Kristen Ghodsee. United States, 1970. Professor of Russian and Eastern European Studies and member of the Graduate Group in Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania. Seven of his nine books focus on everyday life and the social, political and economic upheavals after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Over the past two decades, he has specialized in the study of everyday life under socialism and post-socialism, the gender effects of post-Cold War transformations, and the ethnographic examination of memory and nostalgia in Eastern Europe. His articles and essays have been translated into more than a dozen languages and have appeared in prominent publications such as Foreign Affairs, Dissent, Jacobin Magazine, The Lancet, The New Republic, Aeon, The World Policy Journal, The Baffler, The Washington Post and The New York Times. She has received numerous residential research grants at Princeton, Harvard, the Woodrow Wilson International Center, the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Study, the Friedrich-Schiller Universität, the Max Planck Institute, and the University of Helsinki. In 2012 she received a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship for her work in anthropology and cultural studies. Ghodsee also regularly writes on gender issues for the Chronicle of Higher Education and she is the co-author of the book Professor Mommy: Finding Work-Family Balance in Academia.
