Estonia
Topics: development, aid industry, community revival, rural changes; representation of crime in the media; youth studies

Veronica E. Aplenc

University of Pennsylvania
Permanent Address:
2224 Spruce St., #2R
Philadelphia, PA 19103
USA
vaplenc@yahoo.com
Region: Slovenia
Interests: built environment, cultural anthropology, folklore

Tanya Argounova-Low

Department of Anthropology
University of Aberdeen
Aberdeen AB24 3QY
Great Britain
t.argounova-low@abdn.ac.uk
Regions: Yakutia (Sakha), Evenkiia
Topics: identity, ethnicity, nationalism, "othering"

Laura Assmuth

Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies
P.O. Box 4
00014 University of Helsinki
Finland
tel. +358 9 191 23466
laura.assmuth@helsinki.fi
http://www.helsinki.fi/collegium/eng/staff.htm
Regions: Estonia, Latvia, NW Russia, Italy, Finland
Topics: gender; borders; life course; ethnic, national and religious identities; citizenship; transnationalism

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Babken V. Babajanian

Researcher, PhD Candidate
Department of Social Policy
London School of Economics
B.V.Babajanian@lse.ac.uk
Regions: Caucasus, Central Asia, Russia, Ukraine
Topics: social capital; poverty; social development; civil society

James Bailey

Slavic Dept.
U of Wisconsin
Madison, WI 53706
jobailey@facstaff.wisc.edu

Edil Baissaloff

Research Coordinator
Coalition of NGOs For Democracy and Civil Society
+996-312-681334
baissal@yahoo.com
Regions: Kyrgyzia, Africa
Topics: national identity formation, comparative studies with postcolonial Africa, institutionalization of political parties

Catherine Baker

MPhil/PhD Candidate
UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies
University College London, Gower Street, WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom
cbakertw1@googlemail.com
Regions: Croatia, former Yugoslavia
Interests: popular music, popular culture, media, identity, nationalism

Olga Balalaeva

NM Heritage Ctr, Box 3E
New Mexico State Univ
Las Cruces, NM 88003
505-647-3439w 505-646-7725f
awiget@nmsu.edu
Regions: Western Siberia, Finno-Ugrians
Topic: folklore

Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer

Professor, Georgetown University
Editor, Anth and Archae of Eurasia
7605 Tomlinson Ave.
Cabin John, MD 20818
+1-301-320-2189home, +1-202-687-6080office, +1-301-320-4346fax
balzerm@georgetown.edu
Regions: Siberia (Khanty, Sakha), Cen Asia
Topics: ethnicity, shamanism, gender, multiple identities, nationalism

Elena Baraban

Assistant Professor of Russian
Room 325, Fletcher Argue Bldg.
German and Slavic Studies
University of Manitoba
Winnipeg, MB
Canada R3T 2N2
Tel.:+1(204)474-9735
Elena_Baraban@umanitoba.ca
Region: Russia, Ukraine
Interests: post-Soviet Russia, popular culture, detective fiction and film, Soviet/post-Soviet literature and film about WWII

Adele Barker

Professor of Russian and Cultural Studies
University of Arizona
CCLS
Box 6, Harvill Bldg.
Tucson, Az. 85721
+1-520 621-3608o
adeleb@u.arizona.edu
Region: Russia
Topics: Soviet and post-Soviet literature and women's writing, popular culture

Elena P. Batianova

Senior Scientist
Institute of Ethnology
Russian Academy of Sciences
Moscow
Russia
Regions: NE Asia, South Siberia
Topics: social organization, world-view, and spiritual culture

Ekaterina Belousova

Ph.D. Russian State University for the Humanities;
Graduate Student
Rice University, Department of Anthropology-MS 20
6100 Main St, Houston, TX 77005
Tel: +1-713-885-4252
katia.belousova@gmail.com
Regions: Russia; Russian-American connections
Topics: childbirth; parenting; New Age; alternative medicine; marginal science; gender; religion and spirituality

Daphne Berdahl

Associate Professor
Department of Anthropology
and Institute for Global Studies
395 HHH Center
301 19th Ave. South
Minneapolis, MN 55455
Phone: (612) 624-6551; Fax: (612) 625-3095
berda004@umn.edu
Region: Former GDR
Topics: politics of memory in the former GDR; mass consumption, globalization, and changing understandings, visions, meanings and practices of citizenship in post-Wall Germany

Anya Bernstein

New York University
PhD Candidate
ab1223@nyu.edu
http://www.cinetrance.com
Regions: North Asia, India
Interests: Siberian/Mongolian shamanism, transnational Tibetan Buddhism, visual anthropology and ethnographic film, religion, ritual, art, performance, nationalism, cultural production, indigenous peoples.

Frederic Bertrand

Departement d'anthropologie sociale, Universitè Victor
Segalen Bordeaux 2,
3 ter Place de la Victoire
33000 Bordeaux
FRANCE
05-56-51-05-83home
frederic_bertrand@yahoo.com
Regions: USSR, Russia.
Topics: Anthropology of Soviet and post-soviet ethnography

Judith Beyer

Ph.D.-Candidate
Max-Planck-Institute for Social Anthropology
Project Group Legal Pluralism
Advokatenweg 36
D - 06114 Halle (Saale)
Germany
beyer@eth.mpg.de
office: +49 (0)345 29 27 310
Regions:Central Asia, Kyrgyzstan
Topics: postsoviet legal system transformations. Public law, conflict prevention, the anthropology of law, network analysis and postcolonial states.

Laada Bilaniuk

Asst Prof, Anth
Univ of Washington
M32 Denny Hall Box 353100
Seattle, WA 98195-3100
206-543-5393 w 206-543-3285 f 206-526-9706 h
bilaniuk@u.washington.edu
-Ukraine
-language ideology, language politics -identity, gender, power

Sladja Blazan, Ph.D.

Lecturer
Humboldt University Berlin
Department of English and American Studies
Unter den Linden 6
10099 Berlin
S.Blazan@gmx.de
Region: Eastern and Central Europe, United States
Topics: migrant literature, post-socialist issues as a literary topic, women's studies, gender studies

Alexia Bloch

Associate Professor of Anthropology
Department of Anthropology and Sociology
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1 Canada
+1-604-822-4635 office; fax: +1-604-822-6161
abloch@interchange.ubc.ca
Regions: Siberia, Russian Far East, Turkey
Topics: Gender, education, transnationalism, museums, power and resistance, indigenous movements, politics of sex

Heidi Bludau

PhD student
Anthropology Department
Indiana University
Bloomington, USA
hbludau@indiana.edu
Regions: Central and Eastern Europe, Czech Republic
Topcis: identity, memory, nationalism, globalization, food

Sandrine Bochew

PhD, Anthropology
E.H.E.S.S. Paris (School of Advanced Studies in Social Sciences)
54, boulevard Raspail
75006 Paris
sbochew@yahoo.fr
Region: Bulgaria, Balkans
Topics: cultural policy, identity, ritual, festival, patrimony

Dmitrii D. Bogoiavlenskii

Senior Researcher
Institute of National Economicc Forecasting
Ul. 1812 g. 12 -106
Moscow 121370
RUSSIA
095-319-7358h 095-332-4397o
bogo@mail.ecfor.rssi.ru
-Siberia and circumpolar north
-fertility and mortality -epidemiology in 4th world

Martha J Bojko

PhD Candidate
University of Connecticut
Mailing address: PO Box 310893
Newington, CT 06131
mbojko@sbcglobal.net
Region: Ukraine, Transcarpathia, FSU
Topics: medical anthropology, public health, applied anthropology, HIV/AIDS risk, sexuality

Ilka Borchardt

Anthropologist
Home address: Defreggerstr. 21, 12435 Berlin, Germany
Tel. +49-30-616 23 888
ilka_borchardt@yahoo.de
Regions: Russia, Siberia, Central Europe
Topics: dachas, East-West migration, gender, sexuality and queer studies

Thomas Borén

PhD student
Department of Human Geography
Stockholm University
SE-106 91 Stockholm
Sweden
thomas.boren@humangeo.su.se
Regions:St. Petersburg, Russia
Topics: everyday life, urban space, urban questions

Aleksandar Boskovic

Senior Research Fellow,
Institute of Social Sciences,
Belgrade,
Serbia & Montenegro
Office: +381 (0)11 3067 593
bezuslovno@yahoo.co.uk
Regions: Slovenia, Serbia, Macedonia, Guatemala
Topics: history and theory of anthropology, peripheral anthropological traditions, semiotics, gender, myth and religion

Marijeta Bozovic

PhD candidate,
Columbia University
230 W. 107th St. apt. 4F
New York, NY 10025
Tel: (917) 887 5197
Regions: Russia, Balkans
Topics: poetry, prose, film, ballet, opera

Donatas Brandisauskas

PhD Candidate in Social Anthropology
University of Aberdeen
Dept of Anthropology
Edward Wright Bldg.
Aberdeen, Scotland AB24 3QY
United Kingdom
Tel: +44-1224-273490
d.brandisauskas@abdn.ac.uk
Regions: Siberia (Buriatia Republic, Chita region), East Europe (Lithuania)
Topics: Orochen (Evenki), Symbolic Anthropology, Anthropology of Religion, Perception of Environment, Informal Networks of Reciprocity.

Dale A. Bretches

Ph.D.
4227A Cleveland Ave.
San Diego, CA 92103-2412
619-299-7341
Region: Cuba
Topics: economic culture, social change -pol econ, epistemology

Michael Brewer

German & Slavic Studies and Media Arts Librarian
University of Arizona Library, A210
1510 E. University
P.O. Box 210055
Tucson, AZ 85721-0055
USA
Fax +1.520.621.9733, Voice +1.520.621.9919
brewerm@u.library.arizona.edu
Region: Russia, Former Yugoslavia
Topics: Cinema, popular culture, and anything having to do with libraries or information resources

Julie V. Brown

Assoc Professor, Sociology
University of NC at Greensboro
P.O. Box 26170
Greensboro, NC 27402-6170
336-334-5295o, 336-5283f 910-273-2192h
jvbrown@uncg.edu
Region: Russia
Topcis: Health and society -social inequalities -occupations and professions

Ludek Broz

PhD candidate
Department of Social Anthropology
University of Cambridge
Free School Lane
Cambridge CB2 3RF
United Kingdom
lb288@cam.ac.uk
Regions: Siberia (Altai Republic)
Topics: anthropology of religion, anthropology of knowledge, science studies, kinship, stratification and commodification of reproductive labour

Amy Bryzgel

PhD Candidate
Rutgers University
Department of Art History
Voorhees Hall
71 Hamilton Street
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
USA
abryzgel@eden.rutgers.edu
Regions: Russia, Latvia, Poland
Interests: Avant Garde art during the Soviet and Post-Soviet period

Victor Buchli

Dept of Anthropology
University College, London
Gower Street
London WC1E 6BT
United Kingdom
+44-20 77514 2451
v.buchli@ucl.ac.uk
-Soviet housing, consumerism -petit bourgeois conciousness
-material culture, architecture

Antoine Buisson

Ph.D. candidate
E.H.E.S.S. Paris (School of Advanced Studies in Social Sciences)
Faculty of Development Comparative Studies
54, boulevard Raspail
75006 Paris
tel.: +33 6 16 39 55 94
antoine_buisson@yahoo.com
Regions: Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan (and Central Asia as a whole)
Topics: statehood-building, post-conflict rehabilitation, nation-building, anthropology of political elites in transition

Gene Bukhman

Internal Medicine Resident
Brigham and Women's Hospital
gbukhman@hotmail.com
Regions: -Russia, Central Asia, W Africa
Topics: comparative health policy, medical anthropology

Jane Burbank

Professor of History
New York University
Department of History
53 Washington Square South
New York NY 10012-1098
Tel: +1-212-998-8628, 998-8600, Fax: +1-212-995-4017
Region: Russia
Topics: law, family, empire, literature, philosophy, political and social organization

Thomas Bürk-Matsunami

PhD. Candidate
Deptartment of European Ethnology/Social Anthropology
Humboldt University Berlin
D-10997 Berlin
Germany
+49/30/61629596
matsunami@gmx.de
Region: ex-GDR
Topics: social geographies of everyday life, spaces of fear, urban cultures, xenophobia

Bridget Ivanovna Butkevich

Doctoral Candidate
George Mason University
Deptartment of Economics
4400 University Drive
Fairfax, VA 22030-4444
bbutkevich@aol.com
Regions: Russia, Central Asia, (post-soviet with comparison to postcolonial areas)
Topics: political economy, public health, formal and informal institutions, conflict and cooperation, preference and belief formation, social-economic transformations.

Juraj Buzalka

PhD Candidate
Max-Planck-Institute for Social Anthropology
Department 2, Postsocialist Eurasia
PO Box 11 03 51
06017 Halle/Saale
Germany
office: +49 (0)345 29 27 207
buzalka@eth.mpg.de
http://www.eth.mpg.de
Interests: politics, religion, nationalism, social transformations
Regions: East Central Europe, Balkans

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Katherine Cadwell

Director, Project Harmony
#6 Irasville Common
Waitsfield, VT 05673
802-496-3295h 802-496-4551o
Kathy@projectharmony.org
-secondary school curriculum development

Melissa L. Caldwell

Assistant Professor
Department of Anthropology
University of California, Santa Cruz
321 Social Sciences I
1156 High Street
Santa Cruz, CA 95064
Phone: 831-459-3856
lissa@ucsc.edu
Region: Russia
Topics: food, poverty, social justice, economic anthropology

Craig A.R. Campbell

Ph.D. candidate, Sociology
University of Alberta
5-21 HM Tory Building
Edmonton AB
T6G 2H4 CANADA
+1-780-492-2223
ccampbel@ualberta.ca
http://www.arts.ualberta.ca/vcr/Craig/skookum.html
Regions: Central Siberia, Ilimpii Region, Evenkiia, Sakha
Topics: travel and mobility, visual ethnography, technology

Sarah Carton de Grammont

PhD student
LAIOS, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales,
office: 00(33-1)42-43-77-20
sarah.cartondegrammont@wanadoo.fr
Regions: Russia, ex-USSR
Topics: Urban anthropology, political anthropology, local politics, collective and individual memory, Moscow, tourism

Jennifer R. Cash

Visiting Assistant Professor
Department of Anthropology
University of Pittsburgh
3302 W.W. Posvar Hall
230 South Bouquet St.
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
USA
Office: +1-412-648-8078
jrcash+@pitt.edu
Regions: Moldova
Topics: Nationalism, ethnicity, folklore, cultural policy, hospitality

Kathryn Cassidy

PhD Candidate
Centre for Russian and East European Studies
University of Birmingham
Birmingham, B15 2TT
United Kingdom
kathryn.cassidy@lycos.co.uk
Regions: Romania, Ukraine
Topics: borderlands, contested regional identities, social anthropology, multi-site ethnography

Barbara Cellarius

Cultural Anthropologist/Subsistence Specialist
Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve
P.O. Box 439
Copper Center, AK 99573
USA
+1-907-822 5234
barbara@cellarius.net
Regions: Bulgaria, East Europe,
Topics: biodiversity -natural resource use and management -household & village economies, environmental NGOs

Lee Cerveny

Doct Cand, Anth,
Syracuse University
209 Maxwell Hall
Syracuse, NY 13244
Regions: Buriat Republic
Topics: ethnic identity -environmental movements

Valerie Chaussonet

Independent Researcher
2900 Connecticut Ave. NW, #251
Regions: Siberia,
Topics: clothing, material culture, museum studies

Cristian Chelariu

Assistant Professor of Marketing
Schulich School of Business, York University
Phone: 416-736-2100, X.77962
cchelariu@ssb.yorku.ca
Regions: Romania
Topics: Transition economies, governance of export relationships, management in transition enterprises, implementation of market orienation.

Boris Chichlo

Editor, Siberian Questions
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Laboratoire UPR 2147 "Dynamique de l'Evolution Humaine : Individus, Populations, Especes"
Président de l’association " France-Sibérie "
CNRS UPR-2147
44, rue de l’Amiral Mouchez
75014 Paris
FRANCE
+33-1-43-13-56-15office, +33-43-97-41-84h,+33-1-43-13-56-30fax
chichlo@ivry.cnrs.fr
http://www.ivry.cnrs.fr/deh/
http://www.ivry.cnrs.fr/chichlo/chichlo.htm

Jenny Chio

PhD Candidate
University of California, Berkeley
Department of Anthropology
232 Kroeber Hall #3710
Berkeley, CA 94720-3710
USA
jchio@berkeley.edu
Region: People's Republic of China
Topics: tourism, ethnicity, media studies

Thomas H. Chivens

Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow
Center for the Study of Cultures MS-620
Rice University
P.O. Box 1892
Houston, Texas 77251-1892
Office: +1-713-348-4226
tchivens@rice.edu
Regions: Poland, United States
Topics: Ethnographies of the state, Post-socialist power, Policing, Violence, Transnational feminism, Human Rights.

