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Curriculum Vitae

Bruce Grant

Professor of Anthropology

New York University

Department of Anthropology

25 Waverly Place

New York, NY 10003

Telephone: (212) 998-3810 | Fax: (212) 995-4014

Updated December 2019

Research and Teaching Interests

Former Soviet Union, Siberia, Caucasus; cultural history and politics, religion

Education

1993. M.A., Ph.D., Department of Anthropology, Rice University

1982-1985 B. A., Department of Anthropology, McGill University

Awards and Honors

2019 Hallsworth Visiting Professorship, University of Manchester, UK

2017 Foreign Visitor Fellowship, Slavic Research Center, University of Hokkaido, Japan

2016-2017 American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Fellowship

2016 NYU Distinguished Teaching Award

2012-2013 John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship

2012-2013 Stanford Humanities Center Sabbatical Fellowship (declined)

2010 NYU Teaching Award

2010 Honorable Mention for Harvard Davis Center Book Prize in Political and Social Studies

2008-2009 American Philosophical Society (APS) Sabbatical Fellowship

2008-2009 Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, Research Grant

2004-2006 National Council of Eurasian and East European Research (NCEEER), Research Grant

2004-2005 Membership, School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton

2004 Getty Museum Fellowship, “Monuments of the Middle East,” Istanbul

2002 American Councils (ACTR/ACCELS) Advanced Research Fellowship

2000-2001 ACLS Burkhardt Fellowship, held at the National Humanities Center

1996 American Ethnological Society Prize for Best Book in Anthropology by a First Author

1995 IREX grant to support Soyuz, a postsocialist cultural studies research network

1995 NEH Summer Stipend for College Teachers

1994 Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies Short-Term Grant, Washington, DC

1994 SSRC Seed Grant to organize Soyuz

1993 Postdoctoral Fellow, Harriman Institute, Columbia University, funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRCC)

1992 NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Award

1989-1990 Association of Colleges and Universities of Canada Soviet Academic Fellowship

Appointments

2018-2021 Chair, Department of Anthropology, New York University

2014-2015 Vice-Dean of the NYU Graduate School of Arts and Science

2013-2021 Advisory Board, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Germany

2012-2017 Board of Trustees, AMIAS, Association of Members of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton

2011- Professor of Anthropology, New York University

Associated Faculty: Center for Near Eastern Studies; Affiliated Faculty: Department of Russian and Slavic Studies; Advisory Board: Program in Experimental Humanities and Social Thought

2011 President, ASEEES, the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (formerly the AAASS) [2010, President-Elect; 2012, Past-President]

2007-2009 President, Society for Cultural Anthropology (interdisciplinary wing of the American Anthropological Association)

2006- Board of Directors, National Council for Eurasian and East European Research (Vice-Chair, 2011-13; Chair 2013-)

2005-2011 Associate Professor of Anthropology, New York University

2004-2005 Member, School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton

2001-2004 Chair, SSRC Eurasia Committee

2000-2010 Co-Editor, “Culture and Society after Socialism” Book Series. Cornell University Press.

2000-2001 ACLS Burkhardt Fellow, National Humanities Center, North Carolina

1999-2005 Associate Professor of Anthropology, Swarthmore College

1997-2009 Research Associate, American Museum of Natural History, New York

1997 Visiting Scholar, Institute for Advanced Research in the Humanities, Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow

1994 Visiting Scholar, Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies, Washington, DC

1993-1999 Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Swarthmore College

1993 Postdoctoral Fellow, Harriman Institute, Columbia University

Books

2009 The Captive and the Gift: Cultural Histories of Sovereignty in Russia and the Caucasus. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.

*Honorable Mention for the Harvard Davis Center Book Prize for Political and Social Studies

1995 In the Soviet House of Culture: A Century of Perestroikas. Princeton: Princeton University Press

*Winner of the American Ethnological Society Prize for Best First Book

Edited Monographs

1999a Editor, Author of Foreword and Afterword, The Social Organization of the Gilyak, by Lev Shternberg. New York and Seattle: American Museum of Natural History and the University of Washington Press.

1999b Editor, Author of Introduction, and Team Translator for Neotraditionalism in the Russian North: Indigenous Peoples and the Legacy of Perestroika, by Aleksandr Pika. Seattle and Edmonton: University of Washington Press and the Canadian Circumpolar Institute.

Edited Volumes

2010 [with Adele Barker] The Russia Reader: History, Culture, Politics (Durham: Duke University Press).

2007 [with Lale Yalçın-Heckmann] Caucasus Paradigms: Anthropologies, Histories, and the Making of a World Area (Berlin: LIT).

Articles and Chapters

2020a Satire and Political Imagination in the Caucasus: The Sense and Sensibilities of Molla Nasreddin. Acta Slavica Iaponica. Forthcoming.

2020b Missing Links: Indigenous Life and Evolutionary Thought in the History of Russian Ethnography. Berichte zu Wissenschaftsgeschicte. Forthcoming.

2014 The Edifice Complex: Architecture and the Political Life of Surplus in the New Baku. Public Culture 26 (3): 501-528.

2011a Recognising Soviet Culture. In Reconstructing the House of Culture, Joachim Otto Habeck and Brian Donahoe, eds. New York: Berghahn Press, pp. 263-276.

2011b Shrines and Sovereigns: Life, Death, and Religion in Azerbaijan. Comparative Studies in Society and History 53 (3): 654-681.

Reprinted in Wanner and Byiskikh, eds. Antropologiia religii, 111-154 (Kyiv: Dukh i litera, 2019)

2010 Cosmopolitan Baku. Ethnos 75 (2): 123-147.

2007a [with Lale Yalcin-Heckmann] Introduction. In Grant and Yalçın-Heckmann, eds., Caucasus Paradigms, 1-19.

