Kristen Rogheh Ghodsee (born April 26, 1970) is an American ethnographer and Professor of Russian and East European Studies at the

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. She is primarily known for her ethnographic work on

post-Communist Post-communism is the period of political and economic transformation or transition in former communist states located in Eastern Europe and parts of Africa and Asia in which new governments aimed to create free market-oriented capitalist economi ...

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as well as being a contributor to the field of postsocialist

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. She was critical of the role of Western feminist

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doing work among East European women in the 1990s. She examined the shifting gender relations of Muslim minorities after Communist rule, and the intersections of Islamic beliefs and practices with the ideological remains of

Marxism–Leninism Marxism–Leninism is a communist ideology which was the main communist movement throughout the 20th century. Developed by the Bolsheviks, it was the state ideology of the Soviet Union, its satellite states in the Eastern Bloc, and vario ...

Career

Ghodsee received her B.A. from the

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and her Ph.D. from the

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. She has been awarded numerous research fellowships, including those from the

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, the

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, the

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(IREX), and the National Council for Eurasian and East European Research. She was a resident fellow at the

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in Princeton, The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, The

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in Rostock, Germany, the

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, and the

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(FRIAS). In 2012, she was elected president of the Society for Humanistic Anthropology.

Work

Red nostalgia, victims of Communism, and neoliberalism

In 2004, Ghodsee published one of the first articles considering the gendered aspects of the growing

Communist nostalgia Communist nostalgia, also called communism nostalgia or socialist nostalgia, is the nostalgia in various post-communist states of Central and Eastern Europe and Russia for the prior communist states. Bartmanski, DominikSuccessful icons of failed t ...

in Eastern Europe. Already beginning in the late 1990s, various scholars were examining the phenomenon of '' Ostalgie'' in former

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and what had been called

Yugo-nostalgia Yugo-nostalgia ( Slovene, Macedonian, and sh-Latn-Cyrl, jugonostalgija, југоносталгија) is a political and cultural phenomenon found among the populations of the former Yugoslavia, in the present-day Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croat ...

in the successor states of the former Socialist Yugoslavia. This earlier work on the emergence of Communist nostalgia focused on its consumer aspects and considered the phenomenon a necessary phase that

populations needed to pass through in order to fully break with their Communist pasts. In contrast, her concept of "red nostalgia" considered how individual men and women experienced the loss of the real material benefits of the socialist past. Rather than just a wistful glance back at a lost youth, red nostalgia formed the basis of an emerging critique of the political and economic upheavals that characterized the postsocialist era. Ghodsee has explored the politics of

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about

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World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the World War II by country, vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great power ...

, and the

Holocaust in Bulgaria The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was the genocide of History of the Jews in Europe, European Jews during World War II. Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and #Collaboration, its collaborators systematically murdered some Holoc ...

. According Ghodsee, the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation is a

conservative Conservatism is a cultural, social, and political philosophy that seeks to promote and to preserve traditional institutions, practices, and values. The central tenets of conservatism may vary in relation to the culture and civilization in ...

anti-communist Anti-communism is political and ideological opposition to communism. Organized anti-communism developed after the 1917 October Revolution in the Russian Empire, and it reached global dimensions during the Cold War, when the United States and the ...

organization which seeks to equate

communism Communism (from Latin la, communis, lit=common, universal, label=none) is a far-left sociopolitical, philosophical, and economic ideology and current within the socialist movement whose goal is the establishment of a communist society, ...

with murder such as by erecting billboards in Times Square which declare "100 years, 100 million killed" and "Communism kills."Ghodsee, Kristen R.; Sehon, Scott; Dresser, Sam, ed. (22 March 2018)
"The merits of taking an anti-anti-communism stance"
''

Aeon The word aeon , also spelled eon (in American and Australian English), originally meant "life", "vital force" or "being", "generation" or "a period of time", though it tended to be translated as "age" in the sense of "ages", "forever", "timele ...

''. Retrieved 11 February 2020. Ghodsee posits that the foundation, along with counterpart conservative organizations in Eastern Europe, seeks to institutionalize the "Victims of Communism" narrative as a double genocide theory, or the moral equivalence between the

Nazi Holocaust The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe; ar ...

(race murder) and the victims of Communism (class murder).Ghodsee, Kristen (Fall 2014)
"A Tale of 'Two Totalitarianisms': The Crisis of Capitalism and the Historical Memory of Communism"
''History of the Present: A Journal of Critical History''. 4 (2): 115–142. . . Ghodsee argues the 100 million estimate favored by the foundation is dubious, as their source for this is the controversial introduction to ''

The Black Book of Communism ''The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression'' is a 1997 book by Stéphane Courtois, Andrzej Paczkowski, Nicolas Werth, Jean-Louis Margolin, and several other European academics documenting a history of political repression by co ...