Patricia A. Cholewka

Researcher, lecturer, author
Patricia A. Cholewka, EdD, MPA, MA, RN,BC
6801 Shore Road
Bay  Ridge, NY  11220
U.S.A.
pacholewka@verizon.net
Regions: Former Soviet Union
Topics: comparative studies of healthcare systems of post-Soviet transitional economies; health and globalization; sustainable development and health capital; healthcare organizational development, performance improvement, and staff development

Mari H. Clarke

Society for Int'l Dev't, DC
7480 Adams Park Court
Annandale VA 22003-5724
703-658-2911w 703-658-3435f
mariclark@aol.com

Susanne Cohen

Ph. D. Candidate in Anthropology
University of Michigan
Department of Anthropology
101 West Hall
1085 S. University Ave.
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1107
smcohen@umich.edu
Regions: Russia
Topics: globalization, work, language ideology, subjectivity

Benedict J. Colombi

Department of Anthropology
Washington State University
Pullman, WA 99164-4910
+1-(509) 335-3441
bcolombi@wsu.edu
www.wsu.edu/~colombi
Regions: Russian Far East, Kamchatka, Columbia-Snake basin (Washington, Oregon, Idaho)
Topics: elite-directed consequences of growth, scale, and power impacting anadromous fish and indigenous people in the Columbi-Snake basins of the Pacific Northwest, but my larger/professional interests will be to link-up North Pacific Rim indigenous peoples and fishery focused natural resource issues between the US/Canadian basins and the basins of the Russian far east/Kamchatka peninsula.

Mihai Coman

Professor/Dean
The Faculty of Journalism and Mass Communication Studies
Bucharest University
1-3, Blvd. Iuliu Maniu
Bucharest, Romania
Fax/Phone: 401- 410- 0643
mcoman@fjsc.ro
www.unibuc.ro/en/cd_mihcoman_en
www.universitateamedia.ro/coman.html
Regions:Romania
Topics: Media anthropology, Cultural anthropology (myth, ritual, religion, anthropology of modernity), Media studies (sociology of the news room, reception studies), Media and post-communist transition

Bernard Comrie

Director, Linguistics
Max Planck Inst. for Evol. Anth
Inselstrasse 22
D-04103 Leipzig
GERMANY
+49 341-99-52-301w 99-52-119f
comrie@eva.mpg.de

Nancy Condee

Director, Graduate Program for Cultural Studies
Posvar 2E26
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
USA
+001-412-363-7180h, +001-412-624-5906o, +001-412-624-9714f
condee+@pitt.edu
Region: Russia
Topics: contemporary Russian culture, popular culture, Marxism, post-structuralism

Jo Ann Conrad

Doct Cand, UC Berkeley
833 San Luis Rd.
Berkeley, CA 94707
510-524-3033h
-Turkey and Turkic Central Asia
-folklore, anthropology and history, politics of folklore and identity

Susan Crate

Assistant Professor of Human Ecology
Department of Environmental Science and Policy
George Mason University
David King Hall, MS 5F2
4400 University Drive
Fairfax, Va 22030-4400
office: +1-703-993-1517; FAX: +1-703-993-1066
http://mason.gmu.edu/~espp/assocfaculty.htm
scrate1@gmu.edu
Regions: Russia, Siberia, Sakha Republic
Interests: Cultural Ecology, Indigenous Knowledge, Sakha , Siberia, Circumpolar North

Gerald W. Creed

Assoc Professor,
Dept of Anthropology,
Hunter College, City University New York
695 Park Ave.
New York, NY 10021
USA
+1-718-786-7870h +1-212-772-5410w +1-212-772-5423f
gcreed@hunter.cuny.edu
Regions: Bulgaria, Balkans, East Europe
Topics: nature of community, agriculture, ritual, family

Cécile Cuny

PhD Student in Social Sciences
University of Paris 8 / Humboldt University of Berlin
Centre Marc Bloch
Schiffbauerdamm 19
D-10117 Berlin
00 49 30 20 93 37 93
cec@cmb.hu-berlin.de
www.cmb.hu-berlin.de
Region: East Germany
Topics: Post-socialist housing estates, housing policies and political commitment in contemporary East Germany.

Kelley Curtis

Doct Cand, U South Florida
18301 Gulf Blvd.
Redington Shores, FL 33708
USA
+1- 813-397-3357home, +1-813-974-2138office, 8+1013-974-2668fax
curtis@luna.cas.usf.edu
-Siberia, Russia, museology

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Louise Dale

Ph.D. Candidate
University of Stellenbosch
South Africa
lhdale@mail.com (?)
Regions: Uzbekhistan and the Amu Darya River
Topics: plants and animals of early Zoroastrianism.

Leo Paul Dana

Professor, University of Canterbury
Private Bag 4800
Christchurch, New Zealand
leo.dana@canterbury.ac.nz
Regions: China, Southeast Asia
Topics: Animal husbandry, Indigenous people

Tsypylma Darieva

Research fellow and lecturer
Department for European Ethnology
Humboldt University Berlin
SFB 640
Mohrenstraße 40/41, D - 10117 Berlin
Germany
tel.: +49(30) 2093 4865; fax: +49 (30) 2093 4893
tsypylma.darieva@staff.hu-berlin.de
Region: Eastern Europe, Central Asia, Kazakhstan
Topics: urban ethnicity and nation-building, memory, minority and media

Christilla Marteau D'Autry

PhD Student, University of Paris X - Nanterre
cmaya06@yahoo.fr
Region of focus: Central Asia, Iran
Social and cultural anthropology

Michael Davis

Assoc Prof of Anthropology
Truman State Univ
Kirksville, MO 63501-4221
+1-816-665-6461home; +1-816-785-4636office;+1-816-785-4181fax
mgdavis@truman.edu
Regions:Russian, Turkish, native North America
Topcis:equestrian pastoralism, anthropological linguistics

Claire Delessard

Ph.D. Candidate
Science Po, Paris
FRANCE
Le Grosséno
56 370 Sarzeau
Dom. (00 33) 2 97 41 89 14; Mob. (00 33) 6 30 13 94 20
UKRAINE
Mob. (00 33) 3 80 50 76 82 330 (depuis la France); Mob. 80 50 76 82 330 (depuis l'Ukraine)
GEORGIA
10, Chovelidzé Kutcha, Room 121
0108 Tbilissi
Dom. (00 995 32) 98 52 02; Mob. (00 995 99) 70 60 52
caucaseplus@yahoo.fr
Regions: Georgia
Topics: works on the process of democratization and changes of power in the region. She is also the editor of the french speaking review of Georgia, Georgie + and works as a radio journalist for RFI.

Hulya Demirdirek

Assistant Professor
University of Lethbridge
Department of Anthropology
4401 University Drive
Lethbridge, Alberta
T1K 3M4 CANADA
phone: + 1 403-329 25 99, fax: +1 403-329 5109
Hdemirdirek@aol.com
Regions: Azerbaijan, Moldova (Gagauzia)
Topics: nation-building, history, narrative, gender, property, commercialized sex

Jaroslaw Derlicki

Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology
Polish Academy of Sciences
ul. Solidarnosci 105
00-140 Warszawa
Poland
derlicki@iaepan.edu.pl, jderlicki@wp.pl
http://www.iaepan.edu.pl/
Region: Northern Siberia (Yakutia) and Moldova
Topics: Identities, ethnoscapes, territoriality, nationalism, indigenous ideology

Jennifer Dickinson

Assistant Professor
509 Williams Hall
Dept. of Anthropology
University of Vermont
Burlington, VT 05405
Jennifer.Dickinson@uvm.edu
+1-802-656-0837office
http://www.uvm.edu/~jadickin/
Regions: Ukraine, Transcarpathia, language
Topcis: migrant labor and concepts of work, transnatsm, economic restructuring (03)

Tatjana Djuric Kuzmanovic

Ph.D., Economist.
home:
Bul S. Jovanovica 20
21000 Novi Sad
Vojvodina
FR Yugoslavia
office:
The Advanced Business School
V.Perica Valtera 4
21000 Novi Sad
Vojvodina
FRYugoslavia
Office: 3821 450 10, Home: 3821 401 800
e-mail: tanjadjk@eunet.yu
Regions: Serbia, Vojvodina
Topics: Development and transitional economics, gender and development, inequalities and poverty.

Brian Donahoe

Researcher
Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
Advokatenweg 36
06114 Halle
Germany
donahoe@eth.mpg.de
http://www.eth.mpg.de/people/donahoe
Regions: Tuva, Central Asia
Topics: cultural ecology; ecological anthropology, shamanism, environmentalism

Rada M. Drezgic

Doct Cand, Anth
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
drezgic@pitt.edu
Region: Serbia, former Yugoslavia
Topics: ethnicity, gender, reproduction -womens' issues, collective action

Nora Dudwick

Anthropologist, Social Development Unit
Economically and Socially Sustainable Development
Europea and Central Asia Region
World Bank
1818 H Street NW
Washington D.C. 20433
202-473-5048w
ndudwick@worldbank.org
Region: Armenia & FSU, networks
Topics: nationalism, ethnic violence, poverty, social exclusion

Dace Dzenovska

PhD Student, Anthropology
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720
tel: 510 282 4244
daced@uclink.berkeley.edu
Regions: Eastern Europe, Latvia, Georgia.
Topics: European integration; racialized difference and belonging; development; post-socialism and post-coloniality

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Paul Edson

Associate Professor of Humanities and Social Sciences
Department of Humanities and Social Sciences
Embry-Riddle University
edsonp@erau.edu
Regions: East/Central Europe; Baltics and Finland; Balkans; East/East Central Europeans in the U.S.
Topics:  ethnic identity, religion, politics, arts and humanities

Jeffers Engelhardt

Visiting Assistant Professor
Amherst College
Department of Music
Amherst, MA 01002
413.542.8469
jengelhardt@amherst.edu
Regions: Estonia, Estonian/Russian border region, Baltics
Topics: Ethnomusicology, Orthodoxy, religious renewal, festivals

Jennifer L. Erickson

Graduate Student
Department of Anthropology
University of Oregon
Eugene, OR 97403-1218
USA
jericks1@darkwing.uoregon.edu
Region: Bosnia-Herzegovina, former Yugoslavia
Topics: Roma, gender, racism, class, NGOs, INGOs

 

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Helen M. Faller

Ph.D. Candidate in Anthropology
University of Michigan
1058 LSA Building
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1382
hmfaller@umich.edu
+1 (734) 764-7274 (office)
Regions: Tatarstan, Russian Federation, former Soviet Union
Topics: intersections between nationalities policies, cultural hierarchies, and language ideologies; Soviet and postSoviet constructions of racial divisions and porosities; cultural productions (theater, song, film, festivals) as tools for articulating difference and sameness, Tatarstan sovereignty politics and nation-building ideologies.

Tair Faradov

Senior Research Fellow
Department of Democracy and Civil Society Studies,
Department of Peace and Conflict Studies
International Center for Social Research (ICSR)
Baku, Azerbaijan
Nizami Str., 12, Apt. 33, 370001, Baku, Azerbaijan
994-12 492 27 34 (h.), 672 22 49 (mob.)
TFaradov@yahoo.com
Regions: Azerbaijan, South Caucasus
Topics: civic culture, democratization, conflict resolution, interethnic tolerance

Erzsébet Fazekas

PhD Candidate Sociology
Columbia University
Department of Sociology
New York, NY, USA
Email: ef305@columbia.edu
http://www.columbia.edu/~ef305
Regions: Hungary, Central and Eastern Europe
Topics: civil society development, diffusion of ideas, discourse

Jeanne Feaux de la Croix

PhD candidate
University of St. Andrews
tel. +44 131 556 3517
jeannefeaux@yahoo.co.uk
Region: Central Asia, Kyrgyzstan
Topics: anthropology of landscape, environment, property relations, Islam, shamanism, migration

Krisztina Fehervary

Doct. Candidate
Department of Anthropology
The University of Chicago
1126 E. 59th Street
Chicago, IL 60637
USA
k-fehervary@uchicago.edu
Regions: Hungary, Central Europe
Topics: State socialist and post-socialist consumer culture, built environment, the state, aesthetics, the body, semiotics.

Carol Ann Fiedler

Freelance journalist, Systems Analyst
Perleberger Strasse 8A
10559 Berlin
GERMANY
+49-30-395-9520h +49-30-468-1879o 49-30-4691-8043f
Regions: former GDR, Yugoslavia
Topics: reunification, war

Peter Finke

Visiting assistant professor
Department of Sociology
Middle East Technical University
Ankara, Turkey
pfinke@metu.edu.tr
http://www.eth.mpg.de/people/finke
Regions: Central Asia (Uzbekistan, Kazakstan, Mongolia)
Topics: economic transformation, pastoral nomadism, identity and migration studies, political economy, ideology and cognition

Dr Moya Flynn

Department of Central and East European Studies
The University of Glasgow
Hetherington Building
Bute Gardens
Glasgow
G12 8RS
United Kingdom
office: +44-(0)141 330 6687; Fax: +44-(0)141 330 5594
m.b.flynn@socsci.gla.ac.uk
Region: Russia
Topics: contemporary Russian society and culture; migration; diaspora; ethnic and national identities

Gail Fondahl

Associate Professor
University of Norther British Columbia
Geography Program
Prince George, BC
V2N 4Z9
CANADA
+1-250-960-5856office, +1-250-960-5539fax
fondahlg@unbc.ca
http://www.unbc.ca/geography/faculty/gail.html
Regions: Russia, Siberia, circumpolar North
Topics: land tenure, Evenki; reindeer husbandry

Anna Fournier

Ph.D. Candidate
Johns Hopkins University
Department of Anthropology
404 Macaulay Hall
3400 N. Charles Street
Baltimore, MD 21218-2691 USA
+1-410-516-7272
afourni2@jhem.jhu.edu
Regions: Ukraine, Poland, and the Former Soviet Union
Topics: Political Anthropology, Citizenship, Nationalism, Education, Political Violence, Post-Soviet Democratic Revolutions

Martin Demant Frederiksen

Department of Anthropology and Etnography
University of Aarhus
Denmark
etno_demant@yahoo.dk
Regions: Transcaucasus (mainly Georgia)
Topics: developement, transnationalism, identity politics, anthropology of violence and conflict, and social imaginaries

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Cynthia Gabriel

Postdoctoral Fellow
University of Michigan
25 Haslett Ave
Toronto, ON M4L3R1
Canada
+1-416-686-6807
motherearthbirth@yahoo.com or mossbeach@hotmail.com
Region: European Russia
Topics: Medical System, Childbirth, Families, Gender, Political Economy

Marysia Galbraith

Asst Prof, Anth
U of Alabama, Dept of Anth
PO Box 870210
Tuscaloosa, AL 35487-0210
+001-205-348-0585, 205-348-8412w
mgalbrai@nc.ua.edu
Regions: Poland, youth, national identity
Topics: psychological anthropology

Galima Galiullina

Professor
Chelyabinsk State University, Economic Institute.
454016. Chelyabinsk-016
Chaykovskogo St.,.185 - 19
Tel +7-3512-42-81-65, Fax +7-3512-42-09-25, Mobile+7(3512)76-97-66
galima@csu.ru
Regions: Siberia
Topics: Religion

Paula Garb

Adjunct Professor
University of California, Irvine
Social Science Tower 717
Irvine, CA 92697
949-824-1227o 949-824-1544f
pgarb@uci.edu
http://hypatia.ss.uci.edu/gpacs/peacemaking/
http://hypatia.ss.uci.edu/gpacs/Abkhazia/
-Russia, Abkhazia/Georgia
-conflict transformation -legal culture

Ingrida Geciene

Lecturer in sociology
Vilnius University (Lithuania)
Sauletekio al. 9, Vilnius, Lithuania
ingrida@mail.usa.com
Regions: post-communist countries
Topics: social stratification, political participation, civic society, mass media

Alexandra Gerber

PhD Candidate
University of Michigan
Department of Sociology
1225 S. University
Ann Arbor, MI 48104
alexaz@umich.edu
Region:Poland
Topics: citizenship, women and gender, democratization

Genevra Gerhart

2134 E. Interlaken Bl.
Seattle, WA 98112-3433
206-329-0053h 206-685-0635f
-Russian culture through language
-evolution of sirens; high culture as language, meaning through language use

Katharina Gernet

Siberian Studies Centre
Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
P.O.Box 11 03 51
06017 Halle/Saale
Germany
Phone +49 (0) 345 29 27 234
Fax +49 (0) 345 29 27 202
gernet@eth.mpg.de
httP;//www.eth.mpg.de
Region: Russian, Siberia, Kamchatka, Evens
Topics: reindeer herding, craft production, applied anthropology

Elisabeth Gessat-Anstett

Anthropologist
Postdoc Fellow, Laboratoire d'Anthropologie sociale
Collège de France
52 rue du Cardinal Lemoine
75005 Paris - FRANCE
Tel : +33 1 45 66 64 04
elisabeth.gessat@tele2.fr
Regions: Russia
Topics: collective memory, gulag, kinship, rural-urban spaces

Alexandra Gerber

PhD Candidate
University of Michigan
Department of Sociology
1225 S. University
Ann Arbor, MI 48104
alexaz@umich.edu
Regions:Poland
Topics: citizenship, women and gender, democratization

Kristen Ghodsee

Assistant Professor
Women's Studies, Eurasian and East European Studies
Bowdoin College
7100 College Station
Brunswick, ME 04011
USA
office: +1-207-725-3427, Fax: +1-207-725-3659
kghodsee@bowdoin.edu
http://academic.bowdoin.edu/faculty/K/kghodsee/
Regions: Bulgaria, Eastern Europe
Topcis: Women in Development, Education in Developing Economies, Human Capital Theory, Social Stratification, Women's labor in transition economies, tourism and economic development, women's nongovernmental organizations in developing and transitioning economies, gender in alternative state formations, and moderate Muslim women's resistance to fundamentalist Islam in post-socialist Bulgaria.