2007b Brides, Brigands, and Fire-Bringers: Notes Toward a Historical Ethnography of Pluralism. In Grant and Yalçın-Heckmann, eds., Caucasus Paradigms, 47-74.

2005 The Good Russian Prisoner: Naturalizing Violence in the Caucasus Mountains. Cultural Anthropology 20 (1): 39-67.

2004 An Average Azeri Village (1930). Slavic Review 63 (4): 705-731.

2001 New Moscow Monuments, or, States of Innocence. American Ethnologist 28 (2): 332-362.

Reprinted in Fortun and Fortun, Cultural Anthropology, Vol. 4 (Sage, 2010).

1999 The Return of the Repressed: Conversations with Three Russian Entrepreneurs. In Paranoia within Reason: A Casebook on Conspiracy as Explanation. George Marcus, ed., 241-267. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

1997 Empire and Savagery: The Politics of Primitivism in Late Imperial Russia. In Russia's Orient: Imperial Borderlands and Peoples, 1700-1917. Daniel R. Brower and Edward J. Lazzerini, eds., 292-310. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

1995 Nivkhi, Russians and Others: The Politics of Indigenism on Sakhalin Island. In Rediscovering Russia in Asia: Boundaries in a Transnational Region. Stephen Kotkin and David Wolff, eds., 160-171. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe.

1993a Dirges for Soviets Passed: Conversations with Six Russian Writers. In Perilous States: Conversations on Culture, Politics, and Nation. George Marcus, ed., 17-51. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

1993b Siberia Hot and Cold: Reconstructing the Image of Siberian Indigenous Peoples. In Between Heaven and Hell: The Myth of Siberia in Russian Culture. Galya Diment and Yuri Slezkine, eds., 227-253. New York: St. Martin's Press. Reprinted as Siberia Quente e Fria. Anuario Antropologico. Translated to the Portuguese by Alcida Ramos, 95-125. Rio de Janeiro: Tempo Brasileiro.

1992 History, Ecology and the Savage: The Nivkhi of Sakhalin Island. Questions Sibériennes:

Écologie et Culture 2: 72-77.

Short Essays and Commentaries

2020 Interview with Leah Feldman, “On the Threshold of Eurasia,” The CESS Blog Online.

2019 “What I Know about Globalization” (Reply to Chatterjee). Ab Imperio 4: 89-93.

2018 “The 2010s” (A Retrospective). NewsNet: News of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies. October: 10-11.

2017 “Communist Internationals” (Response to an article cluster). Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History 18 (1): 89-93.

2016 “Technologies of Hierarchy” (Roundtable on Russian modernity). Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie 140: 75-76 [in Russian].

2012a We Are All Eurasian. NewsNet: Bulletin of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies 52 (1): 1-6. Reprinted in Russian as My vse evraziiskie. Ab Imperio: Studies of New Imperial History and Nationalism in Post-Soviet Space 4 (2011): 21-34.

2012b Plen. In Kavkazskii slovar’: liudi i zemlia, edited by Ol’ga Sosnina, 212-213. Moscow: Muzei-zapovednik Tsaritsyno [in Russian].

2012c [with Lale Yalçın-Heckmann] Kavkaz: Znanie i sila. In Kavkazskii slovar’, 268-271 [in Russian].

2004a New Directions in Caucasus and Central Asian Studies. Items of the Social Science Research Council 5 (1-2): 22-23.

2004b Cultural Anthropology: The State of the Field. Antropologicheskii Forum 1: 37-42.

2003 The Postcolonial in the Postsocialist. [Special Issue: Empire, Union, Center, Satellite: The Place of Postcolonial Theory in Slavic/Central and Eastern European/(Post-)Soviet Studies.] Ulbandus 7: 9-11.

2002 [with Nancy Ries] The Shifting Fields of Culture and Society after Socialism. In Caroline Humphrey, The Unmaking of Soviet Life, ix-xii. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.

2001 Avant-propos. In Frederic Bertrand, L’Anthropologie soviétique des années 20-30: Configuration d’une rupture, 11-13. Bordeaux: Presses Universitaires de Bordeaux. [in French].

2000 Discussion of ‘Why Postsocialism is Good to Think.’ Anthropology of East Europe Review 18 (1): 63-66.

1999 Nivkhi of Sakhalin Island, and, Siberian Ethnography in the West since 1980. In The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Hunter-Gatherers. Richard Lee and Richard Daly, eds., 125-126, 170-173. New York: Cambridge University Press.

1994 Northern Peoples: Changing Times, Enduring Cultures. In Traditional Peoples Today. Goran Burenhult, ed., 147-155. San Francisco: Harper Collins.

1993 Nivkhi and Oroki. In State of the Peoples: A Global Human Rights Report on Societies in

Danger, 122-124. Boston: Beacon Press.

1992a The Kurils: The $100 Billion Question. Eastern Europe Newsletter 6 (21): 5-8.

1992b Nivkhi: Conscience of Sakhalin. Geographical Magazine. LXIV (2): 32-33.

1990a Should we look to Greenland? Sibirskaia Gazeta. 29 July 1990: 11 [in Russian].

1990b Reply to Christine Gailey on “Dialectics of Gender in State Formation.” Sovetskaia Etnografiia 6: 77-78 [in Russian].

Book and Film Reviews

2017 Review of Familiar Strangers: The Georgian Diaspora and the Evolution of the Soviet Empire (New York: Oxford University Press, 2015). Slavic Review 76 (2): 555-556.

