TEACHING
Courses taught:

• Anthropology of Political Systems (ANTH 2530)
• Ethnography of Power Systems (ANTH 7040)
  
• Anthropology of Violence (ANTH 7900/4870), special topics winter 2010
• Women in Cross-Cultural Perspective (ANTH 3320)
• Anthropology of Childhood (ANTH 2300)
• Cultural Anthropology (ANTH 1220)
  

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RESEARCH
My research in political anthropology focuses on citizenship, political mobilization, and the quest for rights in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. I am particularly interested in examining how young people’s exposure to the ideals of democratization and the realities of increasing social inequality shapes their relation to the law and rights. I conducted extensive fieldwork in Ukraine, and am currently completing a book that explores youth struggles for civic and human rights in the post-Soviet context. My recent publications have dealt with civic education, language and identity politics, and European Union integration.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

• ARTICLES
  2007 "Patriotism, Order, and Articulations of the Nation in Kyiv High Schools Before and After the Orange Revolution." Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics 23 (1), 101-117.
  http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~db=all~content=a773355505
  
  2002 "Mapping Identities: Russian Resistance to Linguistic Ukrainization in Central and Eastern Ukraine." Europe-Asia Studies 54 (3), 415-433. http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~db=all~content=a713663338
  
  
• BOOK CHAPTER
  2010 "Ukraine's Orange Revolution: Beyond Soviet Political Culture?" In Orange Revolution and Aftermath: Mobilization, Apathy, and the State in Ukraine. Paul J. D'Anieri, ed. Washington, D.C. and Baltimore: Woodrow Wilson Center Press and Johns Hopkins University Press.
  
  
• BOOK REVIEWS
  2009 Review of Peter W. Rodgers. Nation, Region and History in Post-Communist Transitions. Identity Politics in Ukraine, 1991-2006. Stuttgart: Ibidem-Verlag. In Canadian Slavonic Papers 51 (4) December 2009.
  
  2007 Review of Bilaniuk, Laada. Contested Tongues: Language Politics and Cultural Correction in Ukraine. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2005. Russian Review 66 (1), 175-176.

GRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES
MA and PhD students with research interests in the following topical areas are welcome to apply for degree work under my supervision:

• citizenship and the state
• law and human rights
• privatization and distribution of natural resources
• collective violence and conflict
• children and youth as agents of social transformation
• educational practice and schooling

Geographical area open

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A number of fellowships and grants are available to graduate students in the Department of Anthropology.