Yasar Abu Ghosh

Doctoral candidate
Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales
54, bd. Raspail
75006 Paris
abughosh@ens.fr
Regions: Central and Eastern Europe, Czech Republic
Topics: Romani people, marginalisation, post-socialism, political anthropology, social theory

Patricia A. Gilman

Department of Anthropology
University of Oklahoma
Norman, OK 73019
405-364-6974h 405-325-3261o
-Northeastern Siberia
-architecture, pit structures, mobility and sedentism

Sascha L. Goluboff

Asst. Prof of Anth
Washington and Lee Univ
Dept of Soc and Anth
Lexington, VA 24450
540-463-8807w 540-463-8498f
goluboffs@wlu.edu
Regions: Russia, Azerbaijan, Jews
Topics: ritual, theology, urban anthropology, nationalism

Maria Goranova

Doctoral Candidate, Strategy and Human Resources
Whitman School of Management
Syracuse University
tel: +1-(315) 443 3468
mlgorano(@)syr.edu
http://www.som.syr.edu/facstaff/mlgorano/
Topics: Strategic management, ownership, mergers and acquisitions, compensation

Rebecca Gould

Graduate Student
Department of Anthropology
Columbia University
New York, NY, USA
rebecca78@mail.ru
Region: Caucasus, esp. the NE Caucasus and Georgia
Topics: indigenous literatures, linguistic anthropology

Nelson Graburn

Professor of Anthropology
U of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720
USA
+1-510-845-1537h, +1-510-642-2120w
graburn@uclink.berkeley.edu
Region: circumpolar North
Topics: indigenous arts, museums, identity

Bruce Grant

Associate Professor of Anthropology
New York University
Department of Anthropology
25 Waverly Place
New York, NY 10003
voice: +1-212-998-3810; fax: _1-212-995-4014
bruce.grant@nyu.edu
Regions: Russia, RFE, Caucasus, Azerbaijan
Topcis: cultural politics, indigenism, historiography, cinema

William Graves III

Assoc. Professor of Humanities
Bryant University
Smithfield, RI 02917
Office: +1-401-232-6384
wgraves@bryant.edu
Regions: Belarus, Ukraine, Russia
Topics: politics of identity, post-socialism and neo-communism, states and markets, social change

Jessica K. Graybill

PhD Student
Dept. of Geography & Urban Ecology Program
University of Washington
Box 353550
Seattle, Wa
USA
tel. 206.616.1148, fax 206.543.3313
graybill@u.washington.edu
Regions: Russian Far East (Sakhalin, Kamchatka)
Topics: resource peripheries, environment, social/cultural issues in transformation, society-nature issues

Patty A. Gray

Assistant Professor
Dept. of Anthropology
University of Alaska Fairbanks
310 Eielson Building
P.O. Box 757720
Fairbanks, AK 99775-7720
tel +1 (907) 474-6188
fax +1 (907) 474-7453
ffpag@uaf.edu
http://www.uaf.edu/anthro/FacultyPages/Gray.html
Regions: Rural European Russia, Russian Far North/East, Alaska
Topics: Political economy; activism; repression (esp. by bureaucratic means); impact of post-Soviet change in rural communities; urban-rural connections; nexus of missionary activity, humanitarian aid, and neoliberal ideology.

Elena Grigorieva

Lecturer in Semiotics
Department of Semiotics, Tartu University (Estonia)
Tiigi 78 - 311, Tartu 50410
Estonia
cell (372) 5818540;7 work (372 7) 375933
elena.grigorieva@gmail.com
jelena.grigorjeva@ut.ee
Project: Visual Culture of Socialism: Classical Art for Propaganda.
Region: former Soviet Union
Topics: visual semiotics, visual culture, cultural studies, history of art, mythological studies, visual anthropology, semiotics of everyday behavior, theory and history of persuasion and propaganda, emblem studies.

Dainora Grundey

Professor of Marketing and Business Administration
Vice-Dean for Scientific Research
Kaunas Faculty of Humanities
Vilnius University
Muitines g. 8
LT-42280 Kaunas
LITHUANIA
Office: +370 37 425 462
grundey@vukhf.lt & grundey@mikrovisata.net
Regions: the Baltic States, CEEC, rest of Europe
Topics: marketing research, customer behaviour, sustainable consumption & ethics, sustainable development & culture, emotional marketing, knowledge marketing, business & linguistics interface

Jakub Grygar

Assistant Professor
Department of Sociology
Masaryk University
Jostova 10
602 00 Brno
CZECH REPUBLIC
grygar@fss.muni.cz
www.volny.cz/jakubgrygar
Regions: Central and Eastern Europe, Czech Republic, Poland, Belarus
Topics: border studies, post-socialism, Europeanization, nationalism, social change, social memory

David Gullette

Ph.D. Candidate
University of Cambridge
Department of Social Anthropology
Free School Lane
Cambridge CB2 3RF
United Kingdom
Office: (+44) 01223 767279
davegullette@hotmail.com or dcg22@cam.ac.uk
Regions: Kyrgyzstan, Central Asia
Topics: nationalism, "state", Soviet social engineering, kinship, ethnicity

Pär Gustafsson

Dept of Sociology, Umea University
Sweden
Regions: Russia
Topics: informal networks, social capital; violent entrepreneurship; foreign firms in Russia

Hugh Gusterson

Assoc. Prof. Anth
MIT, 16-247
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02139
617-236-6415h 617-253-7270o
guster@mit.edu
-Russian nuclear culture
-anth. of science, pol. anth. -post-structuralist theory

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Joachim Otto Habeck

Siberian Studies Centre
Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
Postbox 11 03 51
D-06017 Halle an der Saale
Germany
+49-345 29 27 216 office, +49-345 29 27 502 fax
habeck@eth.mpg.de
http://www.eth.mpg.de/people/habeck
Regions: Siberia (currently Novosibirskaia oblast'), Komi Republic
Topics: land tenure, reindeer herding, 'tradition' and 'culture', aspects of identity
beyond etnicity

Agnieszka Halemba

Research Fellow
Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
Advokatenweg 36
06114 Halle/Saale
Germany
halemba@eth.mpg.de
http://www.eth.mpg.de/people/halemba
Region: Southern Siberia, Altai
Topics: religion, idenities, anthropology of landscape, tourism, environmental protection

Eric P. Hamp

Prof Emeritus, U. of Chicago
5200 S. Greenwood Ave.
Chicago, IL 60615
USA
+1-312-324-9170h
-Baltics, Caucasus, Ket, Albanian
-dialectology, language in culture

Nelson Hancock

American Museum of Natural History
79th St. and Central Park West
New York, NY 10024
USA
+1-212-769-5772 o. +1-212-769-5334 fax
nelson_hancock@hotmail.com
Regions: Siberia/Kamchatka
Topics: Indigenous peoples, ethnohistory, ethnic classification, identity politics

Krista Harper

Assistant Professor
Department of Anthropology and the Center for Public Policy and Administration
Machmer Hall 215
University of Massachusetts
Amherst, MA 01003
ph: 413-577-0661
fax: 413-545-9494
http://www-unix.oit.umass.edu/~harper/
e-mail: kharper@anthro.umass.edu
Regions: Hungary, Roma, environment
Topcis: health, body, NGOs -consumerism, civil society

Ewa Hauser

Senior Lecturer, Anth U of Rochester
Rochester, NY 14627
716-266-3977h 716-275-1677o
ehsr@troi.cc.rochester.edu
Region: Poland
Topcis: ritual, gender -reproductive rights, public ritual -symbolism, feminism, cultural studies

Robert M. Hayden

Director, CREES
4G15 Forbes Quadrangle
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
412-648-7404w
rhayden@ucis.pitt.edu
Regions: Balkans, Yugo, Serbia, Bosnia, Croatia
Topcis: politics, law, constitutionalism -state structures, nationalism

Michael David Hazen

Prof of Communication
Wake Forest Univ
Box 7347, Reynolda Stn
Winston-Salem, NC 27109
+1-910-748-9330h 910-758-5404o 910-758-4691f
hazen@wfu.edu
Regions: Russia, Eastern Europe
Topics: communication & mass media

Krista Hegburg

Ph.D. candidate
Department of Anthropology
Columbia University
kmh55@columbia.edu
Region: Czech Republic
Topics: reparations, political violence, the Holocaust, race, citizenship

Maarit Heinonen

Researcher
Aleksanteri Institute
Finnish Center for Russian and East European Studies
Töölönkatu 3 A (P.O. Box 42)
00014 University of Helsinki
FINLAND
maarit.i.heinonen@helsinki.fi
Regions: Central and Eastern Europe
Topics: multifunctional agriculture, conservation of plant genetic resources

Monica Heintz

Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
Postbox 110351
06017 Halle/Saale
GERMANY
+49-345-2927214
heintz@eth.mpg.de
http://www.eth.mpg.de/people/heintz
Regions: Romania, Republic of Moldova
Topics: ethics and morality, work, Romanian Orthodox Church

Elissa L. Helms

Elissa Helms
Assistant Professor
Department of Gender Studies
Central European University, Budapest, Hungary
helmse@ceu.hu
Region: Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bosniaks, former Yugoslavia
Topics: gender and nationalism, women's NGO and political activism, Islam, representation

Julie Hemment

Asst Prof, Anth U Mass, Amherst
Box 34805
Amherst, MA  01003
413-577-1104
jhemment@anthro.umass.edu
Region: Russia
Topcis: gender, transition, NGOs & civil society, participatory action research

Ronan Hervouet

PhD candidate in sociology
Département de sociologie
Université Victor Segalen Bordeaux 2
3 ter place de la Victoire
33000 Bordeaux
FRANCE
05-56-31-91-85 home
hervouet.ronan@wanadoo.fr
Regions: USSR, Belarus
Topics: dachas and vegetable gardens, family relations, everyday life of urban citizens

Susan Hicks

PhD student
Department of Anthropology and Sociology
University of British Columbia
smhst57@interchange.ubc.ca
Regions: Siberia, Sakha Republic (Yakutia)
Topics: identity politics, education, indigenous movements, cultural hybridity

Annie Hillar

PhD candidate
Central European University
Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology
Budapest, Hungary
anniehillar@yahoo.com
Regions: Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia
Topics: gender, feminist theories, women's NGOs & civil society, donor-NGO relations

Thomas Hills

37, Hoffman Square,
Chart Street
London, N1 6DH
Great Britain
Tel. +44 20 7613 4547
tomhills@btopenworld.com
Region: Russia, CIS
Topics: Regional development, nationalities, transition

Eva Maria Hinterhuber

Doct. Cand. Poli Sci
European University, Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder)
Saarbruecker Str. 16
D 10405 Berlin Germany
[49-30-] 824-8515
ehinterh@aol.com
-Russia, Caucasus
-gender, peace and conflict -citizenship, democracy

Francine Hirsch

Department of History
University of Wisconsin-Madison
fhirsch@wisc.edu
+1(608)263-1783 office
Region: Soviet Union
Topcis: history of Soviet ethnography in 1920s, the Museum of Anthropology & Ethnography as a focus of civic education

Myriam Hivon

Adj Asst Prof
Concordia Univ
Dept of Soc and Anth
1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd W
Montreal, PQ
CANADA H3G 1M8
fortier.hivon@sympatico.ca
Region European Russia
Topcis: anth of dev't -agrarian reform (1861-1999), domestic economy

Tova Höjdestrand

Dept of Social Anthropology
University of Stockholm S-10691
Stockholm
SWEDEN
+011-46-8-163371office, +011-46-843781home, +011-46-158894fax
tova.hojdestrand@socant.su.se
Topics: homelessness, social exclusion, identity politics, social space, housing

Janine Holc

Dept. of Political Science
Loyola College
4501 N. Charles
Baltimore, MD 21210
USA
Jholc@loyola.edu

Tobias S. Holzlehner

PhD Candidate
Department of Anthropology
University of Alaska Fairbanks
Fairbanks, AK 99775
Tel.: 907-474-7589
holzlehner@gmx.de
Region: Russia, Far East
Topics: social change, economic anthropology, cross-border trade, organized crime, violence

Larisa Honey

Doct Cand, Dept. of Anthropology
CUNY Graduate Center
365 Fifth Ave.
New York, NY 10016
USA
Home:+1-718-452-1359
larisahoney@hotmail.com
Regions: Moscow, Russia; Former Soviet Union
Topics: New Age spirituality and health, gender, globalization, orientalism, human rights

Dana Howell

Professor of Comparative Cultural History
Marlboro College
Marlboro, VT 05344
Office: +1-802-258-9313
danahowe@marlboro.edu
Region: Russia/Eurasia
Topics: Public culture, folklore and popular culture, cultural policy

Carolyn L. Hsu

Assistant Professor, Sociology and Anthropology
Colgate University
Hamilton, NY 13346
USA
+1-315-228-7083w, +1-315-228-7974fax
chsu@mail.colgate.edu
Region: People's Republic of China
Topics: narrative, social stratification, organization, institutions, occupations

Sharon Hudgins

Independent Researcher
swhudgins@earthlink.net
Regions: Siberia, Russian Far East, European Russia
Topics: Food, food products, culture, urban life, Buriats

Caroline Humphrey

Cambridge University
King's College
Cambridge, CB2 1ST
ENGLAND
ch10001@hermes.cam.ac.uk

Eva V. Huseby-Darvas

5 Southwick Court
Ann Arbor, MI 48105
+1-313-769-7698home, +1-313-436-9174office, +1-313-761-5236fax
Regions: Eastern Europe, Hungary
Topics: gender, migration, refugees, ethnicity (00)

Henry R. Huttenbach

Prof, Chair of Russ Area Studies
Department of History
The City College of New York
138th Street & Convent Avenue
New York, NY 10031
718-624-2301h 212-6500-7384o 212-650-7392f
hhuttenbach@ccny.cuny.edu
Regions: Eastern Europe, Former USSR
Topics: history, ethnic/interethnic politics

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Baris Isci

Doctoral Candidate, Anthropology
Washington University in St. Louis
+1 314-727-2558
bisci@artsci.wustl.edu
Regions: Central Asia, Kyrgyzstan
Topics: Religion, Islam, folk practices of healing, shrine pilgrimage

Armine Ishkanian

Lecturer
Centre for Civil Society
London School of Economics
Houghton Street
London WC2A 2AE
United Kingdom
A.Ishkanian@lse.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (020) 7955 7354 or 7955 7375, Fax: +44 (020) 7955 6039
Regions: Armenia, South Caucasus, Central Asia
Topics: NGOs, civil society, and economic development and poverty; gender in development and transitions; diaspora and migration.