2012 Review of Empire Speaks Out: Languages of Rationalization and Self-Description in the Russian Empire (Leiden: Brill, 2009). Central Asian Survey 31 (1): 112-113.

2011 Review of David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye, Russian Orientalism: Asia in the Russian Mind from Peter the Great to the Emigration. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010. Russian Review 70 (1): 153.

2009 Review of Katya Hokanson, Writing at Russia’s Border. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008. Russian Review 68 (3): 515-516.

2008 Review of Rane Willerslev, Soul Hunters: Hunting, Animism, and Personhood among the Siberian Yukaghirs. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007. Journal of the American Academy of Religion 76 (4): 1004-1007.

2006a Review of Alexei Yurchak, Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More: The Last Soviet Generation. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006. Slavic Review 65 (4): 846-847.

2006b “Sense and Sense-Making in the Caucasus.” Joint review of Anna Politkovskaya, A Small Corner of Hell: Dispatches from Chechnya. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003; Georgi M. Derluguian, Bourdieu’s Secret Admirer in the Caucasus: A World-System Biography. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005; and Valery Tishkov, Chechnya: Life in a War-Torn Society. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004. American Anthropologist 108 (2): 385-388.

2006c Review of Adrienne Lynn Edgar, Tribal Nation: The Making of Soviet Turkmenistan. Princeton: Princeton University Press. Journal of Modern History 78 (3): 783-785.

2005 “The Traffic in Brides.” Review essay on Bride Kidnapping in Kyrgyzstan (d. Petr Lom, 2004, 51 minutes). Distributed by First Run/Icarus Films. American Anthropologist 107 (4): 687-689.

2004 Review of Harry G. West and Todd Sanders, eds. Transparency and Conspiracy: Ethnographies of Suspicion in the New World Order. Durham: Duke University Press. American Anthropologist 106 (4): 782-783.

2003a Review of Farideh Heyat, Azeri Women in Transition. Oxford: Berg. H-Gender-Mideast [Archived at: ].

2003b Review of Dale Pesmen, Russia and Soul. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. American Anthropologist 105 (1): 207-208.

2001a Review of Daniel Peris, Storming the Heavens: The Soviet League of the Militant Godless. Ithaca: Cornell University Press; and William Husband, Godless Communists: Atheism and Society in Soviet Russia, 1917-1932. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press. Slavic and East European Journal 45 (3): 581-583.

2001b Review of Susan Buck-Morss, Dreamworld and Catastrophe. Cambridge: MIT Press. Russian Review 60 (3): 631-634.

2000a Review of Katherine Verdery, The Political Lives of Dead Bodies: Reburial and

Postsocialist Change. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 6 (3):562-563

2000b Review of Golovnev and Osherenko, Siberian Survival: The Nenets and their Story. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1999. Slavic Review 59 (4): 922-923.

2000c Review of Robert Chenciner, Daghestan: Tradition and Survival. New York: St. Martins, 1997. Journal of Central Asian Studies 2 (2): 50.

1998a Review of Victor Shnirelman, Who Gets the Past? Competition for Ancestors among Non-Russian Intellectuals in Russia. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. Canadian American Slavic Studies 32 (1-4): 467-468.

1998b Review of Katerina Clark, Petersburg: Crucible of Cultural Revolution. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. Common Knowledge 7 (3): 174-175.

1998c Review of David Tuller, Cracks in the Iron Closet: Travels in Gay and Lesbian Russia. New York: Faber and Faber. American Anthropologist. 100 (1): 216.

1997 Review of Anatoly Khazanov, After the USSR: Ethnicity, Nationalism and Politics in the Commonwealth of Independent States. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 3, no. 3 (September): 605-606.

1995a Review of James Forsyth, A History of the Peoples of Siberia: Russia's North Asian Colony, 1581-1990. New York: Cambridge University Press. Slavic Review. 53 (3): 905-906.

1995b Review of Stephen Schecter, My Russian Friends [video documentary]. Soviet and Post-Soviet Review. 22 (3): 373-375.

1991 Review of Marjorie Balzer, ed., Shamanism: Soviet Studies of Traditional Religion in Siberia and Central Asia. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe. Canadian Slavonic Papers. 23 (1): 89-90.

1988 Review of Viktor I. Kozlov, The Peoples of the Soviet Union. London and Bloomington: Hutchison and Indiana University Press. Canadian Slavonic Papers. December: 520-521.

Working Groups

2014-17 External Council Member, “CASCADE: Exploring the Security-Democracy Nexus in the Caucasus,” funded by the European Commission, and coordinated by a French-Russian international team through the Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, Paris.

2012-15 Consultant, “Shrines in the Caucasus,” funded by the Volkswagen Foundation. Organized by Florian Mühlfried (U Jena) and Kevin Tuite (U Montreal).

2012-14 External Consultant, “Borders in Eurasia,” funded by the Norwegian Research Council. Organized by Tone Bringa (U Bergen) and John Schoeberlein (Nazarbayev U).