'' by

Stéphane Courtois Stéphane Courtois (born 25 November 1947) is a French historian and university professor, a director of research at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), professor at the Catholic Institute of Higher Studies (ICES) in La Ro ...

. She also says that this effort by anti-communist conservative organizations has intensified, in particular the recent push at the beginning of the

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for commemoration of the latter in Europe, and can be seen as the response by economic and political elites to fears of a

leftist Left-wing politics describes the range of political ideologies that support and seek to achieve social equality and egalitarianism, often in opposition to social hierarchy. Left-wing politics typically involve a concern for those in so ...

resurgence in the face of devastated economies and extreme

inequalities Inequality may refer to: Economics * Attention inequality, unequal distribution of attention across users, groups of people, issues in etc. in attention economy * Economic inequality, difference in economic well-being between population groups * ...

in both the East and West as the result of the excesses of

neoliberal Neoliberalism (also neo-liberalism) is a term used to signify the late 20th century political reappearance of 19th-century ideas associated with free-market capitalism after it fell into decline following the Second World War. A prominent f ...

capitalism Capitalism is an economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production and their operation for profit. Central characteristics of capitalism include capital accumulation, competitive markets, price system, private ...

. Ghodsee argues that any discussion of the achievements under Communist states, including literacy, education, women's rights, and social security is usually silenced, and any discourse on the subject of communism is focused almost exclusively on Stalin's crimes and the double genocide theory. In her 2017 book ''Red Hangover: Legacies of Twentieth-Century Communism'', Ghodsee posits that the triumphalist attitudes of Western powers at the end of the

Cold War The Cold War is a term commonly used to refer to a period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc. The term '' cold war'' is used because t ...

, and the fixation with linking all leftist and

socialist Socialism is a left-wing economic philosophy and movement encompassing a range of economic systems characterized by the dominance of social ownership of the means of production as opposed to private ownership. As a term, it describes the ...

political ideals with the horrors of

Stalinism Stalinism is the means of governing and Marxist-Leninist policies implemented in the Soviet Union from 1927 to 1953 by Joseph Stalin. It included the creation of a one-party totalitarian police state, rapid industrialization, the the ...

, allowed neoliberalism to fill the void, which undermined democratic institutions and reforms, leaving a trail of economic misery, unemployment, hopelessness and rising inequality throughout the former

Eastern Bloc The Eastern Bloc, also known as the Communist Bloc and the Soviet Bloc, was the group of socialist states of Central and Eastern Europe, East Asia, Southeast Asia, Africa, and Latin America under the influence of the Soviet Union that existed du ...

and much of the West in the following decades that has fueled the rise of extremist

right-wing nationalism Right-wing populism, also called national populism and right-wing nationalism, is a political ideology that combines right-wing politics and populist rhetoric and themes. Its rhetoric employs anti-elitist sentiments, opposition to the Establi ...

in both the former and the latter. She says that the time has come "to rethink the democratic project and finally do the work necessary to either rescue it from the death grip of neoliberalism, or replace it with a new political ideal that leads us forward to a new stage of human history."

Literary ethnography

Ghodsee's later work combines traditional ethnography with a literary sensibility, employing the stylistic conventions of creative nonfiction to produce academic texts that are meant to be accessible to a wider audience. Inspired by the work of

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and the conventions of "

thick description In the social sciences and related fields, a thick description is a description of human social action that describes not just physical behaviors, but their context as interpreted by the actors as well, so that it can be better understood by an o ...

", she is a proponent of "literary ethnography." This genre uses narrative tension, dialogue and lyrical prose in the presentation of ethnographic data. Furthermore, Ghodsee argues that literary ethnographies are often "documentary ethnographies", i.e. ethnographies whose primary purpose is to explore the inner working of a particular culture without necessarily subsuming these observations to a specific theoretical agenda. Ghodsee's third book, ''Lost in Transition: Ethnographies of Everyday Life After Communism'', combines personal ethnographic essays with ethnographic fiction to paint a human portrait of the political and economic transition from Communist rule. While some reviewers have found the book "compelling and highly readable", and "an enchanting, deeply intimate and experimental ethnographic narrative", others have faulted the book for telling a story "at the expense of theory." That the book was judged "remarkably free of academic jargon and neologisms" produced very "mixed feelings" within the scholarly community, with one critic stating that "the somewhat unconventional technique of incorporating fiction alongside her hodsee'sethnographic vignettes feels a bit forced." Outside of academia, however, one reviewer claimed that ''Lost in Transition'' "is very easy to read and is, in fact, impossible to put down, largely because it is so well-written."