Zohra Ismail

PhD Student Anthropology
Indiana University
Bloomington, USA
zismail@indiana.edu
Regions: Central Asia, Afghanistan
Topics: livelihoods, environmental degradation, religion

Roy D. Iutzi-Mitchell

Adj Professor
Depts. of Anth. and Ling
University of Alaska
+1-907-543-3642 home, +1-907-543-4500 office, +1-907-543-4527fax
royiutzimitchell@hotmail.com
Regions: Chukota, language policy
Topics: linguistic & cultural survival

Maranatha Ivanova

PhD Candidate
University of California, Berkeley
Department of Political Science
210 Barrows Hall, UCB
Berkeley CA, 94720, USA
Tel: (510)524-4135
E-mail:mivanova@socrates.berkeley.edu
Website: http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~mivanova/
Regions: Russia, China
Topics: Language, power, authority, agency, underground culture, cultural logics of state capitalism, cultural change, intellectual property and cultural production, youth culture, pop culture, Avant-Garde movements, Public/Private/Political, ordinary language philosophy, urbanaAnthropology

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Beverly A. James

Associate Professor
Department of Communication
Horton Social Science Center
University of New Hampshire
Durham, NH 03824 USA
+ 1-603-862-3344office
bajames@cisunix.unh.edu

Jason C. James

Visiting Assistant Professor
Department of Anthropology
Lafayette College
Easton, PA USA 18042
jamesj@lafayette.edu
Region: Eastern Germany
Topics: Urban renewal and historic preservation, nationalism, belonging, citizenship, conceptions of home and security.

Stephen F. Jones

Asst. Prof., Mt. Holyoke
Russian Dept.
South Hadley, MA 01075
413-253-7789h 413-538-2428o 413-538-2312f
sfjones@mhc.mtholyoke.edu
-Caucasia, nationalism, Georgia
-domestic CIS politics

Raymond June 

Faculty Fellow, 
American University, 
Transnational Crime and Corruption Center, 
School of International Service,
4000 Brandywine Street, Suite 300, 
Washington, DC 20016
E-mail: june@american.edu
Regions: East Central Europe, Czech Republic
Topics: ethnography, anti-corruption and governance, humanitarianism, science studies, intelligentsia

Yuson Jung

PhD Candidate
Department of Anthropology
Harvard University
33 Kirkland St.
Cambridge, MA 02138
jung@fas.harvard.edu
Regions: Bulgaria, Eastern Europe
Topics: Consumption and consumerism, globalization and standardization,
political economy and social theory, politics of social grumbling,
anthropology of food, postsocialism

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Tony Kaliss

Prof, U Maryland
Asian Division
PSC 80 Box 11633
APO AP 96367
+81-902-502-7065
tony.kaliss@ilisagvik.cc
Regions: N Russia, N America
Topics: indig pples, state policy -native/Euro interaction, spiritual life

Csilla Kalocsai

PhD Candidate
Yale University
csilla.kalocsai@yale.edu
Region: Hungary
Topics: Transnational Corporations, Work, Gender, Youth and Neoliberalism

Sergei Kan

Professor of Anthropology and Native American Studies
Dartmouth College
Hanover, NH 03755
+1-603-448-3331home, +1-603-646-2550office +1-603-646-2810fax
Sergei.A.Kan@dartmouth.edu
Regions: Alaska, indigenous Siberia
Topics: Tlingit, 19th century Russian-Alaskan relations, (post-)Soviet culture, missions, religious & ideological change, history of Russian/Soviet anthropology

Deema Kaneff

Researcher
Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
Postfach 11 03 51
06017 Halle an der Saale
Germany
Tel: +49 345 2927 213
Fax: +49 345 2927 102
kaneff@eth.mpg.de
http://www.eth.mpg.de/people/kaneff
Regions: Bulgaria, Ukraine
Topics: politics and history, state building, property relations: changing nature of property, cultural property

David Karjanen

Postdoctoral Scholar
Center for Comparative Immigration Studies
University of California, San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla CA 92093
USA
+1-619.339.1725
dkarjane@socsci.ucsd.edu
Regions: Eastern Europe, especially Czech and Slovak Republics
Topics: Political Economy, Gender, Migration, Public Health

Erich Kasten

Independent scholar, consultant
Uferweg 4
D-16798 Fürstenberg/Havel
Germany
phone: +49-033093-60671, fax: +49-033093-60670
kasten@snafu.de
http://www.siberian-studies.org
Regions: Kamchatka, North Pacific Rim, Scandinavia
Topics: Anthropology of the North, cultural continuity and change, ethnicity, indigenous environmental knowledge, endangered languages, ritual and ceremony, arts, museums

Leslie Kaufman

Doct Cand, Appl Anth, Columbia
271 East 10th Street, Apt. 5
New York, NY 10009
212.473.8508h/f
ldk6@columbia.edu
Regions: Russia, CIS
Topics: Political and economic anthropology, Theories of production of space, land use, representation

Michael Kennedy

Prof of Sociology
Director, International Inst
Vice Provost for Int'l Affairs
U of Michigan
1080 S. University, Ste 2660
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1106
midake@umich.edu
Regoisn: Poland, Ukraine
Topics: business, identity & ideological movements, power

Leyla J. Keough

Ph.D. Candidate, Cultural Anthropology
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Istanbul mobile: +90(536)239.1893, Istanbul land line: +90(216) 416.6893
ljkeough@anthro.umass.edu
Regions: Middle East (Turkey), Eastern Europe (Gagauzia, Moldova), Europe
Topics: Gender, power, and culture; irregular labor migration, trafficking
discourse, and migrant domestic work.

Anna M. Kerttula

Program Director, Arctic Social Sciences Program
National Science Foundation
4201 Wilson Blvd. Room 755
Arlington, VA 22230
akerttul@nsf.gov
+1-703-292-7432
Regions: Arctic, Russia, Russian Far East, Chukotka, and Alaska
Topics: Yup'ik and Chukchi ethnography, general Arctic ethnology, social structure, cultural dynamics, symbolic anthropology.

Salmaan Keshavjee

Vstg Scholar
Harvard Ctr for Middle E. Studies
Coolidge Hall, 517
1737 Cambridge St.
Cambridge, MA 02139
617-495-4055w
salmaan@post.harvard.edu
Regions: Tajikistan, Central Asia, Gorno Badakhshan
Topics: health, pharmaceutical policy

Anatoly M. Khazanov

Ernest Gellner Prof of Anthropology
Univ of Wisconsin-Madison
5438 Social Science Bldg.
1180 Observatory Drive
Madison, WI 53706
+1-608-262-4343, +1-608-262-2866
khazanov@facstaff.wisc.edu
Regions: Central Asia, Eurasian Steppes, North Caucasus
Topics: nomadism, nationalism, ethnicity -religion, pol sci, history
(not on listserve)

Nadezhda Kimonko

Researcher, Dept of Culture
Khabarovsk Territorial Admin
Ul. Zaparina, 88
Khabarovsk 680000
RUSSIA
+7-421-2-739609office, +7-421-2-336056fax
Regions: Siberia, Russian Far East
Topics: indigenous peoples

Alexander King

Lecturer
Department of Anthropology
University of Aberdeen
Edward Wright Bldg.
Aberdeen AB24 3QY, Scotland
United Kingdom
Tel: +44-1224-272732, Fax: +44-1224-273442
a.king@abdn.ac.uk
http://www.koryaks.net

Regions: Russian Federation, Koryakia, Kamchatka, Native Siberia & North America, North Pacific
Topics: Anthropology of the North, indigenous Siberia,ethnicity, nationalism, shamanism, culture theory, descriptive grammar, ethnopoetics

Ivan Klimov

Head of Department "Public Opinion" Foundation. Russia
119421 Moscow
Obrucheva St.,26 b.2,
Russia
office +7(495)7458765
http://www.fom.ru/
Institute of Sociology,
Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS).
klimov@orc.ru
Regions: Russia
Topics: Social mobilization, social identity, sociology of culture, Social theory.

Neringa Klumbyte

Research Associate, Department of Anthropology
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
773 989 7909
nekst4@pitt.edu
Regions: Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, Lithuania
Topics: nationalism and the state; electoral politics; biography and memory; food,
marketing and consumption; social change; social theory.

Nathaniel Knight

Asst Prof, Dept of History
Seton Hall University
South Orange, NJ 07079
973-275-2178w 973-371-5337h
knightna@shu.edu
-nationality and empire -hist of ideas; hist of sci
-ethnog and orientalism

Erin Koch

Assistant Professor
Department of Anthropology
University of Kentucky
Lexington, KY 40506
Office: +1 859-257-7312
Email: Erin.koch_AT_uky.edu
Regions: Georgia, The Caucasus, former Soviet Union
Topics: Medicine, Illness and Health, Science, Displacement, Humanitarianism, the State

David Kocman

Doctoral Candidate
Charles University in Prague
Faculty of Social Sciences
d.kocman@email.cz
Region: Czech Republic
Topics: ethnography of care, dis/ability, municipal housing policy, socail studies of science and technology (STS)

David Koester

Dept of Anth
U of Alaska, Fairbanks
P. O. Box 757720
Fairbanks, AK 99775-7720
907-474-7133w 907-474-7453f
ffdck@uaf.edu
Regions: Iceland, Siberia, Kamchatka
Topics: Historical consciousness, Itelmens

Philip Kohl

Professor, Dept of Anth
Wellesley College
Wellesley, MA 02180
617-235-5726h 617-283-2146o
617-283-3664f
pkohl@wellesley.edu
Regions: Caucasus, Central Asia
Topics: nationalism, archeology -social evolution

Elena Koltsova

Res Assoc, European U
11 Izmailovskii Pr, 40
198005 St. Petersburg
RUSSIA
+7-812-251-3976h
olessia@eu.spb.ru
Region: Russia, TV news
Topics: postcommunist media -democratization

Natalie Kononenko

Kule Chair of Ukrainian Ethnography
University of Alberta
Department of Modern Languages and Cultural Studies
441C Arts Building
Edmonton, AB Canada T6G 2E6
Office: +1-780-492-6810
natalie.kononenko@ualberta.ca
http://www.arts.ualberta.ca/uvp/
Regions: Ukraine, Russia, Turkey
Topics: folklore, performers & performance, ritual

Yulian Konstantinov

Institute for Anthropological Field Research
New Bulgarian University
BG-1233, PO Box 59
Sofia
Bulgaria
Tel. +359 (2) 955-9641office
bsrcs@mbox.cit.bg (?)
http://www.cit.bg/home/bsrcs (?)
Region: NW Russia, Karelia
Topics: reindeer herding

Ene Kõresaar

Senior Research Fellow
University of Tartu
Centre for Research of Culture and Communication
Ü likooli 18, 50090 Tartu, Estonia
ene.koresaar@ut.ee
Region: Estonia, Baltic states
Topics: memory and history, politics of experience, life stories, Oral History, public commemoration

Pawel Kornacki

PhD lecturer, Warsaw University
Institute of English Studies
Nowy Swiat 4, 00-497 Warsaw, Poland
fax (4822)6252931
p.kornacki@uw.edu.pl
Region: Poland
Topics: cross-cultural communication, sign language description

Laurie Krieger

Senior Technical Advisor, The Manoff Group
12710 Saddlebrook Drive
Silver Spring, MD 20906
U.S.A.
Office: +1(202) 265-7469; Cell: +1(301) 675-5006
lkrieger@manoffgroup.com
Regions: Central Asia, Kazakhstan, ME
Topics: medical anthropology, women's health -culture theory, culture change

Igor Krupnik

Research Anthropologist
Arctic Studies Center
Smithsonian Institution
P.O. Box 37012
Natural History Bldg, MRC-0112
Washington DC, 20013-7012
USA
+1-202-546-8049home, +1-202-357-4742office, +1-202-357-2684fax
krupniki@si.edu
Regions: Siberia, Arctic, Caucasus
Topics: ecology, cultural change

Kathleen Kuehnast

Research Associate
Institute of European, Russian and Eurasian Studies
George Washington University
kkuehnast@aol.com
Region: Central Asia, Kyrgyzstan
Topics: gender, poverty, women and Islam, culture change

Carole Glover Kuriatnikova

Doct Cand, American U
Verkhnevolzhskaya Nab. 19-3
Nizhny Novgorod 603155
RUSSIA
root@carol.sci-nnov.ru
Regions: Russia, households
Topics: economic transition & impact -gender & economic ideology

László Kürti

Asst Prof, Anth
Dept of Ethnography and Folklore
LK, Bajza u. 4
6050 Lajosmizse
HUNGARY
011-36-20-434-698h
lkurti@helka.iif.hu
Regions: Siberia, Khanty-Mansi Aut. Region
Topics: ethnicity, revival, peoples of the north -socio-cultural anthropology

Larisa Kurtovic

PhD student
Department of Anthropology
University of California, Berkeley
LarisaK@berkeley.edu
Regions: Republics of former Yugoslavia, ex-Yugoslav diaspora(s)
Topics: memory, nostalgia, narrative, production of space and time, linguistic anthropology and discourse analysis

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Dr. Andreas Langenohl

Justus-Liebig-Universitaet
Institut fuer Soziologie
Karl-Gloeckner-Strasse 21 E
35394 Giessen
Germany
+49-641-9923303office, +49-641-9923309fax
andreas.langenohl@sowi.uni-giessen.de
- Region: former USSR, post-colonial countries
- Subjects: collective identity, collective memory, rationalisation processes

Gediminas Lankauskas

Doct Cand, Anth
U of Toronto
Toronto, ON M5S 3G3
CANADA
+1-416-487-5623h,+1- 416-978-3217f
glankaus@alcor.concordia.ca
-Lithuania
-identity, nationalism, youth, -culture change, Westernization -consumption

Jonathan Larson

Jonathan Larson
Visiting Asst. Professor
Department of Anthropology
58 Upham Hall
Miami University
Oxford, OH 45056
larsjonathan@gmail.com
Regions: Slovakia, Central & Eastern Europe,
Topcis: ideology, language as social action, public culture, information and censorship, intellectuals and expertise

Rieke Leenders

Lecturer
Department of Cultural Anthropology
Faculty of Social Sciences
Utrecht University
Heidelberglaan 2
3584 CS Utrecht
The Netherlands
Voice: +31 (30) 2531878/2111; fax: +31 (30) 2534666
H.W.G.Leenders@fss.uu.nl
Regions: Siberia, Russia, Mongolia
Topics: Urban ethnicity and reciprocity

Alaina Lemon

Asst Prof, Anth, U Michigan
1020 LSA
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
+1-734-764-2333, +1-734-327-0849
amlemon@umich.edu
-Russia, Romani diaspora
-performance and performativity -language as social action -racial, national, gendered ideologies -exchange, value, "transparency"

David Lempert

53 Trieu Viet Vuong
Hanoi, Vietnam
superlemp@yahoo.com
Regions: Russia, Ukraine
Topcis: legal culture, political culture -culture change, political violence

Manuela Leonhardt

Doct Cand, UC London
Dept. of Anthropology
Gower Street
London WC1E 6BT
UK
+44-171-380-7728f
m.leonhardt@ucl.ac.uk
- North Caucasus, Daghestan
-conflict, violence - politics of culture, gender

Alexandra N. Leontieva

1st Lecturer
Program in Community Interpreting - Tolkeutdanning
University of Bergen
Villaveien 1A, N-5007 Bergen, Norway
office +47 55 58 93 32
mobile +47 980 66 861
alexandra.leontieva@krr.uib.no, or aleontieva@mail.ru
http://www.hf.uib.no/i/russisk/leontieva.html
Regions: Russia, Russian diasporas in the "far abroad"
Topics: contemporary Russian literature (Sergei Dovlatov, Mikhail Weller) and urban folklore; gender and migration (Russian Women in Scandinavia); literature and folklore, genre interaction, gender and migration

Julia Lerner

PhD candidate
Sociology and Anthropology Department
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Van Leer Jerusalem Institute
julial@vanleer.org.il
Regions:Russia, Israel
Topcis:Social knowledge in transition, Post Soviet Social Sciences, Russians in Israel, cultural models, Migration and Identity

Theodore Levin

Asst Prof, Music
Dartmouth College
Hanover, NH 03755
+1-603-646-1393h +1-603-646-2551f
tlevin@dartmouth.edu
-Uzbekistan -Central Asia, Siberia
-ethnomusicology

Galina Lindquist

Dept of Social Anthropology
University of Stockholm
106 91 Stockholm
Sweden
+46 8 756 48 64office
aatmare@hotmail.com
-Urban Russia
-Religion, medical, consciousness, folk practices of magic and healing

Richard Lindstrom

Doct Cand, Chicago
425 N. Genesee ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90036
+1-323-653-5178h
rwl2@midway.uchicago.edu
-Eurasian steppe, Russia, Kazakhstan
-Bronze Age culture change -ethnicity and archaeology

Morgan Liu

Doct Cand, Anth
U Michigan
Dept of Anthropology
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1382
+1-734-764-9481h, +1-734-936-7974o
morgman@umich.edu
-Cen Asia, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Xinjiang
-phenomenology of place
-Soviet cities, local Islams

Katja Loderstedt

Doct Cand, U Birmingham
Armstrongstr. 21
D-06449 Aschersleben
Germany
+49-3473-2168
loderstedt@hotmail.com
-Russia, E Germany
-women, education -management

Ioana Luca

Lecturer, University of Bucharest
School of Foreign Languages and Literatures
7-13, Pitar Mos Street, sector 1
Bucharest, Romania
ioana.algiu@gmail.com
Region: Romania
Topics: Life-writing, literary and cultural studies

Patrik Lundh

Doct Cand, Anth,
University of California, Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz, CA 95064
831-252-9232
patriklundh@yahoo.com
- Russia, ethics, ideology, identity, language
- Person-centered anthropology, anthropology of morality

Agita Luse

PhD student
Bristol University, U.K.
Chair-person of Latvian Association of Anthropologists
Institute of Philosophy and Sociology
University of Latvia
Akademijas laukums 1, Riga, LV-1940, Latvia.
agital@yahoo.co.uk
http://antropologu_biedriba.tripod.com/EN/engli.html
Mobile: +371 6710721
Regions: Latvia, the Baltic states, other post-socialist countries.
Topics: Representations of mental distress. Cross-cultural psychiatry. Narrative analysis.