Recent Invited Lectures

May 19 Hallsworth Professor Keynote Lecture, University of Manchester

Mar 19 Department of History, University of Michigan

Apr 18 Sinor Institute for Inner Asian Studies, Indiana U

Mar 17 Slavic Research Center, Hokkaido University

Feb 17 The Oriental Library, University of Tokyo

Feb 17 Center for Ainu and Indigenous Studies, Hokkaido University

Feb 16 Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies, NYU

Oct 15 Havighurst Center for Eurasian Studies, Miami U

Oct 15 Duke University, Department of Cultural Anthropology

Aug 15 University of Bergen, Department of Social Anthropology

Jun 15 Moscow State University, Department of Anthropology

Jun 15 Ilia State University, Tbilisi, Department of Cultural Studies

Feb 15 University of Pennsylvania, Russian History Workshop

Feb 15 Rice University, Department of Anthropology Colloquium

Feb 15 University of Washington, Department of History Donald Treadgold Memorial Lecture

Oct 14 University of Toronto, Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies

Nov 13 Havighurst Center for Eurasian Studies, Miami U

July 13 Max Planck Institute ANARCHIE Summer School, Halle, Germany

May 13 Department of Social Anthropology, Pardubice, Czech Republic

Mar 13 Center for Baltic and East European Studies, Södertörns Högskola, Stockholm

Mar 13 Department of Social Anthropology, Digital and Material Culture Series, UC London

Feb 13 University of Vermont Burack Distinguished Lecture, University of Vermont

Feb 13 Cornell University Center for European Studies

Mar 12 Circassian Cultural Institute, New Jersey

Jan 12 Keynote Address to Eurasia wing, American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting

Feb 11 Department of Anthropology, UC Santa Cruz.

Dec 10 Department of Anthropology, MIT.

Nov 10 Mellon Working Group on Eurasia, Brown University.

Apr 10 Keynote Address to Anthropologies of the Caucasus, Columbia University.

Feb 10 Program in Russian and Eurasian Studies, Princeton University.

Feb 10 Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago

Jan 10 CREEES, University of Michigan

Oct 09 Department of Anthropology, University of British Columbia.

Nov 08 Institute for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, UC Berkeley.

Oct 08 French-Anatolian Research Center, Baku.

Mar 08 Program in Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Pennsylvania.

Mar 08 Department of Anthropology, UC Berkeley.

Oct 07 Boas Seminar, Department of Anthropology, Columbia University.

Sep 07 Keynote Speaker, “In the Siberian House of Culture,” Max Planck Institute, Halle, Germany.

Recent Conference Presentations

2019 Discussant, “Russian Law,” NYU

2018 Discussant, “Soviet Economic History,” NYU and CNRS

2018 Discussant, “The Year that Shook the World,” Princeton University

2018 Roundtable, ACLS Ryskamp Symposium on the Humanites, New York

2018 Chair, “The Use, Misuse, and Disuse of Turkic Sources” ASEEES Boston

2018 Discussant, “Imagining the Dead in the Soviet and Post-Soviet Periods,” ASEEES Boston

2017 Discussant, “Borders, Barriers and the Production of Bounded Space,” AAA Washington

2017 Discussant, “Soviet Internal Politics of the 1960s and 1970s,” SRC Sapporo

2016 Discussant, “History in the Caucasus,” ASN New York

2016 Discussant, “Signs of Life: Revive, Resurrect, Research,” AAA Minneapolis

2015 Discussant, “Civility, Trust, Recognition,” Stanford University

2015 Presidential Roundtable, “The Fact,” ASEEES Philadelphia

2015 Roundtable, “Publishing in Journals,” ASEEES Philadelphia

2015 Discussant, “Shrines in the Caucasus,” University of Jena Workshop, Germany

2014 Roundtable, “Soyuz 20 Years Later,” ASEEES San Antonio

2014 Discussant, “Finance, Culture, and Politics in Post-Soviet Eurasia,” ASEEES San Antonio

2014 Discussant, “Incongruous Borderlands,” Association for the Study of Nationalities, New York

2014 Roundtable, “Sexuality, Minority Rights, and the Law in Russia,” Yale University

2013 Discussant, “Borders in Eurasia,” Workshop, Bergen, Norway.

2012 Chair, “Cultures of Empire: Challenges and New Directions,” ASEEES, New Orleans.

2012 Discussant, “Rediscovering Siberia.” ASEEES, New Orleans

2012 Discussant, Wenner-Gren Seminar on History of Russian Anthropology, St. Petersburg

2011 Discussant, Soyuz Symposium, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

2011 Discussant, NYU Ottoman Studies Workshop, Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies

2011 Presidential Address, “We Are All Eurasian,” ASEEES, Washington

2011 Chair, Presidential Plenary, “Authoritarian Turns,” ASEEES, Washington

2010 Discussant, “Carving out Mental and Physical Spaces in the Former Soviet Union,” ASEEES, Los Angeles.

2010 Panelist, “Copyright Wars,” ASEEES, Los Angeles.

2009 Presenter, “Russian National Identity Since 1961,” New College, Oxford.

2009 Discussant, “Modes of Living: Crafting Secular and Sacred Sensibilities after Socialism,” AAASS Boston.

2009 Chair, “The Biography of Diversity in Late Imperial and Early Soviet Russia,” AAASS Boston.

2008 Presenter, Roundtable on Eurasian Futures, and Discussant, “Epistemologies of Postsocialisms,” Soyuz Meeting, Berkeley.

2008 Discussant, SSRC Dissertation Development Workshop: Violence in Eurasia. New York.

2008 Presenter, “Between Atheism and State Religions in the Soviet 1970s,” University of Bordeaux Summer Session in the Anthropology of Religion, Biarritz, France

2008 Discussant, “The Politics of Difference in the Postsocialist Present.” AAA San Francisco.

2007 Discussant, “The Curious Lives of Documents,” UC Davis, Dept of Anthropology.

2007 Discussant, Annual Meeting of Soyuz, the Research Network for Postcommunist Cultural Studies, Princeton.

2007 Presenter, "The Caucasus: New Agendas in Scholarship." Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington.

2007 Discussant, “Conjuring Voices, Crafting Selves: Difference, Inequality, Ethnography and Storytelling,” AAA Meetings, Washington.