Awards

Ghodsee's 2010 book, ''Muslim Lives in Eastern Europe: Gender, Ethnicity and the Transformation of Islam in Postsocialist Bulgaria'' was awarded the 2010 Barbara

Heldt Prize The Heldt Prize is a literary award from the Association for Women in Slavic Studies named in honor of Barbara Heldt. The award has been given variously in the following categories: *Best book in Slavic/Eastern European/Eurasian Women's Studies ...

for the best book, by a woman in Slavic/Eurasian/East European Studies, the 2011 Harvard University/Davis Center Book Prize from the Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies, the 2011 John D. Bell Book Prize from the Bulgarian Studies Association and the 2011 William A. Douglass Prize in Europeanist Anthropology from the Society for the Anthropology of Europe of the

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. Ghodsee won the 2011 Ethnographic Fiction Prize from the Society for Humanistic Anthropology for the short story "Tito Trivia," included in her book, ''Lost in Transition: Ethnographies of Everyday Life After Communism''. Together with co-author, Charles Dorn, Ghodsee was awarded the 2012 Best Article Prize from the History of Education Society (HES) for the article in the journal ''

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'': “The Cold War Politicization of Literacy: UNESCO, Communism, and the World Bank.” In 2012, she won a John Simon

Guggenheim Fellowship Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the art ...

for her work in anthropology and cultural studies.

Scholarly feminist review

Ghodsee's scholarly work on gender and everyday life during and after socialism has drawn criticism from Western feminists. In a 2014 essay in the ''European Journal of Women's Studies'', philosopher Nanette Funk included Ghodsee among a handful of "Revisionist Feminist Scholars" who uncritically tout the achievements of communist-era women's organizations, ignoring the oppressive nature of authoritarian regimes in

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. Funk argued that the "Feminist Revisionists" are too eager in their "desire to find women’s agency in an anti-capitalist Marxist past" and that this "leads to distortions" and "making overly bold claims" about the possibilities for feminist activism under Communist states. In response, Ghodsee asserts that her scholarship seeks to expand the idea of feminism beyond the attainment of "personal self-actualization", asserting that "if the goal of feminism is to improve women's lives, along with eliminating discrimination and promoting equality with men, then there is ample room to reconsider what Krassimira Daskalova calls the 'women-friendly' policies of state socialist women's organizations". She notes that "the goal of much recent scholarship on state socialist women's organizations is to show how the communist ideology could lead to real improvements in women's literacy, education, professional training, as well as access to health care, the extension of paid maternity leave, and a reduction of their economic dependence on men (facts that even Funk does not deny)".

Personal life

Ghodsee identifies herself as being of "Puerto Rican-Persian" heritage. Her father was Persian, and her mother Puerto Rican. Ghodsee grew up in

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. While attending university she met and married a Bulgarian law student. She is the mother of one teenage daughter.

Books

*Kristen Ghodsee, ''Red Valkyries: Feminist Lessons from Five Revolutionary Women.'' New York and London: Verso Books, 2022. *Kristen Ghodsee and Mitchell A. Orenstein, ''Taking Stock of Shock: Social Consequences of the 1989 Revolutions''. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. * Kristen R. Ghodsee, ''Second World, Second Sex: Socialist Women's Activism and Global Solidarity during the Cold War'', Durham,

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, 2019. * Kristen R. Ghodsee, '' Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism and other arguments for economic independence'', Nation Books, 2018. Also available in Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Dutch, Russian, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Indonesian, Thai, Korean, and Japanese. * Kristen Ghodsee
''Red Hangover: Legacies of Twentieth-Century Communism''
Durham,

, 2017. * Kristen Ghodsee, ''From Notes to Narrative: Writing Ethnographies that Everyone Can Read''. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016. * Kristen Ghodsee
''The Left Side of History: World War II and the Unfulfilled Promise of Communism in Eastern Europe''
Durham,

, 2015. * Kristen Ghodsee
''Lost in Transition: Ethnographies of Everyday Life After Communism''
Durham:

, 2011. * Kristen Ghodsee
''Muslim Lives in Eastern Europe: Gender, Ethnicity and the Transformation of Islam in Postsocialist Bulgaria''
Princeton:

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, 2009. * Kristen Ghodsee,
''The Red Riviera: Gender, Tourism and Postsocialism on the Black Sea''
Durham:

, 2005. * Rachel Connelly and Kristen Ghodsee,
''Professor Mommy: Finding Work/Family Balance in Academia''

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Publishers, Inc., 2011.