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Ruth Mandel

Lecturer, UC London
Dept of Anth
University College, London
Gower Street
London WCIE 6BT
ENGLAND
phone: + 44(0)207-679-8646
fax: + 44(0)207-679-8632
ucsarem@ucl.ac.uk
-Kazakhstan, Cen Asian republics
-privatization, dev't, media
-nat'sm, migration, Ethnic Germans

William Mandel

4466 View Place, Apt. 106,
Oakland, CA, 9461
USA
+1-510-655-2210
wmmmandel@earthlink.net
Regions: Former Soviet Union
Topics: Soviet social sciences, indigenous people, Soviet nationalities policy

Mariana Markova

PhD student
University of Washington,
Box 353100
Seattle, WA 98195-3100
USA
Tel: +1(206) 522-8845
mariana9@u.washington.edu
Regions: Russia, Bulgaria
Topics: (oral) life histories, cultural and economic transition, visual representations.

Fran Markowitz

Associate Professor, Department of Sociology & Anthropology
Ben Gurion University
Box 653 84105
Beersheva, ISRAEL
+972-8 651-9821(h) +972-8 647-2060(o) +972-8 647-2932 (f)
fran@bgu.ac.il
Region: Russia; Bosnia-Herzegovina
Topics: ethnicity, identity, adolescence, gender -individual/group interaction

William Martin

Dept. of Comparative Literature
University of Chicago
1050 E. 59th St.
Chicago, IL 60637
wm6@midway.uchicago.edu
Regions: Poland, East Germany, and Austria
Topics: Sovietization, construction of socialist culture, mass media, film, literature, and radio

Harutyn Marutyan

Senior Research Fellow
Department of Ethnography
Institute of Archeology and Ethnography
National Academy of Sciences of Armenia
15 Charents Str.,
Yerevan 375025
Armenia
Phone: + 3741 23-03-65
hmarutya@freenet.am ; hmarut@yahoo.com
Regions: Armenia, Caucasus
Topics: Modern National Movements and Changes of Ethnic Identity,
- Conflict Resolution, Ways of Reconciliation;
- Armenian Anthropology: Social Changes in Armenian Society at Transition; Traditional Armenian Culture (settlements, dwellings, furniture, handicrafts); Ethnic history.

Arthur L. Mason

Doct Cand
Dept of Anth, UC Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720-3710
+1-510-642-3391office +1-510-643-8557f
alm@uclink4.berkeley.edu
-Alaska Native retribalization
-migration to Alaska -Russian American history

Kazuto Matsumura

Inst for Cross-Cult Studies
Faculty of Letters, U of Tokyo
Hongo 7-3-1, Bunkyo-ku
Tokyo 113, JAPAN
+011-81-3-5800-3754o +011-81-3-5800-3740fax
-Estonian and Finnish linguistics

Susan Mazur-Stommen

Associate Research Anthropologist
University of California, Riverside
susanmazur@hotmail.com
+1(909) 779-9957
http://home.earthlink.net/~markusstommen/
Regions: Germany, the Baltic Region
Topics: Urban Anthropology, Space and Place, Aesthetics, Everyday Culture, Food, Children

Shauna McLarnon

International Federation of Red Cross
5 Cheriomushkinskiy Proezd, 2nd Floor
Moscow, Russia 117036
Tel. +7 (095)126-1566/ 126-7751/ 766-4625office
Fax +7 (095)937-5263
smclarnon@yahoo.com
-Russia, Siberia, Sakha, North
-indigenous Siberians, ethnicity, natsm -comparative social/poli/ecoc dev't

Katherine Metzo

Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Department of Sociology & Anthropology
University of North Carolina
9201 University Blvd
Charlotte, NC, 28223
USA
kmetzo@email.uncc.edu
Regions: Siberia, Buriatia, Western Ukraine
Topics: natural resource mgmt, sustainable development, household and informal economies, nationalism and identity

Dimitris Michalopoulos

Librarian, Academic adviser
"Eleutherios Venizelos" Institute for Historical Studies
2, Ch.Lada st., 10561 Athens
Greece
Tel.+210-3225560
evenizel@otenet.gr
Regions: Eastern Europe, Black Sea
Topics: History

Aleksandra Sasha Milicevic

John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellow in Peace and Conflict Studies
Colgate University
112 Alumni Hall
Hamilton, NY 13346 
Phone: (315)228-6695
amilicevic@mail.colgate.edu
Region: Former Yugoslavia
Topics: Political sociology, nationalism, masculinities, violence and sociological theory

Liesl L. Gambold Miller

Dalhousie University
Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology
6135 University Ave.
Halifax, N.S. B3H 4P9
Canada
tel +1(902) 494-3130, fax +1(902) 494-2897
lieslgambold@hotmail.com
Regions: Russia, Nizhnii Novgorod Oblast
Topics: peasants, agric reform, gender, household economy, culture change

Thomas R. Miller

Doct Cand, Columbia University
Anthropologist, Curatorial Consultants
619 East Seventh Street
2nd floor
Brooklyn, NY 11218
USA
+1-718-788-3758home, +1-718-462-3603office, +1-718-462-3603fax
polecat9@msn.com
http://www.muse-ology.org
Regions: Siberia, Alaska, Canada native peoples
Topics: ethnomusicology, shamanism, the arts; museums, history of anthropology

Beth Mitchneck

Associate Professor, Department of Geography and Regional Development
Harvill Box 2
University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ 85721
bethm@sbs.arizona.edu
Regions: Russia, Georgia
Topics: migration, migrants, governance, gender, livelihoods

Ivan I. Mitine

Dept. of Economical & Social Geography of Russia
Moscow State University
ul. Bolshaya Polyanka, 30-125
Moscow 119180 RUSSIA
tel. +7 095 2384295 (h)
imitin@tut.by
http://imitin.at.tut.by
Region: Russia
Topics: space & place images, complex geographical descriptions, place perception & imagination, spatial myths, local & regional identity, local communities, socio-cultural & economical development, tourism

David W. Montgomery

Department of Religion
Institute on Culture, Religion and World Affairs
Boston University
10 Lenox Street
Brookline, MA 02446 U.S.A.
Tel: (617) 353-9050
Fax: (617) 353-6408
dwm@bu.edu
Region:Central Asia, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan
Topics: religion, Islam, anthropology/sociology of knowledge, politics

Robert W. Montgomery

Assistant Professor of History
Baldwin-Wallace College
301 Marting Hall
275 Eastland Rd.
Berea, OH 44017
USA
+1-440-243-7908home, +1-440-826-2299office, +1-440-826-3264fax
rmontgom@bw.edu
http://www.bw.edu/academics/his/faculty/rmontgom/

Regions: Russia, Siberia
Topics: 20th century Russian/Soviet history, Buriats & other Siberian peoples

Irina Morozova

Lecturer
Academy of Culture and Arts, Chelyabinsk
a/ya 5040
454087 Chelyabinsk
Russia
Home: +7 3512-623300
mo-rel@yandex.ru
Regions:: Southern Urals
Topics: identity, post-communist studies

Florian Mühlfried

Research Fellow
Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
Advokatenweg 36
D-06114 Halle/Saale
Germany
tel. +49 - 345 - 2927 - 426
muehlfried@eth.mpg.de
Regions: Caucasus, particularly Georgia
Topics: political anthropology, citizenship, ritual, performance, identity, gender, cognitive anthropology

Ol'ga Murashko

Senior Researcher, MGU
Ul. Odoevskogo 7-5-595
117574 Moscow, RUSSIA
095-423-6140h
murkre@aha.ru
Region: Kamchatka
Topics: geneological study, human and ethnic rights

Maureen Murney

Department of Anthropology
University of Toronto
100 St. George Street
Sidney Smith Hall
Toronto, Ontario M5S 3G3
Canada
m.murney@utoronto.ca
Regions:Ukraine
Topics: medical anthropology, gender and reproduction; morality and health, fetal alcohol syndrome

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Maya Nadkarni

Doctoral Candidate
Columbia University
man17@columbia.edu
Region: Hungary
Topics: Hungary's Jewish community -Holocaust memorials -memory, visual/material culture

Orna Naftali

PhD Candidate
Department of Anthropology
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
orna@umail.ucsb.edu
Region:China
Topcis: family, childhood and education, modernity, globalization and the nation-state

Rebecca Nash

Independent Researcher
Imperial University
London
United Kingdom
rebecca.nash@blueyonder.co.uk
Region: Czech Republic
Topics: family, kinship, the state, gender

Vlad Naumescu

PhD Candidate
Max-Planck-Institute for Social Anthropology
Department 2, Postsocialist Eurasia
PO Box 11 03 51, 06017 Halle/Saale, Germany
office: +49 (0)345 29 27 208
naumescu@eth.mpg.de
http://www.eth.mpg.de
Regions: Western Ukraine, Romania

Zhanara Nauruzbayeva

PhD Candidate
Department of Cultural & Social Anthropology
Stanford University
Main Quad, Bldg 110
Stanford, CA 94305
USA
zhanara@stanford.edu
Regions: Kazakhstan
Topics: anthropology of the intelligentsia, film, reception studies, imaginaries, politicization, consumer capitalism

Vera S. Neveleva

Professor of Chelyabinsk Academy of Culture and Arts
454138 Chelyabinsk
Komsomolskaya St. 28/51
Nevelev@hotbox.ru
Region: Russia
Topics: Anthropology of philosophy and culture

Halim Nezihoglu

Ph.D. Candidate
Lecturer in Department of International Relations
International Ataturk Alatoo University, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
720048, Tunguch Microregion, Gorky Str.
Bishkek / KYRGYZSTAN
Tel: (996) 312 - 63 14 23Fax: +996 312 631432 / 631428
nezihoglu@yahoo.com
Regions: Central Asia, Kyrgyzstan
Topics: identity, ethnicity, nationalism

Beryl Nicholson

(Independent researcher)
12 Lavender Gardens,
Newcastle upon Tyne NE2 3DE
UK
Phone/fax +44 191 2812068
beryl6b@yahoo.co.uk
http://www.beryl-nicholson.co.uk
Regions: Albania and Balkans, Norway
Interests: rural sociology, women, social history, migration

Amy L. Ninetto

Assistant Professor
Department of Anthropology
Rice University
PO Box 1892
Houston, TX 77251
voice: +1-713-348-3117; fax +1-713-348-5455
email aninetto@rice.edu
Regions: Russia, Siberia
Topics: science, migration, globalization, Akademgorodok.

Lauren Ninoshvili

Doctoral Candidate in Ethnomusicology
Columbia University
421 W. 118th St., #32
New York, NY 10027
LN2106@columbia.edu
Region: Georgia
Topics: ethnomusicology, popular culture, cultural policy, diaspora

Liesbet Nyssen

PhD Candidate
International Institute for Asian Studies, Branch Office Amsterdam
Oudezijds Achterburgwal 185
1012 DK Amsterdam
Ph: +31-20-525-2178/3657; fax: +31-20-525-3658
lnyssen@fmg.uva.nl
http://www.iias.nl
Regions: Siberia, Mongolia, Central Asia
Topics: ethnomusicology, contemporary performing arts; ethnicity

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Orlanda Obad

Doctoral Candidate
University of Zagreb
Faculty of Philosophy
frnja@yahoo.com
Region: Croatia
Topics: cultural studies, postsocialist/postcolonial
studies, media theory, journalism, EU integration

Jon Olafsson

Professor, Faculty of Social Sciences
Bifröst University
311 Borgarnes, Iceland
jonolafs@bifrost.is
Tel.: +354 433 3065
Regions: Nordic countries, former Soviet Union
Topics: Political philosophy, Moral theory, Soviet History, Communism

Tatiana Omeltchenko

PhD student in Sociology,
Department of Sociology
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA 22904-4766
to3y@virginia.edu
Topics: post-Soviet nostalgia, nationalism, collective memory

Nathalie Ortar

Research fellow in Anthropology
ENTPE
Rue Maurice Audin
69518 Vaulx-en-Velin cedex
France
nathalie.ortar@equipement.gouv.fr
Region : Russia
Topics : dachas, rural-urban relations

Gail Osherenko

Research Scientist
Marine Science Institute
University of California
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-5131
USA
+1-805-893-7234
osherenko@bren.ucsb.edu
Regions: Siberia, Arctic
Topcis: Indigenous rights, environmental studies

Damiana-Gabriela Otoiu

Assistant lecturer
Faculty of Political Sciences, Bucharest University
8 Spiru Haret Street
010175, Bucharest, Romania
Tel : +40(21)3141268, Fax : +40(21)3133511
damiana.otoiu@icp.ro
Université Libre de Bruxelles, GASPPECO
(Groupe d'analyse socio-politique des pays d'Europe centrale et orientale Researcher)
44 Avenue Jeanne
1050, Bruxelles, Belgium
Tel : +32(0)26503454
dotoiu@ulb.ac.be
Regions: Central and Eastern Europe, Romania
Topics: Post-socialist transformation, re-privatization, property restitution, Jewish Communities

Serguei Alex. Oushakine

Ph.D. St.PbGU; Doct Cand, Anth, Columbia
1021 W. Upsal St.
Philadelphia, PA, 19119
+1-215-844-5404h
sao15@columbia.edu
Regions: Russia, concept of Motherland
Topics: transitional (gender/national) identity -consumption, Russian intelligentsia   

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Vladimir Padunov

Asst Prof, Slavic Studies
University of Pittsburgh
1421A Cathedral of Learning
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
+1-412-363-7180home, +1-412-624-5713office, +1-412-624-9714fax
padunov+@pitt.edu
Region: Russia
Topics: culture industry -visualization of culture

Maria Carmen Pantea

PhD candidate in Sociology
Faculty of Sociology and Social Work
" Babes Bolyai" University
3400 Kogalniceanu 2
Cluj Napoca
Romania
miapantea@yahoo.com
Regions: Eastern Europe, Romania
Topics: child labour in EEC, children economic migration from EEC, gender and education.