Fieldwork

June 2019 Baku and Moscow

Fall 2016 Baku and Moscow

June 2015 Tbilisi and Moscow

Summer 2014 Baku, Azerbaijan

Fall 2012 Baku, Azerbaijan

Summer 2011 Baku and Sheki, Azerbaijan, Sakhalin Island, Russia.

Summer 2009 Baku and Sheki, Azerbaijan

Fall 2008 Baku and Sheki, Azerbaijan

Summer 2007 Baku, Azerbaijan.

October 2006 Moscow.

Mar-Apr 2005 Moscow, Baku.

Summer 2004 Baku, Azerbaijan.

Jun-Nov 2002 Baku and Sheki, Azerbaijan

Summer 2001 Baku and Sheki, Azerbaijan

Summer 1999 Preliminary field-site investigation and language study in Baku and Sheki, Azerbaijan

Summer 1998 Field interviews and research on post-Soviet language policies, Sakhalin Island.

Winter 1997 Field interviews and archival research for "New Moscow Monuments" (Grant 2001b)

Jun-Jul 1996 Field research for article on Russian business culture, Moscow (Grant 1999b)

Summer 1995 Field research, St. Petersburg, Sakhalin Island for Shternberg project (Grant, ed., 1999a)

March 1994 Archival research, St. Petersburg for first book (Grant 1995).

Jun-Aug 1992 Field and archival research, Sakhalin Island, Kuril Islands, Tomsk, Moscow

Nov 1991 Field interviews for article on the collapse of the Soviet Writers' Union, Moscow, St. Petersburg (Grant 1993a)

Nov 1990 Archival research, Moscow

Apr-Oct 1990 Field and archival research, Sakhalin Island.

Jan 89-Mar 90 Dissertation research; affiliation to Institute of Ethnography, Moscow

Courses Taught

Anthropologies of Socialism (G)

Culture, Meaning, and Society (G)

Culture, Power, Islam (co-taught) (UG)

History and Myth (UG)

History of the Culture Concept (UG)

Human Society and Culture (UG)

Nations and Nationalisms (UG, G)

Political Anthropology (G)

Shamanism (UG)

Socialism on Screen (UG)

Soviet and Post-Soviet Culture (UG)

Soviet Cinema I—The Classics (UG)

Soviet Cinema II—Cinema of the Caucasus and Central Asia (UG)

The Gift (UG, G)

The Optical Unconscious (co-taught) (UG)

The State (G)

Selection Committees

2020-2022 ASEEES Tucker-Cohen Dissertation Prizes

2018-2020 Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research

2016 National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowships

2015-2019 Rustaveli Foundation Research Grants, Republic of Georgia

2015-2017 Norwegian Centre for International Cooperation in Education

2011 Presidential Search, National Council for East European and Eurasian Studies

2011 NCEEER Program on Indigenous People’s Research

2011 Social Science Research Council (SSRC) IDRF Book Fellows

2011 CAORC Critical Language Scholarships

2009-2017 American Philosophical Society Lewis and Clark Fellowships

2009-2011 SSRC International Dissertation Research Fellowship

2009 Cultural Anthropology New Editor Search

2007 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation/ACLS Early Career Fellowship Program

2006-2013 NCEEER Research Grants

2006 SSRC Predissertation International Research Fellowships.

2005 NEH Collaborative Grants in Slavic Studies; NEH Research Grants in Anthropology; Institute for Advanced Study School of Social Science.

2004 Nominations Committee, American Ass’n for the Advancement of Slavic Studies

2003 American Councils, Caucasus and Central Asia Research Scholars, Washington

1997-2003 SSRC Eurasia Fellowships

Prize Committees

2009 Bateson Book Prize Panelist, Society for Cultural Anthropology

2006-2008 Vucinich Prize Panelist, AAASS (Chair 2007, 2008)

2003 Cultural Horizons Prize Organizer (SCA)

1997 American Ethnological Society Senior Book Prize Panelist

Other Professional Committees

2017-2019 Committee on Academic Freedom and Advocacy, ASEEES

2015-2016 Chair, Dissertation Research Grants, ASEEES

2015- Board Member, Friends of Cultural Anthropology [fundraising for open access journal]

2014 Chair, Mentoring Committee, ASEEES

2013 Strategic Planning Committee, ASEEES

Editorial Boards

2015- Northeast Asian Anthropologies (Amsterdam U Press)

2015- Anthropology and Archeology of Eurasia

2013-2019 Central Asian Survey (London)

2011-2019 Public Culture

2010- “Imperial Encounters in Russian History” (Academic Press, Boston)

2006-2021 Slavic Review

2006-2018 Cultural Anthropology

2002- Ethnos (Stockholm)

External Program Reviews

2019 UC Berkeley, Anthropology

2019 Duke University, Cultural Anthropology

2019 Ilia State University (Tbilisi, Georgia), Social Anthropology

2018 Yale University, Slavic Languages and Literatures

2017 European University at St. Petersburg, Social Anthropology

2010 Barnard College, Anthropology

Conferences, Exhibitions, and Speaker Series Organizing

2012 Scientific Committee for and contributor to “Caucasus A-Z: Land and Peoples” Exhibition, held at Tsarytsino Palace, Moscow, online at:



2008a AAASS Program Committee, Philadelphia.

2008b Organizer, “Violence in Eurasia,” Dissertation Development Workshop, New York.

2007a Organizing Committee, Soyuz, Annual Meeting, Princeton.