Significant journal articles

* "Pressuring the Politburo: The Committee of the Bulgarian Women's Movement and State Socialist Feminism," ''

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'', Volume 73, Number 2, Fall 2014. *
Rethinking State Socialist Mass Women's Organizations: The Committee of the Bulgarian Women's Movement and the United Nations Decade for Women, 1975-1985
, ''Journal of Women's History'', Volume 24, Number 4, Winter 2012. * "Subtle Censorships: Notes on Studying Bulgarian Women's Lives Under Communism," ''

Journal of Women's History The ''Journal of Women's History'' is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal established in 1989 covering women's history. It explores multiple perspectives of feminism rather than promoting a single unifying form. Articles published in this ...

'': Beyond the Page, Fall 2012 * "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) * With Amy Borovoy * * "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: 6-27 * *"Minarets after Marx: Islam, Communist Nostalgia, and the Common Good in Postsocialist Bulgaria."
East European Politics & Societies
', November 2010 24: 520-542 *"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).
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"
''

Women's Studies Quarterly ''Women's Studies Quarterly'', often referred to as ''WSQ'', is a biannual peer-reviewed academic journal of women's studies that was established in 1972 and published by The Feminist Press. The Feminist Press was founded by Florence Howe in 1970. ...

'', Fall & Winter 2003 (Vol. 31, No. 3 & 4)
Revisiting 1989: The Specter Still Haunts
''Dissent Magazine'', Spring 2012 *
Коса ("Hair" in Bulgarian) разказ от Кристен Ghodsee
* "Tito Trivia" ''Anthropology and Humanism'', Vol. 37, No. 1, June 2012: 105–108. * *
What Has Socialism Ever Done For Women?
(with Julia Mead) ''Catalyst''. Vol. 2, No. 2, Summer 2018. 100-133

References

External links

* Kristen Ghodsee'
faculty page

Harvard University Open Scholar webpage

Column archive
at ''

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'' * Kristen Ghodsee reads from ''Lost in Transition: Ethnographies of Everyday Life After Communism'' o
The World
* Headscarves as Politics: Gender, Islam and Shifting Discourses of Social Justice in the Balkans,
public lecture
at Indiana University * Rachel Connelly and Kristen Ghodsee
Professor Mom: Finding Work-Family Balance Despite the Odds
in ''

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'', July 24, 2011 * Nina Ayoub, "The Red Riviera: Gender, Tourism, and Postsocialism on the Black Sea," in ''

'', December 2, 2005 * Kristen Ghodsee on th
Open Anthropology Cooperative
* Kristen Ghodsee reads
Basset Hounds in the Balkans
* Кристен Годси
Жертвите на комунизма и историческата амнезия в Източна Европа
novilevi.org, 18.12.2014 * Kristen Ghodsee
The Left Side of History: The Legacy of Bulgaria's Elena Lagadinova
''Foreign Affairs.com'' 29 April 2015 * * *

Interviews

* (Audio)
Sixth Bulgarian Sets Himself on Fire to Protest Poverty
" and interview with

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on The World. * (Audio) Kristen Ghodsee discusses nostalgia for communism in Bulgaria with Lisa Mullins on BBC/PRI'
''The World''
* (Audio) Kristen Ghodsee o
Nostalgia for Communism
on Northeast Public Radio * (Audio) Kristen Ghodsee discusses headscarves in Bulgaria with Lisa Mullins on BBC/PRI'
The World
* (Audio)
Sixth Fire Suicide in Bulgaria
" Interview on Voice of Russia (UK Edition), March 21, 2013. * (Video) Kristen Ghodsee discusse
The Red Riviera
with George Liston Seay on ''Dialogue'' * (Video) Kristen Ghodsee discusses communist mass women's organizations o
ILO TV
* (Print
Кристeн Годси: "Българските жени са приспособими, упорити и готови да поемат и най-големите предизвикателства"
* (Audio
New Podcast Features Dr. Kristen Ghodsee
- American Anthropological Association, January 24, 2014 * (Print

(Interview with Kristen Ghodsee) * (Print
The Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) interview
September 2014 * (Print
No Scrubs
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