Lynda Y. Park

Assistant Director Russian and East European Center
104 International Studies Building, MC-487
910 South Fifth Street
Champaign, IL 61820
+1-217-333-6022office, +1-217-333-1582fax
lypark@uiuc.edu
http://www.reec.uiuc.edu
Regions: Russian history and anthropology, Siberia
Topics: Russian Geographical Society; colonial history, representation

Kathleen Parthé

Assoc Prof of Russian
Dept. of Mod Langs and Cultures
University of Rochester
104 Jefferson Road
Princeton, NJ 08540
+1-609-683-9523h, +1-609-258-2204f
parthe@uhura.cc.rochester.edu
Regions: Russia, Siberia
Topics: politics of russkost', cognitive mapping, spiritual geography, Russian Village Prose

Jennifer Patico

Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities/
Visiting Asst. Prof. of Anthropology
Haverford College
370 Lancaster Ave.
Haverford, PA 19041
USA
jjpatico@yahoo.com
Region: Russia (St. Petersburg)
Topics: consumption and material culture, globalization, social change and personhood, class and gender

Marianna Pavlovskaya

Associate Professor
Department of Geography, Hunter College - CUNY
695 Park Ave., New York, NY 10021
Ph.D. Program in Earth and Environmental Sciences
Graduate Center - CUNY
(212) 772-5320; (212) 772-5265 (main)
E-mail: mpavlov@hunter.cuny.edu
Topics: multiple economies, gender, urban transformation, GIS

Margaret Paxson

Senior Associate, Kennan Institute
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
1300 Pennsylvania Ave NW
Washington, DC 20004
202-691-4237
Margaret.Paxson@Wilsoncenter.org
Region: rural Russia
Topics: social memory, symbolism, narrative, calendrical cycles, healing practices

Anja Peleikis

Postdoc Fellow, Social Anthropologist
Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
Advokatenweg 36
06114 Halle/Saale
Germany
Phone: +49(0)3452927-308
e-mail: peleikis@eth.mpg.de
http://www.eth.mpg.de/people/peleikis
Region: Eastern Europe, Lithuania
Topics: Legal Pluralism, Memory Politics, Gender Relations, Anthropology of Place and Space, Migration

Mathijs Pelkmans

Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
Postbox 110351 Halle/S
Germany
+49-345-2927-209
pelkmans@eth.mpg.de
Regions: Caucasus (Georgia) and Central Asia (Kyrgyzstan)
Topics: borderlands, missionary encounters, transitology

Esther Peperkamp

Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
Advokatenweg 36
06114 Halle/Saale
tel. +49 (0) 345 2927 240
peperkamp@eth.mpg.de
Region: Poland
Topics: Religion and religious self, youth, anthropology of the (welfare) state, social movements and everyday life forms of protest

Dale Pesmen

Ph.D, U Chicago, Anthropology
7731 N Eastlake Terr.
Chicago, IL 60626
+1-773 764 3224
dale@pesmen.com
http://www.pesmen.com/
Region: Russia
Topics: self, soul

Ben Peters

MA Student, Stanford University, REEES
PhD Student, Columbia University, Communications
Phone: +1-801 812-3288
bjpeters@gmail.com
Regions: Ukraine, Russia, Central Asia
Topics: cultural history, social theory, Post-Soviet, democratization and economic transition.

Bo Petersson

Assoc Prof, Poli Sci
Lund University
PO Box 52, S- 221 00
SWEDEN
+46-(0)46-2220343
Bo.Petersson@svet.lu.se
Regions: Russian Federation, Central Asia. Perm, Volgograd, Khabarovsk
Topics: national self images, civic national identity, regional identities

Sonya S. Petkova

PhD Candidate
Department of Slavic Languages
Columbia University
419 West, 119th street Apt. 4A/1
New York , NY 10027
USA
sonyaji@gmail.com
+1(646) 509-5347
Regions: the Balkans (Bulgaria, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia , Macedonia, Serbia and Montenegro, Romania), Russia
Topics: Post-communist literature and visual arts (video, multimedia) in the Balkans in a political/economic context; the Internet as a medium for literary expression; post-1989 genres; memoirs and their therapeutic role, making sense of the communist past and re-creating a new civil identity; high vs. "low" (or democratic) literature. EU, open markets, Internet as means to introduce Balkan writer/artists to the West.

Hamlet L. Petrosyan

Senior Research Fellow
Department of Medieval Culture and Archaeology
Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography
National Academy of Sciences of Armenia.
15 Charents Str.,
Yerevan 375025
Armenia
phone: +374 1 35 32 30
hpetrosy@freenet.am
-Middle Eastern and Armenian Medieval Culture
-Settlements, handicrafts, monuments, cultural relations
-Traditional World-perception, Ethnic Identity and Iconography, Tolerance

Adriana Petryna

Assistant Professor
New School University
PetrynaA@newschool.edu
Regions: Ukraine, FSU
Topcis: anthropology of the body -cultural studies of science -Chernobyl, historical memory

Sarah D. Phillips

Assistant Professor
Department of Anthropology
Indiana University
130 Student Building
701 E. Kirkwood Ave.
Bloomington, IN 47405
(812) 855-0216
sadphill@indiana.edu
Regions: Ukraine, Russia, former Soviet Union
Topcis: Civil society and non-governmental organizations (NGOs), development, gender studies, medical anthropology, post-Chernobyl health and healing, and disability studies

John Pickles

Earl N. Phillips Distinguished Professor of International Studies
Department of Geography
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3220
jpickles@unc.edu
http://www.unc.edu/depts/geog/people/faculty/pickles/
Regions: Central and Eastern Europe
Topics: 1. Globalization and the political economy of peripheral capitalisms; 2. Space, society, and science-technology studies; 3. Politics and economies of place

Tim Pilbrow

Visiting Assistant Professor
Department of Anthropology
& The Russian, East European and Eurasian Center
The University of Illinois
109 Davenport Hall, MC-148
607 S. Mathews Ave.
Urbana, IL 61801
USA
Tel.: +1-217-265-6491
tpilbrow@uiuc.edu
Regions: Bulgaria, Serbia
Topics: history, education, national identity, irony

Hilary Pilkington

Professor of Sociology and Russian Studies
Director, Centre for Russian and East European Studies
European Research Institute
University of Birmingham
Elms Rd.
Birmingham B15 2TT
UK
Office: +44-121 414 6354, Fax: +44-121 414 3423
h.a.pilkington@bham.ac.uk
Region: Russia
Topcis: contemporary Russian society and culture, youth, youth culture, drug use among youth, cultural globalization, ethnic and national identities, migration

Kateryna Pishchikova

Amsterdam School for Social science Research
University of Amsterdam
Kloveniersburgwal 48
1012 CX Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Tel: +31 (0)20 525 3486/2262, Fax: +31 (0)20 525 2446
http://www.pscw.uva.nl/assr/index2.html
pishchikova@gmail.com
Region: Ukraine
Topics: NGOs, civil society, foreign aid to former Soviet Union, gender, discourse analysis

Abel Polese

PhD Candidate, Visiting Lecturer
EHESS of Paris, Institute of Theology and Liberal Arts, Odessa
abel@ehess.fr
Ul. Leningradskaya 1, Odessa,
Ukraine
Regions: Odessa and Kiev (Ukraine); Transdnistria (Moldova); Ajara (Georgia)
Topics: national and local identity, hospitality rituals, informal economy

Dmitriy Poletaev

127474 Moscow
Beskudnikovsky blvd 28-4-66
Russia
Home: +7 095 489-3414
DmPolet@stk.mmtel.ru
-CIS States,
-Illegal foreign labor force, international migration, "brain drain"

Monica Popescu

University of Pennsylvania
Comparative Literature and Literary Theory
720 Williams Hall
36th and Spruce Streets
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Office: +1-215-898-6836
mpopescu@sas.upenn.edu
-Romania
-Literature and cultural studies, feminism, post-colonialism

Anthony Potoczniak

Graduate Student
Rice University, Department of Anthropology-MS 20
6100 Main St, Houston, TX 77005
Work: (713) 348-2056; Fax: (713) 348-5455
topynot@rice.edu
Regions: Ukraine
Topics: native culture, cultural heritage, intellectual property, sound archives, ethnomusicology

Erin Prachun

Graduate Student - Cultural Anthopology
McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
erin.prachun@mail.mcgill.ca
Regions: Eastern Europe, specifically Ukraine
Topics: gender, post-socialist shifts, children and children's literature as gender indicators, urban Ukraine

Algis Prazauskas

Head.Comparative Politics Insitute of Oriental Studies
12 Ul. Rozhdestvenka
Moscow 103031
RUSSIA
+095-925-7384o, +095-122-0534h, +095-975-2396f
Regions: post-Soviet states
Topics: comparative ethnic politics -ethnicity, nationalism, identities

Daniel Prior

Research Institute for Inner Asian Studies
Indiana University            
Goodbody Hall 157
1011 East 3rd Street                 
Bloomington, IN 47405-7005 USA
+1-812-855-9510office, +1-812-855-7500fax
dprior@indiana.edu
Regions: Inner Asia, Siberia
Topics: folklore, linguistic anthropology, cultural history, epic poetry

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Nadege Ragaru

Institut de relations internationales et stratégiques (IRIS)
2 bis, rue Mercoeur
75011 Paris, France
tel: 00.33.1.43.36.96.61
Regions: Bulgaria, Macedonia, Kosovo, Albania
Topics: ethnicity, exchange of favors, political elites, conflict resolution.

Eugene Raikhel

Doctoral Candidate
Princeton University
Dept of Anthropology
100A Aaron Burr Hall
Princeton NJ, 08544
eraikhel@princeton.edu
Regions: Russia, St. Petersburg
Topics: alcohol, addiction, public health, anthropology of institutions, consumption, personhood, social transformation.

Harsha Ram

Asst Prof, Slavic Languages and Literatures
6303 Dwinelle Hall
University of California at Berkeley
Berkeley, CA. 94720-2979
510-642-4698w 510-642-6220f
hram@socrates.berkeley.edu
Regions: Caucasus, Cen Asia, Eurasianism
Topics: imperial discourse in Russian literature

David Ransel

Prof, Indiana U
2816 Churchill Ct.
Bloomington, IN 47401
+1-812-332-7124home, +1-812-855-7309office, +1-812-855-6411fax
ransel@indiana.edu
Regions: Russia, Tatarstan
Topics: social history, oral history

Johan Rasanayagam

Teaching Fellow
University of Aberdeen
Department of Anthropology
Aberdeen AB24 3QY
johan.rasanayagam@abdn.ac.uk
Region: Uzbekistan
Topics: state, civil society, Islam

Michael Rasell

PhD Candidate
Centre for Russian and East European Studies
University of Birmingham
Birmingham, B15 2TT
United Kingdom
michaelrasell@hotmail.com
Regions: Russia, Baltic States and Hungary
Topics: poverty, social exclusion, deprivation, marginality, consumption

Madeleine Reeves

Graduate Student
Department of Social Anthropology
University of Cambridge
Trinity College
Trinity Street
Cambridge CB2 1TL, UK
mfr21@cam.ac.uk
+44 (0)1223 461635
Regions: Kyrgyzstan, Ferghana Valley
Topics: Border politics and identities, Soviet legacy in Central Asia

Joanna Regulska

Director, CRCEES, Rutgers U
Assoc Prof of Geography
172 College Avenue
PO Box 5062
New Brunswick, NJ 08903
908-932-8551/1593 908-932-1144f
regulska@rutgers.edu

Lika Rygina

PhD-student Dpt.of Social Anthropology & Social Work
Saratov State Teсhnical University
Polytechnicheskaya 77
410054
Saratov Russia
tel +7(8452)201963
mail17@yandex.ru
Topics: networks and netwars, post-human, post-gender, cyborg politics, transnational (anti)social activism

Melinda Reidinger

Doct. Cand.
University of Virginia
Chotilsko
Krenicna 1 26203
Czech Republic
420 603 111 071
melindareidinger@tiscali.cz
CZECH REPUBLIC
Region: Czech Republich
Topics: town/country, land use, "nature"-based recreation, discourses on ecology, gardening, visual anthropology & historic use of still photography

Petra Rethmann

Associate Professor, Anthropology
McMaster University
1280 Main St.
West Hamilton, ON L8S 4L9
CANADA
905-525-9140, x23905w 905-777-9553h 905-525-5993f
rethman@mcmaster.ca
Regions: Kamchatka, Russian Far East
Topics: history and gender,land rights, citizenship and democracy

Tanya Richardson

PhD Candidate
Department of Social Anthropology
University of Cambridge
pryvit99@yahoo.com
Region: Odessa, Ukraine
Topics: space and place, history and memory, anthropology of cities, national and local identity

Nancy Ries

Associate Professor
Sociology and Anthropology
Colgate University
Hamilton, NY 13346
USA
315-228-7552w 315-824-4526h 315-228-7974f
nries@mail.colgate.edu
Region: Russia
Topics: discourses of suffering, narrative, identity, social reproduction

Jakob Rigi

Assistant Professor
Department of Anthropolgy
Cornell University
262 McGraw Hall
Ithaca,  NY 14853
USA
jr344@cornell.edu
Regions: Kazakhstan and Russsia
Topics: Commoditization, state, shadow states, market, sex-work, ethnic tensions, money

Egle Rindzeviciute

PhD candidate in Cultural Studies & Communications
Baltic & East European Graduate School
Södertörns University College
SE 141 89 Huddinge, Sweden
Mobile: + 46 73 919 24 83
egle.rindzeviciute@sh.se
Region: Lithuania
Topics: cybernetics,governance and cultural policy in Lithuania after the World War II

Michele Rivkin-Fish

Associate Professor
Department of Anthropology
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
301 Alumni Building CB #3115
Chapel Hill, NC 27599
919 843-8977
mrivk2@pop.uky.edu
Regions: Russia, St.Petersburg
Topics: gender, reproductive politics, reciprocity/exchange, the state, post-socialist change

Sean Roberts

Democracy and Media Specialist
USAID/CAR/Bishkek
c/o U.S. Embassy
171 Propect Mira
720016 Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
+996-312-551-241, ext. 4525
sroberts@usaid.gov
Regions: Central Asia, Uighurs
Topics: borderlands, migration, ethnicity, transnationalism, Soviet ethnography

Stella K. Rock

Research Fellow (Russian Nationalism)
University of Sussex
Falmer, Brighton BN1 9QN
Great Britain
tel: +44 (0)1273 678 837
stellarock@btopenworld.com
Regions: Russia
Topics: Russian Orthodoxy, nationalism, folklore and popular belief

Douglas Rogers

Havighurst Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Anthropology
164 Upham Hall
Miami University
Oxford, OH 45056
USA
rogersdj@muohio.edu
Regions: Russia, Moscow, Urals
Topics: anthropology of religion, ethnography of the state, rural economies, exchange, morality, historical anthropology, Old Believers

Denise Roman

Research Associate
UCLA Center for the Study of Women
288 Kinsey Hall
405 Hilgard Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1504
denizr@ucla.edu
Regions: Eastern Europe, Romania
Research Interests: gender, ethnicity, youth, popular culture

Aleksey Romanchuk

Lecturer, University "High Anthropological School"
Kisninev, Moldova
Coordinator, "Fun Anthropology" Research Centre
romanciuc1975@list.ru
www.moldo.org
Regions: Balkans, Moldova
Topics: Bronze and Early Iron Age in the Balkans,inter-ethnic relations in post-socialist Moldova

Roberta L. Rosell

Doct Cand, USF, Applied Anth.
13020 Leeds Ct. # A-14
Tampa, FL 33612
813-971-3341h
rrosell@luna.cas.usf.edu
-Russia; Central Asia
-HIV/AIDS; gender; >resource mgmt., epidemiology

Daniel M. Rosenberg

Prof of Anthropology
Sociology/Anthropology Dept.
Earlham College
Richmond, IN 47374
765-966-1997h 765-983-1257o 765-983-1207f
danr@earlham.edu
-Mongolia, nomads, ethnicity
-privatization, pol econ

Ino Rossi

Prof of Sociology/Anth
St. John's University (NYC)
235 Shoreward Drive
Great Neck, NY 11021
516-482-7679h 718-990-6295/6o 718-990-1894f
-economic modernization -entrepreneurship, disaster studies

Robert Rotenberg

Editor, Anth of Eastern Europe Rev.
International Studies Program
DePaul University
2323 N. Seminary Ave.
Chicago, IL 60614
rrotenbe@depaul.edu

Maria R. Roti

Graduate Student (PhD), Department of Anthropology
Wayne State University
65 Manoogian Hall
Detroit, MI 48202
mariaroti@yahoo.com
Region: Russia
Topics: economic transformations

Natalia Roudakova

Doct Cand, Anth
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305-2145
650-725-0605f
Natalia.Roudakova@stanford.edu
-Russia, Tatarstan, Kazan
-"middle class" id. and lifestyles -discourses of "dev't" and "progress"

Rémy Rouillard

PhD Candidate
Department of Anthropology
McGill University, Montreal
remy.rouillard@mail.mcgill.ca
Regions: Siberia (Chukotka), Estonia
Topics: Interethnic relations, nationalism, oil industry, science and ideology in the post-Cold war era, Indigenous populations

Larissa Rudova

Associate Professor of Russian
Pomona College
550 N. Harvard Ave.
Mason Hall
Claremont, CA 91711
Tel.:+1 (909) 621-8649, Fax: +1 (909) 621-8065
lrudova@pomona.edu
Region: Russia
Topics: Soviet and post-Soviet lit. and culture, art, film

Ashurbekov Rozmat

PostDoc researcher
Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Currently changing work place
rozimat44@mail.ru
Regions: Central Asia, North America
Interests: post-socialist culture, comparison of culture, cross-and inter- cultural
management

Peter Rutland

Assoc Prof, Gov't
Wesleyan U
116 Public Affairs Center
Middletown, CT 06459
203-635-7745h 203-347-9411o 203-343-3918f
-Russia, Czech Republic
-nationalism, labor -entrepreneurship

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Dessislav Sabev

post-doctoral researcher
Department of Geography
McGill University
805 Sherbrooke West
Montreal, Qc, Canada
H3A 2K6
phone: 514.725.1297
dessislav.sabev@mail.mcgill.ca
Regions: Kola Peninsula, Barents region, Russia and the circumpolar North; Bulgaria and Romania.
Topics: renewable resource use, reindeer herding, local knowledge and science; cultural landscapes, anthropology of the body, discourse analysis.

