Notes on the Contributors
- Notes on the Contributors
Zhanna Chernova is a Candidate of Science (Sociology), serving as Docent in the Sociology Department at Higher School of Economics, National Research University, St. Petersburg, Russia. Her research interests are centered in social and family policy in Russia and Europe, gender studies, cultural studies, history of everyday life in URSS, Soviet culture, cultural and gender representation. Major publications include: Family Policy in Europe and Russia: Gender Aspects (in Russian) (St Petersburg: Norma, 2008); "'Demographic Reserve': Young Family as Object of State Policy" (in Russian), Woman in Russian Society 1 (2010): 23-42 and 2 (2010): 26-38; "Political Economy of Contemporary Parenthood: Online Community and Social Network" (in Russian), Ekonomicheskaia sotsiologiia 12, no. 3 (2011): 85-105, coauthored with L. Shpakovskaia; "Young Adults: Spousal, Partnership, and Parenthood. Discursive Prescriptions and Practices in Modern Russia" (in Russian), Laboratorium 4 (2011), co-authored with L. Shpakovskaia.
Reuel Hanks is Professor of Geography at Oklahoma State University, and serves as the editor of the Journal of Central Asian Studies. Dr. Hanks was a Fulbright Scholar in Tashkent, Uzbekistan and has published more than 20 articles and book chapters on national identity, security, and political geography in Central Asia. He is the author of four books: Uzbekistan, an annotated bibliography in the World Bibliographical Series (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO Ltd., 1999), Central Asia: A Global Studies Handbook (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO Ltd., 2005), Global Security Watch: Central Asia (Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger, 2010), and the Encyclopedia of Geography Terms, Themes, and Concepts (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO Ltd., 2011, forthcoming). He has given numerous scholarly presentations and public lectures in Central Asia, and has been a Visiting Professor at Tashkent State Economics University, Samarkand State Institute for Foreign Languages, KIMEP (Almaty, Kazakhstan), and Eurasian National University (Astana, Kazakhstan). He has served as a consultant for the U.S. Dept. of State, U.S. Dept. of Education, IREX, the Fulbright Program, and several private agencies.
Vladimir Kozlovskiy is Chair of the Department of Sociology of Culture and Communication, Faculty of Sociology, St. Petersburg State University as well as Chair of the Department of Russian Sociology, So.iological Institute (Russian Academy of Sciences). He also serves as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Sociology and Social Anthropology. His research interests include: [End Page 165] modernization and transformation of Russian society, history of Russian sociology, social communications, the sociology of culture, the sociology of conflict, and the sociology of education. He has authored more than 140 publications, among them: History of Russian Sociology (Moscow: Onega, 1995); and "Losses and Findings in Sociology," special issue of Journal of Sociology and Social Anthropology 1, no. 1 (1998).
László Kürti received his PhD in cultural anthropology from the University of Massachusetts in 1989. He taught anthropology at the American University in Washington DC and the Eötvös University in Budapest, and presently teaches at the University of Miskolc, Hungary. He has conducted fieldwork in North America, Romania, and Hungary. His publications in English include: The Remote Borderland (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2001), Youth and the State in Hungary (London: Pluto Press, 2002). He served as Co-Editor for Beyond Borders (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1996), Working Images (London: Routledge, 2004), and Post-Socialist Europe: Anthropological Perspectives from Home (Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2009). From 2001 to 2006 he served as Secretary of the European Association of Social Anthropologists.
Marie-alice L"Heureux received a doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley in 2002 and teaches architectural design and courses on the city in the School of Architecture, Design, and Planning at the University of Kansas. Her research focuses on politics and the built environment. She has published numerous articles and book chapters including "Representing Ideology, Designing Memory," in The Sovietization of the Baltic States 1940-56, ed. Olaf Mertelsmann (Tartu: Kleio, 2003), 207-26, and "Modernizing the Estonian Farmhouse, Redefining the Family 1860-1920" in the Journal of Baltic Studies 41, no. 4 (2010): 472-506. She recently completed "Infrastructure, Social Injustice, and the City: Parsing the Wisdom of Jane Jacob," for Routledge's Series in Planning, History, and the Environment. She is working on a book manuscript...