2007b “Islam Across Eurasia,” Spring Workshop sponsored by Eurasian Connections @ NYU and the Program in Ottoman Studies, online at:

2006 Organizer [with Lale Yalcin-Heckman, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology], of “Caucasus Paradigms,” new ethnographies and cultural histories in post-Soviet space. Archived at: . Halle, Germany.

2005-2008 Director [with Jane Burbank, NYU History] “Eurasian Connections,” Speaker series and reading groups. Online at: .

2004 Organizer [with Lisa Rofel, UC Santa Cruz] of the Biannual Meeting of the Society for Cultural Anthropology, on “Sovereignty,” Portland, Oregon. Archived at: .

2001-2003 Organizer [with Farha Ghannam, Swarthmore College] “Cultures of Islam.” Speaker series.

2001-2003 Organizer, SSRC Caucasus and Central Asia Dissertation Workshops, Seattle, Berkeley, Michigan

2001-2002 AAA Executive Program Committee, New Orleans.

95-00 Team organizer of annual spring conference for “Soyuz, the Research Network for Post-communist Cultural Studies,” held at the Harriman Institute, Columbia University

1994 Organizer, [with Robin Wagner-Pacifici, Sociology] of "Violence and the State: Fear, Force and the Mystical Foundations of Authority.” Invited three-day workshop held at Swarthmore College.

service to NYU anthropology:

18-21 Chair of Department

17-18 Director of Graduate Studies (fall)

Associate Chair (spring)

Tenure Review: One faculty (Chair)

Admissions Committee (Chair)

15-16 Tenure Review: One faculty

Admissions Committee

Chair, Faculty Merit Evaluations

14-15 Admissions Committee

Chair, Faculty Merit Evaluations

Third-Year Review: Two faculty

NYU Shanghai Anthropology Search

13-14 Director of Graduate Studies

Admissions Committee

Faculty Merit Evaluations

Chair, Fellowships and Awards Committee

11-12 Chair, Admissions Committee

Web Redesign Committee

10-12 Director of Graduate Studies

GSAS Fellowships Committee

09-10 Linguistic Anthropology Job Search Committee

Admissions Committee

GSAS Fellowships Committee

07-08 Acting Director of Graduate Studies

Culture and Media Job Search Committee

Admissions Committee

Web Redesign Committee

06-08 Colloquium Organizing

Service to NYU Middle East and Islamic Studies:

13-14 Tenure-Track Job Search Committee

Chair, Committee for Promotion to Full Professor for Department Member

Service to NYU Center for Near Eastern Studies:

17-18 Associate Director Search Committee

15-16 Job Search Committee for Faculty Fellow

11-12 Falak Sufi Memorial Prize Committee

Service to NYU Russian and Slavic Studies:

19-20 Committee for Promotion for Department Member

17-18 Committee for Third-Year Review for Department Member

13-14 Committee for Promotion to Tenure for Department Member

06-07 Committee for Promotion to Tenure for Department Member

Service to NYU East asian studies:

18-19 Committee for Promotion to Tenure for Department Member

17-18 Tenure-Track Job Search Committee

15-16 Two Tenure-Track Job Search Committees

Service to the NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia:

13-17 Faculty Board

Publication Subventions Committee

Service to the NYU Program in International Relations:

18-19 Review of Clinical Professor

17-18 Review of Clinical Professor

16-18 Advisory Board

15-16 Committee on Faculty Performance Reviews

14-15 Hiring Committee for Program Faculty

13-14 Chair, Hiring Committee for Program Director

Service to the NYU Program in Experimental Humanities

2019 AMI Committee

2018 Acting Director

16-19 Advisory Board

19-20 Review of Contract Faculty

Service to the NYU Center for data Science

2019-20 Faculty Search Committee

Service to the University:

17-19 FAS Promotion and Tenure Committee

14-15 GSAS Vice-Dean

--new curricular development

--new policies and programs

--external review of Draper Program

--leading search committee for Digital Humanities

--leading search committee for International History in IR program

13-16 NYU Abu Dhabi Humanities Research Fellowship Panel

13-14 Chair, GSAS International Relation MA Director Search

11-12 FAS Policy and Planning Committee

10-12 CAS Freshman Dialogues Committee

09-12 GSAS Committee on Graduate Curriculum

09-12 CAS FCC Steering Committee

07-17 Fulbright Committee

07-08 GSAS Honors and Awards Committee

Service to NYU Abu Dhabi:

15-19 Humanities Research Fellowships Committee

Service to NYU Shanghai:

19-22 Promotion and Tenure Committee

NYU Anthropology Doctoral Committees:

2017-- Alia Ayman (Core)

2016-- Laura Murray (Advisor)

2016-- Maria Lechtarova (Advisor)

2016--2018 Kapish Singla (Core)

2016-- Nathan Madson (Core)

2014-- Sarah Riccardi (Advisor)

2014-- Zeynep Sertbulut (Core)

2013-- Schuyler Marquez (Core)

2013-- Joseph Livesey (Advisor)

2012-18 Brinton Ahlin (Advisor)

2012-16 Narges Bajoghli (External)

2011-16 Matt Canfield (Core)

2011-2017 Vijayanka Nair (Core)

2010-2011 Damien Stankiewicz (External)

2010-2013 Vanessa Agard-Jones (External)

2010-2016 Amy Field (External)

2009-2017 Irina Levin (Advisor)

2008-2011 Joe Crescente (Advisor)

2008-2009 Naomi Schiller (Core)

2007 Elise Andaya (External)

2007-2008 Anna Wilking (Core)

2007-2014 Yasmin Moll (External)

2007-2014 Chantal White (Core)

2006-2008 Nick Hersh (Advisor)

2006-2016 Noah Pleshet (Core)

2005-2008 Heather Weyrick (Core)

2005-2010 Anya Bernstein (Advisor)

NYU History doctoral Committees:

2019 Kathryn David, “One Ukraine, Under God” (External)

2018-- Giulio Salvati, “Resettlement, State, and Power in Germany and Italy” (Core)

2009-2013 David Rainbow, “Tsarist Nationality Policy in Siberia.” (External)

2009-2013 Karen Weber, “Lutherans on Trial in the Russian Empire.”