Rustam Sabirov

PhD, Research Fellow
Moscow State University,
Institute of Asian and African Studies,
11 Mokhovaya St., Moscow, 103009, Russia.
office telephone number:+7(095) 2032536
e-mail: rs@iaas.msu.ru
Regions: Mongolia, Tibet, Central Asia
Topics: History of Religions in Mongolia and Tibet, History of Buddhism, Religious Processes in the Postsocialist Mongolia

Paula L.W. Sabloff

Sr. Research Scientist, Museum of Archeology and Anthropology,
Adj. Assoc Professor, Department of Anthropology
University of Pennsylvania
3260 South St.
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6324
215-898-4121w 215-898-0657f
psabloff@sas.upenn.edu
http://www.upenn.edu/museum/mongolia
Region: Mongolia
Topics: democratization, political culture

Natalia Sadomskaia

Lecturer, RGGU
Konnkovskii Proezd 13, kv. 93
125565 Moscow
RUSSIA
095-452-5466h
-Russia
-ethnicity, gender role, rituals
-political anthropology, conflict, revolution & tradition

Fereydoun Safizadeh

Lecturer, Boston University
Department of Anthropology
232 Bay State Road
Boston, MA 02215
617-353-2198w 617-491-4125h
safi@bu.edu
-Caucasus, Azerbaijan, Iranian Azerbaijan, ME
-pol/eco'c anth, ethnicity, nationalism
-transnational identity, docu. film

Hulya Sakarya

Visual Anthropology
Temple University
sakarya@temple.edu
+1(215)849-1388 (h)
Region: Republic of Georgia
Topics: identity, Adjaran identity/muslim politics, role of photography before/after Soviet collapse, domestic living space, border relations

Michaela Schäuble

Ph.D. candidate and lecturer
Institute for Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology
Tübingen University
Schloss
72070 Tübingen, Germany
michaela_schaeuble@web.de
Region: Eastern Europe, former Yugoslavia
Topics: Conflict and gender, memory, landscape , Visual anthropology and ethnographic film

John Schoeberlein

Director
Harvard Program on Central Asia and the Caucasus
Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
1730 Cambridge St., CGIS-South, Room S327
Cambridge, MA 02138
USA
+1-617-495-4338office; +1-617-495-8319fax
schoeber@fas.harvard.edu
http://centasia.fas.harvard.edu/index.html
Regions: Central Asia, Islam in Russia
Topcis: identity, nationalism, conflict resolution; political anthropology, history of Soviet ethnography, development

Theodore Schurr

Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology
Consulting Curator, Physical Anthropology Section, Museum of Archeology and Anthropology
University of Pennsylvania
325 University Museum
33rd and Spruce Streets
Philadelphia, PA. 19104-6398
+1-215-573-7632office, +1-215-898-7462fax
tgschurr@sas.upenn.edu
Regions: Eastern Siberia, Kamchatka, Chukotka.
Topics: human populationn genetics, biological anthropology, human biodiversity, evolutionary medicine

Sam Schueth

Ph.D Student in Geography, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
414 Social Sciences Building
267 19th Ave South
Minneapolis, MN 55455
612-625-6080
schu1341@umn.edu
Regions: Georgia, Caucasus, FSU
Topics: entrepreneurship, economic formalization, state and market formation

Peter Schweitzer

Professor, Anthropology
University of Alaska Fairbanks
Department of Anthropology
310 Eielson, PO Box 757720
Fairbanks, AK 99775-7720
+1-907-474-0569home, +1-907-474-5015office, +1-907-474-7453fax
ffpps@uaf.edu
Regions: Siberia/Russian Far East (Chukotka, Sakha), Kazakhstan
Topics: kinship, politics, identity, ethnicity; comparative and historical perspectives

David Scrivener

Lecturer in International Relations
Department of International Relations
Keele University
Keele Staffs ST5 5BG
ENGLAND
+44-1630-655510home, +44-1782-583212office, +44-1782-583088fax
d.scrivener@keele.ac.uk
-Arctic, Russian Arctic
-Soviet/Russian foreign policy
-Arctic environmental cooperation

Olga Sezneva

Collegiate Assistant Professor
Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts
Social Sciences Collegiate Division
The University of Chicago
Gates-Blake Hall, Room 316
5845 S. Ellis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60637
Tel: +1-773.702.9918 Fax: +1-773.702.0493
sezneva@uchicago.edu
Region: Russia, Turkey
Topics: history and memory; urban development; history and politics of area studies.

M. Nazif Shahrani

Prof, Anth
Indiana University
Goodbody Hall, Room 313
Bloomington, IN 47405
812-332-8868h 812-855-0076 812-855-7500f
-Muslim Central Asia, ME
-anth of Islam, pol movements

Elizabeth Beiswenger Shea

PhD Candidate, Scott Polar Research Institute
Cambridge University
Lensfield Road
(+44)7800579119
eb320@cam.ac.uk
Region: Russian Far East
Topics: Oligarchic Administration and Indigenous Political Movements in the
Chukotka Autonomous Okrug and the Russian Far East

Stanislav Shectman

Visual Anthropology
Temple University
Department of Anthropology
Gladfelter Hall, 2nd Floor
Philadelphia, Pa. 19122-1061
+1 (215) 978-7078 (h)
shectman@temple.edu
Region: Russia
Topics: media; art & performance; food; identity/subjectivity; globalization; memory, nostalgia, and the aesthetics and politics of public/private space in post-socialist Moscow and St. Petersburg

Stuart Shields

Lecturer
Centre for International Politics
School of Social Sciences
University of Manchester
Manchester UK
email: stuart.shields@manchester.ac.uk
Region:Central and Eastern Europe
Topics: globalization, transnational dimensions of post-socialism, class formation in post-socialist state.

Eleine Sheppel

Dean, Eureka Free U, Moscow
Doctoral Candidate, Columbia U.
254 73rd St., #C2
Brooklyn, NY 11209
718-833-7990h, f
-self identification in culture

Vladimir Shkolnikov

Chair, Ctr. for Demography Institute of Economic Forecasting
Ul. Krasikova, 32
Moscow 117148
RUSSIA
095-332-4397w, 095-310-7071f
zakhar@glas.apc.org
-Russia, population dynamics
-human reproduction, mortality

Natalia Shostak

Assistant Professor
Religious Studies and Anthropology
St. Thomas More College
University of Saskatchewan
1437 College Drive
Saskatoon, SK, S7N 0W6
CANADA
+1-306-966-8958 office, +1-306-966-8904 fax
natalia.shostak@usask.ca
Regions: Ukraine, Western Canada
Topics: Narrative constructions of identity; transnationalism; ethnicity, post-socialist folk studies

Ros Shreeves

Doct Cand
U of Wolverhampton, UK
Centre for Rural Dev't and Training
293 Chausée de la Hulpe
1170 Brussels, BELGIUM
+32 2 673 4404h
ros.shreeves@usa.net
Regions: CentralAsia, Kazakstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia
Topcis: gender, development, agrarian reform, social change, memory, identity

Meghan Simpson

Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Gender Studies
Central European University
Budapest, Hungary
gphsim01@ceu.hu
Region: Kyrgyzstan and Central Asia
Topics: gender, ethinicity, nation, state; NGOs and civil society; women's organizing

Yuri Slezkine

Assoc Prof of History
Department of History
U of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720
510-642-2224h 510-549-2812o 510-643-5323f
slezkine@berkeley.edu
-Russia, Siberia
-history of anthropology -ethnicity, nationalism

Edward Snajdr

Doctoral Candidate
Department of Anthropology
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
412-362-3484h 412-648-7500o
Region: Slovakia, Central Europe
Topics: nationalism, politics, environment

Anatoly Snissarenko

39\2 Prospekt Veteranov kv.58
St. Petersburg 198255
RUSSIA
+7-812-152-9738h
-NW Russia, Chernozemnyi R
Regions: Estonia, Ukraine
Topcis: development, peasant life, urban migration

Corinna Snyder

Context Integration
5 Hanover Square
New York, NY 10004
USA
+1-212-785-6100, x111 w
Region: Lithuania
Topics: post-independence -identity, historiography

Katherine C. Sredl

PhD Candidate
Institute of Communications Research
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
810 South Wright Street MC 463
Urbana, IL 61801
+1-217 244 1957
sredl@uiuc.edu
Regions: Croatia, former Yugoslavia, Southeastern Europe, Central Europe
Topics: ethnography, consumption, advertising, identity

Nikolai Ssorin-Chaikov

University of Cambridge
Department of Social Anthropology
Free School Lane
Cambridge CB2 3RF UK
+44-1223-334599office, +44-1223-763083direct, +44-1223-335993fax
ns267@cam.ac.uk
Regions: Siberia, Evenki
Topics: exchange theory

Florian Stammler

Scott Polar Research Institute
University of Cambridge
Lensfield Road
Cambridge CB2 1ER, England
Tel +44 1223 336566, Fax +44 1223 336549
English: fms36@cam.ac.uk
êÛÒÒÍËÈ: stammler@mail.ru
Regions: European Russian North, Siberia, Yamal, Yakutia, Nentsy, Khanty, Sakha
Topics: Economic and ecological anthropology, indigenous peoples and resource extraction, reindeer pastoralism, environmental knowledge, native self government, centre-periphery relations.

Ivor Stodolsky

Doctoral Candidate
Helsinki University
Departments of Political Science and Russian
Helsinki, Finland
BA Bristol, MRes London
Tel: +358 40 725 4050; In Russia: +7 911 74 821 77
ivor.stodolsky@helsinki.fi
Regions: Russia, Eastern Europe
Topics: Late and post-Soviet art and politics, the intelligentsia, the underground and its transformations, youth culture, St. Petersburg, Eurasiansim and geopolitics, social theory and philosophy.

Svetlana Stephenson

Senior Lecturer in Comparative Sociology
London Metropolitan University
Ladbroke House
62-66 Highbury grove
London N5 2AD
United Kingdom
s.stephenson@londonmet.ac.uk
Region: Russia
Topics: homelessness, street children, oppositional youth subcultures, criminal youth gangs.

Gregg Sullivan

North Cascades National Park
728 Ranger Stn. Road
Marblemount, WA 98267
206-873-9001h 206-873-4590 x22o 206-873-4590 x1562f
Region: Pacific NW archeology
Topic: upper Paleolithic and Mesolithic of European Russia & NE Asia

Brooke Swafford

Ph.D. student
Anthropology Department
Indiana University
130 Student Building
701 E. Kirkwood Ave.
Bloomington, IN 47405
pswaffor@indiana.edu
Regions: Russia/Siberia, Central Asia
Topics: Aga Buryats, shamanism and neo-shamanism, gender, ethnographic film, Russian independent media, nomadic pastoralists, folklore

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Hiroki Takakura

Assoc Prof
Ctr for NE Asian Studies
Tohuko Univ
Kawauchi, Aoba-ku, Sendai
980-8576 Japan
+81-22-217-7572
nvsht01@yahoo.co.jp
http://www5e.biglobe.ne.jp/~takakura/
Regions: Siberia, Yakutia, N Pacific Rim
Topics: subsistence, reindeer herding -land use, nationalism

George Tarkhan-Mouravi

Co-director
Institute for Policy Studies
PO Box 158 (4), 0108 Tbilisi, GEORGIA
office: +995 32 912743 / 220060; fax: +995 32 220060
gia@ips.ge
Regions: Georgia, the Caucasus, FSU
Topics: politics, sociology, public policy, development

Niobe Thompson

Killam Fellow
Deptartment of Anthropology
Room 13-15, Tory Building
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta
T6G 2H4
Canada
tel: +1-492-3879, Fax: +1-780-492-5273
n.thompson.01@cantab.net
AIM: niobethompson@mac.com
Region: Chukotka
Topic: social change and identity in the non-indigenous population

Kenneth J Thomson

Professor of Agricultural Economics
Department of Land Economy
University of Aberdeen
St Mary's, Elphinstone Road
Aberdeen AB24 3UF, Scotland
United Kingdom
Tel: +44-1224-274138, Fax: +44-1224-273487
k.j.thomson@abdn.ac.uk
Regions: Central Europe, China
Topics: agricultural policy, EU enlargement, rural development, forest policy and economics

Anna Tikhomirova

PhD Candidate
University of Bielefeld
Department of East European History
Universitätsstraße 25
D-33615 Bielefeld
http://www.uni-bielefeld.de/geschichte/osteuropa/
anna_tikhomirova1978@yahoo.de
Regions: Russia, Germany
Topics: socialist and post-socialist consumer cultures, fashion studies, fashion under dictatorship, women studies, everyday history, oral history, history of memory, comparative history, cultural history of Soviet architecture, history and theory

Valery A. Tishkov

Director, Inst. of Ethnol and Anth
32A Leninskii Prospekt
Moscow 117334
RUSSIA
eawarn@mail.ru
Regions: Siberia, Caucasus
Topcis: Politics, nationalism, war

Khachig Tololyan

Professor, Wesleyan U
Wesleyan Station
Middletown, CT 06459-0100
401-351-5041h
203-685-3628o 203-685-3621f
ktololyan@wesleyan.edu
Regions: Armenia, Transcaucasus
Topcis: Armenian nationalism, transnationalism, culture, politics, diaspora rlns.

Frances Trix

Assoc Professor Dept. of Anthropology
Wayne State U
645 Riverview Drive
Ann Arbor, MI 48104
734-665-3141 313-577-6795
ftrix@umich.edu
Regions: Albanian diaspora (Albania,Kosova,Macedonia)
Topics: Muslim communities, discourse analysis -language issues

Susanna Trnka

Department of Anthropology
P.B. 92019
University of Auckland
Auckland, New Zealand
Ph. 64-9-373-7599 ext. 85316
s.trnka@auckland.ac.nz
Regions:Czech Republic
Topics: political anthropology, violence, nationalism, memory, gender

Silvia Trogu

Lecturer in Italian Language
University of Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Mobile: 00387.65.804866
silviatr@libero.it
Regions: Balkans, East Europe
Topics: education, cultural policy, semiotics of culture;
transnationalism, multiple identities, borderlands.

