Contributors

Olga Sezneva is a Collegiate Assistant Professor and the Harper Fellow at the University of Chicago’s Society of Fellows. Her forthcoming book, Contingent Place, Tenacious Homeland, traces the conversion of the German city of Koenigsberg into the Soviet, and recently Russian, city of Kaliningrad.

Ailsa Craig is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Memorial University of Newfoundland and a Fulbright Scholar. She received her Ph.D. from New York University. Her areas of interest include culture, identity, community, gender, and inequality.

Erin O’Connor is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Sociology at the New School for Social Research in New York City. Her chief interests are ethnographic field methods, social theory, cultural sociology, and the sociology of knowledge. Her Ph.D. dissertation is an ethnography of the development of practical knowledge in glassblowing.

Alexandra Kowalski holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from New York University. She is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology at the Central European University in Budapest, Hungary.

Melissa Aronczyk is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Culture and Communication at New York University. Her dissertation research focuses on the phenomenon of nation branding and its implications for space, citizenship and national identity. She is a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Fellow.

Matthew Gill is an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at Washington University in St. Louis. The research for his chapter was conducted as part of his recent Ph.D. in Sociology at the London School of Economics, during which he is grateful to have been supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council.

Marion Wrenn is a Ph.D. candidate in Culture and Communication at New York University where she is working on her dissertation: Inventing Warriors: U.S. Philanthropies and the Post-War Reorientation of Foreign Journalists. She is a faculty member in New York University’s Expository Writing Program.

Claudio Benzecry is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Connecticut. Recent publications include articles in Theory and Society, Ethnography, the Annals of the American Academy of Social and Political Sciences, and Theory, Culture and Society.

Alton Phillips is a graduate student in the Department of Sociology at New York University. His current research focuses on the social history of nevirapine and the provisioning of anti-retroviral treatment in developing and transitional economies.

Monika Krause studied sociology at the universities of Munich, Cambridge and the London School of Economics and is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Sociology at New York University. Her research interests include critical theory and the sociology of culture.