2006-2010 Lauren Kaminsky, “Soviet Family Values in the Stalin-Era Soviet Union.” (External).

2006 Chia-Yin Hsu, “The Chinese Eastern Railroad and the Making of Russian Imperial Orders in the Far East.” (External)

NYU Media, Culture, and Communication doctoral Committee:

2011-2012 Wazhmah Osman, “Afghan Media Worlds” (External).

NYU Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies doctoral Committees:

2016-- Rustin Zarkar, “Flights across the Caspian Sea” (Co-Advisor)

2016-- Ian VanderMeulen, “Sonic Politics in Morocco” (Core)

2010-2014 Lyuba Grinberg, “Guardians of Muscovy” (Core)

2010-2014 Masha Kirasirova, “Soviet Internationalism in the Middle East” (Core)

NYU Music doctoral Committees:

2019-- Brian Fairley, “Dissected Listening: Polyphony in Georgia” (External)

NYU Near eastern Studies MA Committees:

2018- Gordiya Khademian, “Tadjikistan and Public Performance” (Advisor)

2017- Egina Manachova, “Terror over Time and Space and Central Asia” (Advisor)

2017-2018 Miray Cakiroglu, “Turkish Tombs and Borders” (Reader)

2011-2012 Rosa Norton, “Granada and the Haunting of the Moors” (Advisor)

2011-2012 Alexandra Soprano, “The Negotiation of Turkishness in the Turkish Museum” (Advisor)

2007-2008 Annette Georgia, “An Ethnographic Study of the 96th Street Mosque” (Advisor)

NYU Russian and slavic studies MA Committees:

2015-2017 Nigar Hacizade, “Soviet Olympians of the Caucasus” [with Journalism] (Advisor).

NYU Experimental humanities and social engagement MA Committees:

2019- Jayata Narain, “Urban Politics in Contemporary Delhi” (Advisor)

2018- Alex Sullivan, “Remaking Online Religious Communities” (Advisor)

2018- Shaoyu Tang, “The Rise of the Middle Class in China” (Advisor)

External Doctoral Committees

2019-- Ricard Rivera (Anthropology, UC Berkeley) “Ottoman Histories in Georgian Batum”

2019 Victoria Fomina (Anthropology, CEU Budapest), “Nationalism in Russia and Cyprus”

2019 Nathan Jones (Anthropology, CUNY), “Being Ethnic on the Eurasian Steppe”

2019-- Sergey Saluschev (History, UC Santa Barbara), “Reluctant Abolitionists”

2019 Mehmonsho Sharifov (Anthropology, U Bergen, Norway), “To Whom Does the Willayat Belong”

2019 Aeron O’Connor (Social Anthropology, UC London), “Changing Conditions of Cultural Production in Dushanbe, Tajikistan”

2018 Kelsey Rice (U Penn, Middle Eastern Studies) “A History of the Caucasus Press”

2015-- Önder Çelik (Johns Hopkins U, Anthropology) “Hunting for Treasure in Van”

2016 Sascha Roth (Martin Luther U, Halle, Germany) “Housing in Azerbaijan”

2015 Étienne Peyrat (Sciences Po, Paris) “Rethinking Caucasus Borders”

2015 Anna Kruglova (Anthropology, Toronto) “Morality and Social Theory in Russia”

2015 Alexander Manuylov (Anthropology, U Bergen), “Russian Greeks / Greek Russians”

2015-- Grace Zhou (Anthropology, Stanford U) “Histories of the Sea of Azov”

2015 Trine Korsby (Anthropology, U Copenhagen) “Hustlers of Desire: The Moral Economy of Pimping in Eastern Romania”

2013-2015 Claire Kaiser (History, U Penn) “The Politics of Nationality in Soviet Georgia”

2012-2016 Isa Karasioglu (Anthropology, Teachers C, Columbia) “An Ethnography of Nardaran, Azerbaijan”

2011 Susan Hicks (Anthropology, UBC), “The Politics of Culture and Nature in Russia’s Diamond Province.”

2011 Zhanara Nauruzbayeva (Anthropology, Stanford), “Central Asian Artworlds.”

2010-2014 Krista Goff (History, University of Michigan), “Minorities in Azerbaijan.”

2008-2013 Chigusa Yamaura (Rutgers University), “Bride Markets and National Economies in China and Japan.”

2008-2016 Gregor Sokol (New School for Social Research). “Polish Psychiatry in the Postsocialist Age.”

2007-2012 Smoki Musaraj (New School for Social Research) “Gift and Bribe: Corruption in Contemporary Albania.”

2006 Jeremy Tasch (Geography, Clark University). Transitional Geography in the Russian Far East.”

2005 Tova Hojdestrand (Social Anthropology, University of Stockholm). “Homelessness in St. Petersburg.” Invited opponent.

2005-2012 Hulya Sakarya (Anthropology, Temple University) “Georgian Multiculturalism”

2005 Serguei Oushakine (Anthropology, Columbia University) “Patriotism of Despair: Communities of Loss and National Memory in Russia.”

