Kristen Ghodsee
John S. Osterweis Associate Professor of Gender and Women's Studies; Director of Gender and Women's Studies Program
Spring 2013
- Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Eastern Europe (GLS 275)
- Intermediate Independent Study in Gender and Women's Studies (GWS 291)
- Doing Gender Studies: Ethnographies of Gender (GWS 301)
| Phone | 2077253427 |
| Title | John S. Osterweis Associate Professor |
| Department | Gender Womens Studies Program |
| 2nd Title | Program Director |
| 2nd Department | GENDER WOMENS STUDIES PROGRAM |
| Work Location | 201 Boody-Johnson House |
| kghodsee@bowdoin.edu |
Education
Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, 2002
M.A. University of California, Berkeley, 1997
B.A. University of California, Santa Cruz, 1993
Full curriculum vitae in PDF form
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Current Research Interests
Kristen Ghodsee's current research interests include the ethnographic study of post-communist nostalgia in Eastern Europe and the contributions of state socialist women's organizations to the international women's movement between 1968 and 1990. In particular, she is examining the activities and achievements of the Committee of the Movement of Bulgarian Women (CMBW), which worked both domestically and internationally throughout the communist period. Combining salvage ethnographic interviews with key women involved with the CMBW and archival research, Ghodsee hopes to write a book length study, tentatively titled The Second Wave in the Second World.
Links
2012 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship page
"Fall of Communism in Bulgaria" Kristen Ghodsee with Lisa Mullins on the BBC/PRI radio program, The World
"Nostalgia for Communism." Kristen Ghodsee on WAMC, Northeast Pubic Radio
"Kristen Ghodsee wins two book prizes for Muslim Lives in Eastern Europe"
NSF Cultural Anthropology Scholars Award - The Political Consequences of the Below Replacement Fertility Rate in Contemporary Bulgaria
“Who Made Bulgaria’s Mafia?” Letter to the Editor, International Herald Tribune, 10-29-2008
BBC: The World: October 6, 2006
Lisa Mullins speaks with Kristen Ghodsee about the tug-of-war going on between conservative and secular Muslims in Bulgaria. (audio)
Dialogue: Dialogue Television: #1105 The Red Riviera
With Kristen Ghodsee author of "The Red Riviera" and professor of Gender and Women's Studies at Bowdoin College. (video)
Selected Publications
Sole-Authored Books
Lost in Transition: Ethnographies of Everyday Life After Communism. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2011)
Winner of the 2011 Ethnographic Fiction Prize from the Society for Humanistic Anthropology of the American Anthropological Assocation for the short story "Tito Trivia"
Muslim Lives in Eastern Europe: Gender, Ethnicity and the Transformation of Islam in Postsocialist Bulgaria (Princeton University Press, 2009) See "Bowdoin Books" website for excerpts, reviews, photos and more.
1. Winner of the 2010 Barbara Heldt Prize for the Best Book in Slavic/Eurasian/East European Women's Studies from the Association of Women in Slavic Studies
2. Winner of the 2011 William A. Douglass Prize in Europeanist Anthropology from the Society for the Anthropology of Europe of the American Anthropological Association
3. Winner of the 2011 Harvard Davis Center Book Prize in Political and Social Studies from the Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies (formerly AAASS) for the best monograph published on Russia, Eurasia, or Eastern Europe in anthropology, political science, sociology, or geography
4. Winner of the 2011 John D. Bell Book Prize from the Bulgarian Studies Association for the best book in any area of Bulgarian Studies
The Red Riviera: Gender, Tourism and Postsocialism on the Black Sea, Durham: Duke University Press, 2005 (Second Printing in 2009).
The Second Wave in the Second World: Communist Mass Women’s Organizations and International Feminism during the Cold War (manuscript in progress)
Co-Edited Special Issues
“Gendering the History of Spiritualities and Secularisms in Southeastern Europe,” special section in Aspasia: International Yearbook of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern European Women's and Gender History, with Pamela Ballinger, Vol. 5, Spring 2011
Compliance Without Commitment? The EU's Gender Equality Agenda in the Central and East European States, with Elaine Weiner and Lavinia Stan, Women’s Studies International Forum, 33(1), 2010.