Erica L. Tucker

Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Department of Sociology & Criminology
Stonehill College
320 Washington Street
Easton, MA 02357
Tel.: 508-565-1278
etucker@stonehill.edu
Region: Poland, East Europe
Topics: Memory, history, commemoration, social justice, urban anthropology

Tuula Tuisku

Fellow, University of Oulu
Giellagas/Sami Studies
Box 1000
90014 Oulun yliopisto
Finland
Office: +358-8-553 3282
Fax: +358-8-553 3488
Mobie: +358-40-8617917
tuula.tuisku@oulu.fi
Regions: Nentsy, northern communities in northern Russia and Scandinavia
Topics: adaptive strategies, reindeer herding, socio-economic change

Kevin Tuite

Professor
Dept d'anthropologie
U de Montreal
C.P. 6128, Succursale centre-ville
Montreal H3C 3J7
CANADA
+1-514-343-6514office, +1-543-343-2494fax +1-514-344-9280home
tuitekj@anthro.umontreal.ca
http://www.philologie.com
Region: Caucasus, esp. Georgia
Topcis: linguistics, mythology, traditional religion

Olga Tunina

Graduate student
Moscow State Univesity
gadibusa@mail.ru
Topcis: teaching foreign language and culture, international adoption, pedagogy, psychology.

Edith Turner

Lecturer
Department of Anthropology
University of Virginia
107 Carrsbrook Drive
Charlottesville, VA 22901
804-973-6986h 804-924-7044o 804-924-1350f
elt9w@virginia.edu
Regions: Arctic, Siberian Yupik
Topics: ritual, symbol, healing, humanism -subjectivity/objectivity  

Tiffany Tuttle

MA Cand., Anthropology
Washington State University
4507 SR 270
Pullman, WA 99163
+1-509-332-6237
tiff_tut@hotmail.com
Region: Kyrgyzstan
Topics: textiles, globalization, culture change

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Greta Uehling

Ph.D., Anth, U Mich
2305 Placid Way
Ann Arbor, MI 48105
+1-734-669-4406
gretau@umich.edu
Regions: Crimea, Central Asia
Topcis: diaspora, migration -transnationalism

Olga Ulturgasheva

PhD candidate, Scott Polar Research Institute
University of Cambridge
Lensfield Road
Cambridge CB2 1ER
England
ou202@cam.ac.uk
Region: Russian North
Topics: Reindeer herding communities; indigenous youth; issues of generation, gender, time and space

Andreas Umland

Editor, "Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics & Society" book series (http://www.ibidem-verlag.de/r1l.html)
Permanent mailing address:
Am Rosenweg 1
D-07751 Jena
Germany
home: +49-(0)36425-50530
umland@stanfordalumni.org
Regions: Russia and Ukraine, Germany
Topics: right-wing extremism, fascism, ultra-nationalism, human rights, higher education reform, technical assistance

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Nikolai Vakhtin

Rector
European University in St. Petersburg
ul. Gagarinskaia, d.3
St. Petersburg
191187 Russia
RUSSIA
+7-812-273-34-89home, +7-812-275-52-57office, +7-812-275-51-39fax
nik@eu.spb.su
Regions: Arctic, Siberia, Russian Far Northeast, Chukotka
Topics: sociolinguistics, language shift, creolization; transfer of indigenous knowledge

Zhivka Valiavicharska

PhD Student
Department of Rhetoric
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720
zhivka@berkeley.edu
Region: Southeastern Europe
Topics: visual culture, modern social and political thought, postcolonial studies

Elizabeth F. Vann

Assistant Professor
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Lehigh University
681 Taylor Street
Bethlehem, PA 18015
USA
voice: 1+610-758-3819; fax: 1+610-7586552
email: elv4@lehigh.edu
Region: Vietnam
Interests: globalization, capitalism, consumption, intellectual property

Victor Varis

Doct Candidate, Education
Portland State University
1748 SE 12th Ave
Portland, OR 97214
USA
+1-503-232-1891h
vicvaris@earthlink.net
Regions: Lithuania, Russia, Siberia
Topics: postsecondary leadership & policy, nation building, moral character in education

Virginie Vaté

Research fellow
Siberian Studies Centre, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
Postbox 11 03 51
D-06017 Halle/Saale
Germany
vate@eth.mpg.de
www.eth.mpg.de
office: +49 (0) 345 29 27 235
Region : Chukotka
Topics : gender, anthropology of religion, environmental knowledge and relation to 'nature', anthropology of domestication

Katherine Verdery

Eric R. Wolf Professor of Anthropology
University of Michigan
218 B West Hall
550 East University
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1092
+1-734-764-3463, fax, +1-734-763-6077
kverdery@gc.cuny.edu
Regions: Romania, Eastern Europe

Muriel Vernon

Graduate Student
Socio-Cultural Anthropology
University of California, Santa Barbara
muriel_vernon@umail.ucsb.edu
Regions:
Research interests:Russia
Modern Russia, Globalization, Global Capitalism, and its intersections with Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender issues.

Piers Vitebsky

Head of Social Science and Russian Studies
Scott Polar Research Institute
Lensfield Road
Cambridge CB2 1ER
England
+44-1223-336554w, 210276 h, 336571f
pv100@cam.ac.uk
Region: indigenous peoples of Siberia and Russian Far East, India
Topics: psychology and symbolism of shamans, reindeer herders & mining; economy

Stephane Voell

PostDoc
Philipps-University
Institute for Comparative Cultural Research
Kugelgasse 10
D-35032 Marburg
Germany
+49 6421 282 2036
voell@staff.uni-marburg.de
Regions: Albania, Georgia
Topics: legal pluralism, communication, identity

Asta Vonderau

PhD Candidate
Department for European Ethnology
Humboldt University Berlin
Mohrenstraße 40/41, D - 10117 Berlin
Germany
tel.: +49(30) 2093 3703, fax.: +49(30) 2093 3726
asta.vonderau@web.de
Region: Lithuania
Topics: social elites, consumption and lifestyle, europeanization processes

Miklos Voros

Doct Cand, U of Chicago
809 E Kingsley St., Apt. 26
Ann Arbor, MI 48104
313-997-9178h
miklos@midway.uchicago.edu
Region: Hungary, East-Central Europe
Topics: consumption and identity, border trading, markets

Nikolai Vukov, Ph.D.

Institute of Folklore
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Sofia 1113
Acad. Georgi Bonchev Str., bl. 6
tel: ++3592 979 3055 ++3592 979 3011 ++888 534984
nikolai.vukov@gmail.com
Region: Eastern Europe
Topics: socialist monuments and memorial culture, ethnography of socialism and everyday life in socialist and post-socialist Eastern Europe.

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James M. "Tim" Wallace

Assoc Prof of Anthropology Sociology & Anthropology
North Carolina State University
Box 8107
Raleigh, NC 27695-8107
919-515-9025w 919-781-8655h 919-515-2610f
tim_wallace@ncsu.edu
Regions: Hungary, Romania
Topics: ecotourism, applied anth, capitalism, cultural studies

Richard "Dickie" Wallace

Doct Cand, U Mass
Box 34805
Amherst, MA 01002
+1-413-545-0696h
dk@anthro.umass.edu
Regions: East-Central Europe/Balkans, fieldwork in Slovakia & Croatia
Topics: mass media, journalism, nationalism, patriotism, ideology, cultural studies (04)

Nancy Peterson Walter

Cerro Coso Community College
Mammoth and Bishop Extension Box 2383
Mammoth Lakes, CA 93546
619-934-1767h 619-934-4406f
73617.326@compuserve.com
Regions: Kyrgyzstan, Xinjiang
Topics: ethnohistory, status of women, culture change

Cathy Wanner

Assistant Professor of History
Department of History
108 Weaver Building
Penn State University
University Park, PA 16802
cew10@psu.edu
Tel: 814-865-6689
Fax: 814-863-7840
Regions: Ukraine and former Soviet Union
Topics: migration, religion, nationalism, diaspora

Isabella Warren

Russian Bibliographer
Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge, Lensfield Rd,
Cambridge, United Kingdom CB2 1ER
Tel: +44 1223-336565
imtw1@cam.ac.uk
http://www.spri.cam.ac.uk

Daniel Washburn

PhD student, Anthropology
London School of Economics
d.g.washburn@lse.ac.uk
Region: Russia
Topics: religion, religious conversion, missionaries, Christianity, globalization, cultural dynamics of trust and cooperation

David Waskowski

Department of Geography
University of Wisconsin-Madison
550 North Park St.
Madison, WI 53705
dmwaskowski@wisc.edu
Regions: Baltic States, Riga
Topics: social identity, urban change

Hibi Watanabe

Doct Cand, Anth
U Tokyo
Nakamachi 379-11, Kodaira-shi
Tokyo, #187-0042
JAPAN.
423-46-0250 o/f
hibi-wat@msg.biglobe.ne.jp
-xUSSR, E Europe, Siberia, Buriatia
-political and historical anth
-civil society, ethnicity
-culture as modern'n, postmodernism

Dorothy Weaver

Rutgers University
131 George Street
Anthropology Department
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
dcweaver@eden.rutgers.edu
dweaver1@rpprog.com
Regions: Russia, North America
Topics: religion, gender, health, immigrant populations

David A. Weber

Doct Cand, Anth
Univ of Wisconsin-Madison
5240 Social Science Bldg.
1180 Observatory Dr.
Madison, WI 53706
608-286-8784
daweber@students.wisc.edu
-urban Russia (Moscow)
-hist/cultural reconstructions
-identity, natsm, popular culture

Maria M. Weir

Public Health Research Coordinator
University of Kansas Medical Center (KUMC)
USA
Home: +1(913)424-5976
mweir@kumc.edu or yozing@yahoo.com
Regions: Central Asia, Uzbekistan
Topics: Medical, Sociocultural, Applied, and Political Anthropology. Health disparities, international development (poverty reduction, governance issues, health, etc), political change, human rights, democratization, civil society development, ethnic groups and relations, the Luli of Central Asia, gender issues, and religion.

Cynthia Werner

Deptartment of Anthropology
MS 4352
Texas A&M University
College Station, TX, 77843-4352
+1-909-625-6132home +1-979-847-9254office; +1-909-626-4983fax
werner@tamu.edu
Regions: Central Asia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia
Topics: economic anthropology - household economies, gift exchange, social networks, consumption, migration; risk perceptions - radiation and nuclear testing

Suzanne Wertheim

Assistant Research Scientist
The Center for Advanced Study of Language
University of Maryland
PO Box 25
College Park, MD 20742
suzannewertheim@gmail.com
Region: Tatarstan
Topics: language shift and preservation, language politics and ideologies, gender and language

Heather Weyrick

PhD student
Anthropology
New York University
hweyrick@nyu.edu
Region: Poland
Topics: memory of collective trauma, Holocaust tourism, 20th century avant-garde theater

Andrew Wiget

Assoc. Professor of English and Dir of New Mexico Heritage Center
New Mexico Heritage Center, Box 3E
New Mexico State University
Las Cruces, NM 88003
505-647-3439w 505-646-7725f
awiget@nmsu.edu
-Siberia, Khanty
-traditional land use, folklore, religion

William Willard

Professor
Department of Anthropology
Washington State University
Pullman, WA 99164
+1-509-335-2332
wwillard@mail.wsu.edu
Region: US anthropologists working in pre-1941 USSR
Topics: history of anthropology

Mickaël Wilmart

Centre d'Anthropologie Religieuse Européenne
Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales
54, boulevard Raspail
75006 Paris
France
wilmart@ehess.fr
Regions : Albania
Topics : religion, culture, identities, communism

Dr. Emma Wilson

Independent social-environmental consultant
33 Ekin Road
Cambridge. CB5 8PS
United Kingdom
emma_c_wilson@hotmail.com
Regions: Primary focus on the Russian Far East
Topics: Socio-economic development in Russian northern communities (Native and non-Native); Interface between academic research and practical application; methodology & ethics; Interaction between local (communities/governments) and global (industry/NGOs); Development issues related to natural resource management; Public participation in decision-making (related to natural resource management); Social impacts of extractive industries (esp. oil and gas); Protected area management and public involvement; Local self-organisation and self-representation

Daphne Winland

Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Deptment of Anthropology
York University
Downsview, ON M3J 1P3
CANADA
+1-416-736-5261w +1-416-736-5768f
winland@yorku.ca
Regions: Croatia, former Yugoslavia, Canada
Topics: politics of identity, diaspora, nationalism, diaspora relations, transnationalism

Erika Wolf

Assistant Professor
Deptment of Art and Art History
Univ of Rochester, Box 270645
Rochester, NY 14627-0465
ewlf@mail.rochester.edu
+1-715-275-4112
ewlf@mail.rochester.edu
Regions: Russia, Eastern Europe
Topics: visual cult, print media, public art, documentary, narrative, modernism

Thomas C. Wolfe

Asst Prof of History
University of Minneapolis
267 19th Ave.
South Minneapolis, MN 55455
612.624.1886w 651.645.6585h 612.624.7096f
wolfe023@tc.umn.edu
Regions: Russia, Europe, fSU, media
Topics: governmentality, ideology, Marxism, socialism, power

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Lale Yalcin-Heckmann

Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Max Planck Inst for Social Anthropology
Postbox 110351
06017 Halle/Saale
GERMANY
+49-345-2927102f
yalcin@eth.mpg.de
http://www.eth.mpg.de/people/yalcin
-Azerbaijan, Turkey, Kurds, Germany
-property rel'ns, rural anth, eco'c anth -nationalism,tribal structures, gender

Sally Yerkovich

President
Fund for Arts and Culture in Central and Eastern Europe
250 South End Avenue
New York, New York 10280 USA
212-786-3462 fax 212-786-1285
www.fundforartsandculture.org
http://www.fundforartsandculture.org
sy@pipeline.com
Regions: Russia, Siberia, Russian Far East
Topics: material culture, museology

Valery Yevarouski

Head of Department
Philosophical, Social and Political Thought
Institute of Philosophy
National Academy of Sciences of Belarus
Surganova vulitza 1/2 , 220072, Minsk, Belarus
Office: (375 17) 2842925
valewr@tut.by
Regions: Belarus, East Europe, Poland
Topics:  intellectual history of East Europe, Belarusian political and philosophical thoughts

Tsing Yuan

History Department
Wright State University
Dayton, OH 45435
USA
tsingyuan@msn.com 
Region: Siberia
Topic: History

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Russell Zanca

Asst Prof, Anth
Northeastern Illinois U
5340 N. Lowell #203
Chicago, IL 60630-1772
773-588-6474h
rzanca@neiu.edu
Topcis: oral history, family life, gender, post-colonialism, postsocialism, writing culture, peasant-state interaction

Zhixiong He

Department of Anthropolog
University of Massachusetts-Amherst
zhixiong@schoolph.umass.edu
Regions: China, Russia, Souteast Asia
Topcis: cross-border migration, trafficking in women and children, and the feminization of cross-border migration from China to Thailand and from Vietnam to China. Recently I have been developing a research project on the female Russian migrants from the Russian Far East into Northeastern China, through which I hope to obtain some understanding of the role of social networking of the Russian migrants in facilitating their integration into the Chinese society.

Jarrett Zigon

Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
Halle an der Saale, Germany
jarrettzigon@yahoo.com
Region: Russia
Topics: anthropology of morality, experience and life histories, everyday narratives and institutional

John Ziker

Assistant Professor
Boise State University
1910 University Drive
Boise, ID 83725-1950
Office +1(208)426-2121, Fax +1(208)426-4329
JZiker@boisestate.edu
http://anthro.boisestate.edu/ziker.shtml
Regions: Russia (Far North), Dolgan, Nganasan, Nenets
Topics: property, non-market economy, kinship, demographic health, nutrition, shamanism

Marko Zivkovic

Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Reed College
3203 SE Woodstock Blvd.
Portland, OR 97202-8199
tel. 503/771-1112/ ext. 7410
marko.zivkovic@reed.edu
Regions: Serbia, former Yugoslavia, Southeast Europe, East Central Europe, former USSR, China
Topics: tropes & narratives, film and mass media, urban spaces, urban/rural divide, local ethnological traditions, conspiracy theories, how socialism worked

Meglena Zlatkova

PhD Candidate
Department of Ethnology and Philosophy
University of Plovdiv, Bulgaria
24 Tzar Assen Str., Plodiv, Bulgaria
m_zlatkova@yahoo.com
Regions: South-Eastern Europe
Interests: socialist ans post-socialist city, ehtnosociology of the city, rban visual anthropology

Andrei A. Znamenskii

Asst Professsor of World History
Alabama State University
P. O. Box 101
Montgomery, AL 36101-0271
334-262-3625h 334-229-4750w
aznamenski@alasu.edu (?)
Regions: Siberia, Alaska
Topics: Russian Orthodox Church, indig. peoples, ethnicity, nationalism, Russian nationalism