2003-2005 Ali Igmen (History, University of Washington, Seattle), “Modernizing though Arts: Houses of Culture in the Kyrgyz Soviet Socialist Republic.”

2003 Karen McGarry (Social Anthropology, York University), “Performing Nationalisms: Spectacle and Identity in High Performance Canadian Figure Skating.”

2002-2004 Veronica Aplenc (Folklore and Folklife, University of Pennsylvania), ““Competing Moral Landscapes of 20th Century Slovenian Modernity.”

1997-2001 Susan Crate, (Anthropology and Ecology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill), “Cows, Kin and Capitalism: Survival in Siberia into the 21st Century.”

2000-2001 Jennifer Patico (Anthropology, New York University), “Consumption in Post-Soviet Russia.”

2000 Frederic Bertrand, (Anthropology, University of Bordeaux), “L’Ethnographie soviétique en train de se faire: Regard anthropologique sur le processus de légitimation des années 20-30.”Invited opponent.

1997-2001 Nelson Hancock (Anthropology, Columbia University), “Cultural Politics and Native Economy in Central Kamchatka.”

Languages:

Russian, French, Azeri

Professional Affiliations

American Anthropological Association

Society for Cultural Anthropology

Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies

Soyuz

Book Series

2000- Editor [with Nancy Ries] of “Culture and Society after Socialism.” Cornell University Press.

Vol. 1: Caroline Humphrey (Cambridge, Social Anthropology) The Unmaking of Soviet Life: Everyday Economies after Socialism (2002) *Winner of the Heldt Prize in Slavic Studies (AWSS)

Vol. 2: Katherine Verdery (U Michigan, Anthropology), The Vanishing Hectare: Property and Value in Postsocialist Transylvania (2003) *Winner of the William A. Douglass Book Prize in Europeanist Anthropology (SAE), Winner of the Staley Prize from the School of American Research

Vol. 3: Michael Urban (UC Santa Cruz, Political Science), Russia Gets the Blues: Music, Culture and Community in Unsettled Times (2004)

Vol. 4: Elizabeth Dunn (U Colorado, Boulder, Geography), Privatizing Poland:

Baby Food, Big Business, and the Remaking of Labor (2004) *Winner of the Hewitt and Orbis Prizes (AAASS)

Vol. 5: Francine Hirsch (U Wisconsin, Madison, History) Empire of Nations: Ethnographic Knowledge and the Making of the Soviet Union (2005) *Winner of the Wayne S. Vucinich Prize for Best Book of the Year in Slavic Studies (AAASS); Winner of the Council of European Studies Book Award; Winner of the Herbert Baxter Adams Book Prize of the American Historical Association

Vol. 6: Laada Bilaniuk (U Washington, Seattle, Anthropology) Contested Tongues: Language Politics and Cultural Correction in Ukraine (2005) * Winner of the Best Contribution to Slavic Linguistics Book Prize (AATSEEL)

Vol. 7: Mathijs Pelkmans (Max Planck Institute, Germany) Defending the Border: Religion, Culture, and Politics in the Georgian Borderlands (2006) *Winner of the William A. Douglass Book Prize in Europeanist Anthropology (SAE)

Vol. 8: Alena Ledeneva (University College, London, Politics) How Russia Really Works: The Informal Way of Getting Things Done in the 1990s (2006)

Vol. 9: Catherine Wanner (Penn State, History), Communities of the Converted: Evangelism in Ukraine (2007) *Winner of the AAUS Prize for Best Book in the fields of Ukrainian history, politics, language, literature, and culture given by the American Association of Ukrainian Studies *Winner of the Heldt Prize in Slavic Studies (AWSS) *Winner of the William A. Douglass Book Prize in Europeanist Anthropology *Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2008.

Vol. 10: Eliot Borenstein (NYU, Russian and Slavic Studies), Overkill: Sex, Violence and Popular Culture in Post-Soviet Russia (2008) *Winner of the Heldt Prize in Slavic Studies (AWSS)

Vol. 11: Serguei Oushakine (Princeton, Slavic Languages and Literatures), Patriotism of Despair: Communities of Loss in Contemporary Russia (2009). *Winner of the AATSEEL Prize for Best Book in Literary or Cultural Criticism

Vol. 12: Bruce Grant (NYU Anthropology), The Captive and the Gift: Cultural Histories of Sovereignty in Russia and the Caucasus (2009) *Honorable Mention for the Harvard Center Davis Book Prize

Vol 13: Tova Höjdestrand (U Stockholm), Needed by Nobody: Homelessness and Humanness in Postsocialist Russia (2009)

Vol. 14: Douglas Rogers (Yale Anthropology), The Old Faith and the Russian Land: A Historical Ethnography of Ethics in the Urals (2009) *Honorable Mention for the Harvard Center Davis Book Prize

Vol 15: Morten Pedersen (U Copenhagen), Not Quite Shamans: Political Lives and Spirit Worlds in Mongolia after Socialism (2011) *Honorable Mention for the Gregory Bateson Book Prize from the Society for Cultural Anthropology

Vol 16: Madeleine Reeves (U Manchester), Border Work: Materializing the State in Central Asia (2014). *Winner of the ASN Joseph Rothschild Prize, Winner of the BASEES Alexander Nove Prize, Honorable Mention for the Central Eurasian Studies Society Book Prize, and for the ASEEES Heldt Prize.

Vol. 17: (Mark Bassin, (Södertörns Högskola), The Gumilev Mystique: Biopolitics, Eurasianism, and the Construction of Community in Modern Russia (2016). *Honorable Mention for the ASEEES Reginald Zelnik Book Prize in History.

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