The Return of the State: Organizing Civil Society in Putin's Russia, with James Richter, Problems of Post-Communism, 56(6), November-December 2009
Peer Reviewed Journal Articles
“The Cold War Politicization of Literacy: UNESCO, Communism, and the World Bank,” with Charles Dorn, forthcoming in Diplomatic History
Socialist Secularism: Gender, Religion and Modernity in Bulgaria and Yugoslavia, 1946-1989” with Pam Ballinger, Aspasia: The International Yearbook of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern European Women's and Gender History, Vol. 5, 2011
“When Research becomes Intelligence: Feminist Anthropology, Ethnographic Fieldwork and the Human Terrain System,” Feminist Formations (formerly the National Women’s Studies Association Journal), 23(2), Summer 2011, pgs. 160-185
“Minarets after Marx: Islam, Communist Nostalgia and the Common Good in Post-socialist Bulgaria,” East European Politics and Societies, 24(4) 2010: 520-542.
“Revisiting the International Decade for Women: Brief Reflections on Competing Definitions of Feminism and Cold War Politics from the American Perspective,” Women’s Studies International Forum, (2010) 33: 3-12
“Left Wing, Right Wing, Everything: Xenophobia, Neo-totalitarianism and Populist Politics in Contemporary Bulgaria,” Problems of Post-Communism, (Vol. 55, No. 3 May-June 2008)
“Religious Freedoms versus Gender Equality: Faith-Based Organizations, Muslim Minorities and Islamic Headscarves in Modern Bulgaria,” Social Politics, (Vol. 14, No. 4, 2007)
"Red Nostalgia? Communism, Women's Emancipation, and Economic Transformation in Bulgaria," L'Homme: Zeitschrift für Feministische Geschichtswissenschaft (Journal for Feminist History), Spring 2004 (Vol. 15, No. 1/2004).
( full text PDF » ) ( abstract » )
( review (in german) » )
Reprinted in: Women's Movements: Networks and Debates in Post-communist Countries in the 19th and 20th Centuries, edited by Elisabeth Frysak, Margareth Lanzinger and Edith Saurer, (L'Homme Schriften, Vol. 12), Boehlau Verlag, 2006
"Feminism-by-Design: Emerging Capitalisms, Cultural Feminism and Women's Nongovernmental Organizations in Post-Socialist Eastern Europe," Signs:Journal of Women in Culture and Society, Spring 2004 (Vol. 29, No. 3).
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Modified and Reprinted as: “Civil Society-by-Design: Emerging Capitalisms, Western Feminism, and Women’s Nongovernmental Organizations in Postsocialist Eastern Europe” in Civil Society, Public Space and Gender Justice: Historical and Comparative Perspectives, eds. Gunilla Budde, Karen Hagemann, Sonya Michel in the series “European Civil Society” published by Berghan Publishers, Oxford and New York and edited by Dieter Gosewinkel and Jürgen Kocka, 2008.
Modified and Reprinted as: “Nongovernmental Ogres? How Feminist NGOs Undermine Women in Postsocialist Eastern Europe,” The International Journal of Not-for-Profit Law, (Vol. 8, No. 3), May 2006
"And if the Shoe Doesn't Fit? (Wear it Anyway?): Economic Transformation and Western Paradigm of 'Women in Development' in Post-Communist Central and Eastern Europe," Gender and Women's Studies Quarterly, Fall & Winter 2003 (Vol. 31, No. 3 & 4).
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"State Support in the Market: Women and Tourism Employment in Post-Socialist Bulgaria." International Journal of Politics, Cultural and Society, Spring 2003, (Vol. 16, No. 3).
Other Articles, Book Chapters, Book Reviews, Working Papers, etc.
2010
“Redefining the Common Good After Communism: Beyond Ideology” with Laura Henry, NewsNet: News of the Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies, 50(4), 1-7, August 2010
“Le débat sur le voile en Bulgarie: le statut légal des symboles religieux dans l’Ecole publique,” Revue: Regard sur l'Est, Dossier #53, 17/01/2010 (online at: http://www.regard-est.com/home/breve_contenu.php?id=1051)
“A Controversial View of Bulgarian Orthodoxy,” book review for H-Net Reviews in the Humanities and Social Sciences (January, 2010)
2009
“Symphonic Secularism: Caesaro-Papism, Religious Freedoms and American Foreign Policy in Southeastern Europe” Anthropology of East Europe Review, 27(2), Fall 2009: 227-252 (online at: http://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/aeer/article/view/178/271)
“The Body of War,” (book review) Canadian Slavonic Papers, 51 (2/3) June-September 2009: 383-384.
