Department of Anthropology

Associate Professor of History and Anthropology

EDUCATION:

• B.A. Franklin and Marshall College, 1982
• M.A. Columbia University, 1990
• Ph.D. Columbia University, 1996

STATEMENT OF RESEARCH INTERESTS:

My research interests to date have focused on such issues as nationalism, religion, and diaspora studies, specifically in Ukraine and more generally in the Soviet Union.  More broadly, I am interested in the role of ideology in shaping everyday life over time.  I am currently writing a book on secularization as it was experienced in a multi-confessional borderland region of the Soviet Union that was annexed during World War II.  Reflecting my training in cultural anthropology, I employ a variety of research methods beyond including semi-structured interviews, life history narratives, archival work and ethnographic methods of participant observation.

SELECTED RECENT PUBLICATIONS:

*  2008 Co-editor with Mark Steinberg, Reclaiming the Sacred:  Morality, Community, and Religion after Communism; Co-author of Introduction and Afterword Bloomington: Indiana University Press. Forthcoming 2008.

*  2007 Communities of the Converted: Ukrainians and Global Evangelism. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, October 2007.

* 2006  "Explaining the Appeal of Evangelicalism in Ukraine" in Dominique Arel and Blair Ruble, eds., Rebounding Identities in Russia and Ukraine. Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 243-272.

*  2005 "Money, Morality and New Forms of Exchange in Ukraine" Ethnos  71(4): 515-537 (December 2005).

* 2004  "Missionaries of Faith and Culture:  Evangelical Encounters in Ukraine" Slavic Review 63(4):  732-755 (Winter 2004).

* 2004  "Osobennosti Psikhologii  Evangel'skikh Khristian-Baptistov" [Psychological Aspects of Evangelical Christian-Baptists] with V. Pavlenko, Voprosy Psikhologii [Issues of Psychology] 5/2004:  72-86 (Fall 2004).

* 2003  "Advocating New Moralities:  Conversion to Evangelicalism in Ukraine" Religion, State and Society. 31(3): 273-87 (September 2003).

* 1998  Burden of Dreams:  History and Identity in Post-Soviet Ukraine.  Post-Communist Cultural Studies Series, Thomas Cushman, editor, University Park, PA:  Penn State Press.

* 1998  Co-editor with Nancy Ries, special issue, "Out of the Ruins:  Cultural Negotiations in the Soviet Aftermath," The Anthropology of East Europe Review 16(2) (Fall 1998).