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Serguei Alex. Oushakine

position:  Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures; Associate Faculty in the Department of Anthropology
location:  226 East Pyne Hall
office hours:  On leave in 2009-2010
e-mail:  oushakin@princeton.edu
education:  PhD with distinction in Anthropology (Columbia University, 2005); Master of Philosophy in Anthropology (Columbia University, 2002); Master of Philosophy in Gender Studies (Central European University, Hungary / Open University, Great Britain, 1998); Kandidat of Political Sciences (Faculty of Philosophy, St. Petersburg State University, Russia, 1995); Diploma in History and Social Sciences with Excellence (Altai State University, Russia, 1988)
website:  http://www.princeton.edu/oushakine/
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authored books:

  The Patriotism of Despair: Nation, War, and Loss in Russia.

Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2009.
  Поле пола. Сборник статей. [The Field of Gender. Collected Essays of Serguei Oushakine.]
Vilnus: European Humanities University, 2007.

edited volumes:

  In Marx's Shadow: Knowledge, Power, and Intellectuals in Eastern Europe and Russia.

New York: Lexington Books, 2010. (Co-edited with Costica Bradatan)
  Wither the Intelligentsia: The End of the Moral Elite in Eastern Europe.
Guest editor of the special issue of Studies in East European Thought. Vol.61 (4), November 2009.
  ТРАВМА:ПУНКТЫ. [Trauma:Points]
Ed. by Serguei Oushakine and Elena Trubina. Moscow: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 2009.
  Разговоры о "Разговорах..." [Talking about "Talks..."]
Guest Editor of the special issue of Etnograficheskoe obozrenie on Nancy Ries' Russian Talk: Culture and Conversation During Perestroika. Trans. from English. Moscow: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 2005.
Etnograficheskoe obozrenie. Vol.5 (2006).

  Семейные узы: модели для сборки. [Family Ties: Models to Assemble.] Vol.1.

Ed. Serguei Oushakine. Moscow: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 2004.

  Семейные узы: модели для сборки. [Family Ties: Models to Assemble.] Vol.2.

Ed. Serguei Oushakine. Moscow: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 2004.
  О муже(N)ственности. [On Masculinity.]
Ed. Serguei Oushakine. Moscow: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 2002.

selected articles:

"Бывшее в употреблении: Постсоветское состояние как форма афазии."
in Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie,Vol.100(2009).
Review of Picturing Russia: Explorations in Visual Culture. Ed. by Valerie A. Kivelson and Joan Neuberger. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008.
in Slavic and East European Journal. Vol.53, No 3(2009), 510-512.
"Introduction. Wither the Intelligentsia: The End of the Moral Elite in Eastern Europe."
in Studies in East European Thought. Vol 61 (4), November 2009: 243-248.
""Нам этой болью дышать"? О травме, памяти и сообществах."
in Травма:Пункты. Под ред. Сергея Ушакина и Елены Трубиной. Москва: Новое литературное обозрение, 2009. Сс.5-41.
“'Stop the Invasion!': Money, Patriotism, and Conspiracy in Russia."
in Social Research: An International Quarterly of the Social Sciences.Vol. 76. No 1 (Spring 2009).
"Осколки военной памяти: "Всё, что осталось от такого ужаса?""
in Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie. Vol. 5 (2008): 234-241.
"'Мы в Город Изумрудный идём дорогой трудной': маленькие радости весёлых человечков."
in Весёлые человечки: культурные герои советского детства. Сб. статей / Сост. и ред. И. Кукулин, М. Липовецкий, М. Майофис. - Москва: Новое литературное обозрение, 2008. Сс.9-60.
"О пользе фиктивного родства: заметки о пропущенных именах."
in Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie. Vol. 1 (2008): 201-212. 
"Devising the Grammar of Bolshevik Ethnospeak: Assimilated Ethnographers in the Empire of Nation."
Review of Empire of Nations: Ethnographic Knowledge and the Making of the Soviet Union. By Francine Hirsch. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2005.
in Current Anthropology. Vol. 49 (2), April 2008: 346-348.

"Vitality Rediscovered: Theorizing Post-Soviet Ethnicity in Russian Social Sciences."
in Studies in East European Thought. Vol.59 No 3 (September, 2007): 171-193.
"Aesthetics Without Law: Cinematic Bandits in Post-Soviet Space."
in Slavic and East European Journal. Vol. 51 No. 2 (Summer 2007): 357-390.
"'We're Nostalgic But We're Not Crazy': Retrofitting The Past In Russia."
in The Russian Review. Vol. 66 No. 3 (2007): 451-482.
"Вне находимости: Бахтин как чужое своё."
in Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie. Vol. 3 (2006): 73-86.
"Движения молодёжи."
Review of Х. Пилкингтон, Е. Омельченко, М. Флинн, У. Блюдина, Е. Старкова. Глядя на Запад: Культурная глобализация и российские молодежные культуры. Пер. с англ. С-Петербург, 2004. - 278 с.; П. Данилин. Новая молодежная политика 2003-2005. Москва: Европа, 2006. - 292 с.
in Neprikosnovennyi zapas. Vol.3 (2006): 223-234.
"Politics of Pity: Domesticating Loss in a Russian Province."
in American Anthropologist. Vol. 108, No. 2 (2006): 297-311.
"The Flexible and the Pliant: Disturbed Organisms of Soviet Modernity."
in Cultural Anthropology. Vol. 19, No. 3 (2004): 392–428.
"Crimes of Substitution: Detection and the Late Soviet Society."
in Public Culture. Vol. 15, No. 3 (2003): 426–452.
"The Fatal Splitting: Symbolizing Anxiety in Post/Soviet Russia."
in Ethnos: Journal of Anthropology. Vol. 66, No. 3 (2001): 291-319.
"Познавая в сравнении: о евро-стандартах, мужчинах и истории".
Review of Russian Masculinities in History and Culture. Eds. Barbara Evans Clements, Rebecca Friedman, and Dan Healey. New York: Palgrave, 2002. in Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie. Vol. 64 (2003).
"The Terrifying Mimicry of Samizdat."
in Public Culture. Vol. 13, No. 2 (2001): 191-214.
"The Quantity of Style: Imaginary Consumption in the Post-Soviet Russia."
in Theory, Culture and Society. Vol. 17, No. 5 (2000): 97-120.
"In the State of Post-Soviet Aphasia: Symbolic Development in Contemporary Russia."
in Europe-Asia Studies. Vol. 52, No. 6 (2000): 991-1016.



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