“Single Parenting in the Field,” Anthropology News, Vol. 50, No. 7, October 2009: 3-4
“Les femmes bulgares du bloc de l'Est à l'Union européenne,” Chronique Feministe, 102, January/June 2009: 62-65
“
Return of the King: Women in the Bulgarian Parliament,” in Women in Power in Postcommunist Parliaments, Sharon Wolchik and Marilyn Rueschemeyer (eds.), Woodrow Wilson Center Press/Indiana University Press, 2009
“Electioneering on the Rocks,” Transitions Online, 30 June 2009
“The Politics of the Veil,” (book review) Women’s Studies International Forum, Vol. 32, No. 2, March 2009: 165-165
“The Headscarf Debate Reaches Bulgaria,” Anthropology News, Vol. 50, No 3. May 2009: 31-32
“The Debated Lands,” (book review) American Ethnologist, Vol. 36, No. 2, May 2009: 438-439
“Chuzhdestranni Investitori Podkupvaha Bulgarski Polititsi,” Praven Svyat (Legal World) February 2008: 56-58
“Ethnic Politics: Identity Shift,” Transitions Online (tol.cz), 21 January 2009
2008
“The Miniskirt and the Veil: Religion and Women’s Dress in the New Europe,” Historical Reflections (Reflexions Historiques) Vol. 34, No. 3 (Winter 2008): 105-125.
“Living Gender After Communism,” (book review) Canadian Slavonic Papers, Vol. 50, No. 2-4 (September-December 2008): 534-535.
“You Can Take It with You: Cultural Capital, State Regulation and Tourism in Postsocialist Bulgaria,” in State and Society in Post-Socialist Economies, John Pickles (ed.), Palgrave MacMillan, 2008
“A Research Career at a Liberal-Arts College,” Chronicle of Higher Education, April 25, 2008.
"Minarets and Miniskirts: Debating Islamic Dress in Contemporary Bulgaria" National Council for Eurasian and East European Research Working Paper, March 5, 2008.
“Who is Taming Whom? On Foxes, Little Princes and Women’s Organizations” H-Net Reviews in the Humanities and Social Sciences (January, 2008).
2007
“Fashioning Socialism: Clothing, Politics, and Consumer Culture in East Germany,” book review in American Historical Review, Vol. 122, No. 2, April 2007
“Religious Freedoms and Islamic Revivalism: Some Contradictions of American Foreign Policy in Southeastern Europe,” East European Studies News, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, May-June 2007
“Men, Mines and Mosques: Gender and Islamic Revivalism on the Edge of Europe,” Occasional Paper 28, Occasional Papers from the School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study, January 2007
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“Headscarves in Homeroom: Women’s Islamic Dress in the ‘New’ Europe” Newsnet, Newsletter of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, vol. 47, no. 4, August 2007
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“Banning Headscarves in Bulgaria.” UC Berkeley Center for Slavic and Eastern European Studies Newsletter, Summer 2007
2006
“Shopaholic in Eastern Europe: A Guest Editor’s Forward,” Anthropology of East Europe Review, Fall 2006 (Vol. 24, No. 2)
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“Basset Hounds in the Balkans: On the Challenges of Dogs and Fieldwork’” Anthropology News, 47 (5), May 2006
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“Women’s Nongovernmental Organizations: Eastern Europe,” Encyclopedia of Women in Islamic Cultures, Volume 4, edited by Suad Joseph, Leiden; Boston: Brill Publishers, 2006
“Women and Sustainable Development: Eastern Europe,” Encyclopedia of Women in Islamic Cultures, Volume 4, edited by Suad Joseph, Leiden; Boston: Brill Publishers, 2006
2005
"Examining 'Eastern' Aid: Muslim Minorities and Islamic Nongovernmental Organization in Bulgaria," Anthropology of East Europe Review, Fall 2005 (Vol. 23, No. 2).
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Cultural Rights, the War on Terror, and Slavic Muslims in Bulgaria" with Christian Filipov, Human Rights Dialogue, Spring 2005, Series 2, Number 12.
2004
"Return of the King: Women in the Bulgarian Parliament," in Women in East European Parliaments: A Conference Organized by The Woodrow Wilson Center's East European Studies Program, (Co-sponsored by the Kennan Institute, the Watson Institute of Brown University and George Washington University), edited by Nida Gelazis, April 23, 2004.
2003
"The Role of International Organizations on Women's Civil Organization in Post-Communist Bulgaria" in Keridis, Dimitris, ed., New Approaches to Balkan Studies, NY: Brasseys, 2003.
