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(ABD, Columbia University, Assistant Instructor, SAS) race, liberalism, post-socialism, political violence, genocide, trauma, reconciliation, Holocaust Studies, the Czech Republic, Eastern Europe
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Education
Courses Offered
Experiencing the New Europe [link: https://sakai.rutgers.edu/portal/site/049c6ec0-cd44-48ac-00f8-9b92ed4832ea], summer field school in ethnography held in the Polish city of Wroclaw at the University of Lower Silesia Anth 238 [link: https://sakai.rutgers.edu/portal/site/cf1a44ff-bdb6-4afa-0073-0863fcc6f1c8]: The Anthropology of Europe: Ethnography and the New Europe Anth 311 [https://sakai.rutgers.edu/portal/site/f738c040-7ddd-4370-009b-43c2d0c76bec]: The History of Anthropology Anth 372 [https://sakai.rutgers.edu/portal/site/a74f32df-2ba8-4db2-805d-f1f2b1560eee]: The Anthropology of the Body
Anth 376 [link: https://sakai.rutgers.edu/portal/site/978daeae-4578-4bac-8089-f8048216f7ec]: Power and Difference: Poverty Knowledge and Urban Ethnography Anth 380 [link: https://sakai.rutgers.edu/portal/site/7472d352-41f5-4c4d-8056-07615963e684]: Culture, Memory, History Upcoming Presentations The Veracious Voice: The Romani Holocaust and the Politics of Commensuration in the Czech Republic Tuesday, April 8, 4:30 – 6 pm Bildner Center, 12 College Ave. (Seminar Room, first floor) Holocaust Studies Faculty Seminar, Rutgers University Current Projects Everyday Life and the Camps: Interdisciplinary Perspectives Co-organizer, with Elissa Mailaender Koslov Interdisciplinary research project on everyday life and the National Socialist camp system Aftermath: Accounting for the Holocaust in the Czech Republic, 1945-2005 (dissertation manuscript) Selected Publications Co-editor of a special issue of the journal Anthropology of East Europe Review: “Roma and Gadje,” with Shannon Woodcock and Yasar Abu Ghosh (forthcoming) "Talking Nicely": The Bio-Politics of Social Work in the Ostrava Roma Community.” In: Timothy Hall and Rosie Read, eds. Changes in the Heart of Europe: Recent Ethnographies of Czechs, Slovaks, Roma and Sorbs. Stuttgart: Ibidem-Verlag, 2006. “Juergen Habermas ” and “Michel Foucault.” In: William A. Darity, ed. International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences. 2nd Edition. Macmillan Reference, forthcoming 2008. Ghetto Terezín: On the Living Conditions of a Roma Family. Produced by Story AB, Stockholm. Documentary filmed in collaboration with David Aronowitsch and Osamu Okamura, Terezín, Czech Republic, 1999. Awards, Fellowships, and Grants Charles H. Revson Fellowship for Archival Research, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2005-2006 Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Award, Czech Republic, 2003-2004 Foreign Language Area Studies Scholarship, 2000-2001 Harriman Institute Junior Fellowship, 2002 Pepsico Summer Research Fellowship, 2002 Harriman Institute Summer Language Fellowship, 1999 Scheps Research Scholarship, 1999 Price Fellowship, 1989-1993, 1998-1999 Service Co-Founder and Board Member, International Institute for the Study of Culture and Education, University of Lower Silesia, Wroclaw, Poland |