"Bulgaria" The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Women's Issues Worldwide: Europe. Edited by Lynn Walter. Greenwood Publishing Group, 2003
"Rethinking Development Templates: Women and Microcredit in Post-Socialist Southeastern Europe." The Anthropology of East Europe Review, Special Issue: Ethnographies of Postsocialism, Volume 21, Number 2, Autumn 2003
2002
"Mobility in Bulgaria and the European Union: Brain Drain, Bogus Asylum Seekers, Replacement Migration, and Fertility." East European Studies Occasional Paper, No. 70, (November 2002) Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
"Brain Drain, Bogus Asylum Seekers, and Babies: Conflicting Discourses of Mobility and Fertility in Bulgaria and the European Union." Anthropology of East Europe Review, Vol. 20, No. 2, 2002
"Many Shades of Red: State Policy and Collective Agriculture." Eastern Economic Journal, Bloomsburg, Vol. 28, No. 1 (Winter 2002)
"A Monarch and Prime Minister: Electing the Former King in Bulgaria," Newsnet, Newsletter of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, v.42, no. 3 (May 2002).
2001
"Report from Bulgaria: Introducing His Majesty and His Excellency, Mr. Saxecoburgotski" UCBerkeley Center for Slavic and Eastern European Studies Newsletter, Fall 2001 (Also as PDF 32 pages, 1,233 KB
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2000
"Mobsters and Mail-Order Brides: Women and Economic Transition in Post-Socialist Bulgaria." UC Berkeley Center for Slavic and Eastern European Studies Newsletter, Fall 2000
"Globalization and Tourism in Bulgaria" Globalization and Cultural Differences: Proceedings of the Fourth Fulbright Conference, Sofia, Bulgaria, May 2000, Sofia: Bulgarian-American Commission for Educational Exchange.
"Amerikanskite Turisti: "De e Bulgaria?" in Turistechicki Pazar (Tourism Market) Sofia: Bulgarian Ministry of Economy. No. 9 September 2000 (Available online at www.bulgariatravel.org under "TM" newspaper)
"Tri Prikaski za Albena" in Turistechicki Pazar (Tourism Market) Sofia: Bulgarian Ministry of Economy. No. 7 July 2000
"Vuzrazhdaneto na Kubinskiya Turisum" in Turistechicki Pazar (Tourism Market) Sofia: Bulgarian Ministry of Economy. No. 6 June 2000
"V Turisma ne Tzenyat Obrazovabite Kadri?" in Turistechicki Pazar (Tourism Market) Sofia: Bulgarian Ministry of Economy. No. 5 May 2000
Grants Awards and Fellowships
2010-2011 Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Residential Fellowship
2010- 2011 Stanford Humanities Center Residential Fellowship (declined)
2010- 2011 National Humanities Center Residential Fellowship (declined)
2010-2012 NCEEER National Research Competition Fellowship
2008 Visitor, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany
2008-2009 National Science Foundation, Cultural Anthropology Scholars Award
2007-2008 Andrew Mellon CBB Collaborative Faculty Research Grant
2007-2008 Bowdoin College Faculty Research Award
2007-2008 Andrew Mellon CBB Collaborative Faculty Development Grant
2006-2007 Institute for Advanced Study, Residential Fellowship
2005-2006 Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Residential Fellowship
2005-2006 National Council for Eurasian and East European Research (NCEEER) Ed Hewett Fellowship
2005-2006 National Council for Eurasian and East European Research (NCEEER) Policy Research Fellowship (Declined)
2005 International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX) Individual Advanced Opportunity Fellowship
2005 American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) East European Studies Postdoctoral Fellowship
2005-2006 American Association of University Women American Fellowship, (Alternate)
2005-2006 Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Research Scholar Fellowship, Institute for East European Studies, (Declined)
2005-2006 Bowdoin College Faculty Leave Supplement Fellowship (Declined)
2005 Bowdoin College Fletcher Award for Faculty Research
2004 Bowdoin College Freeman Award for Faculty Research in Asia
2004 NCEEER Short Term Travel Grant
2004 Bowdoin College Faculty Course Enrichment Fund
2004 Bowdoin College Fletcher Award for Faculty Research
2003 IREX Short Term Travel Grant
2003 Bowdoin College Fletcher Award for Faculty Research
1999-2000 Fulbright Fellowship to Bulgaria
2001 American Council of Learned Societies and Woodrow Wilson Center Junior Scholars Training Seminar
2001 IREX Black Sea Regional Policy Symposium
2001 Harvard-Kokkalis Program on Southeastern and East-Central Europe Graduate Student Workshop
2001 UC Berkeley, Institute for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies Travel Grant
1999 IREX Southeastern Europe Area Studies Development Program
1996-2001 UC Berkeley Chancellor’s Pre-doctoral Opportunity Fellowship
1998-1999 UC Berkeley Ned Flanders Fellowship
1998 UC Berkeley Latin American Studies Summer Research Grant
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