Jeremy Morris (born 1974) is a British

ethnographer Ethnography is a branch of anthropology and the systematic study of individual cultures. It explores cultural phenomena from the point of view of the subject of the study. Ethnography is also a type of social research that involves examining ...

and political anthropologist specializing on

Russia Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia. It is the list of countries and dependencies by area, largest country in the world, and extends across Time in Russia, eleven time zones, sharing Borders ...

and the

former Soviet Union The post-Soviet states, also referred to as the former Soviet Union or the former Soviet republics, are the independent sovereign states that emerged/re-emerged from the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. Prior to their independence, they ...

. He is Professor in Russian and Global Studies at

Aarhus University Aarhus University (, abbreviated AU) is a public research university. Its main campus is located in Aarhus, Denmark. It is the second largest and second oldest university in Denmark. The university is part of the Coimbra Group, the Guild, and Ut ...

, Denmark. Formerly he was the Co-Director of the Centre for Russian, European and Eurasian Studies at the

University of Birmingham The University of Birmingham (informally Birmingham University) is a Public university, public research university in Birmingham, England. It received its royal charter in 1900 as a successor to Queen's College, Birmingham (founded in 1825 as ...

. He received his

DPhil A Doctor of Philosophy (PhD, DPhil; or ) is a terminal degree that usually denotes the highest level of academic achievement in a given discipline and is awarded following a course of graduate study and original research. The name of the deg ...

in Russian Studies at the

University of Sussex The University of Sussex is a public university, public research university, research university located in Falmer, East Sussex, England. It lies mostly within the city boundaries of Brighton and Hove. Its large campus site is surrounded by the ...

. His areas of research interest include informal economy, class, precarity and

postsocialism Postsocialism is the academic study of states after the fall or decline of socialism, especially in Eastern Europe and Asia. The "socialism" in postsocialism is not based on a Marxist conception of socialism but rather, especially in the Eastern ...

more generally. In an interview with ''

The Moscow Times ''The Moscow Times'' (''MT'') is an Amsterdam-based independent English-language and Russian-language online newspaper. It was in print in Russia from 1992 until 2017 and was distributed free of charge at places frequented by English-speaking to ...

'' in 2025, in emerged that Morris was one of the few Western scholars to have continued research fieldwork in Russia since the invasion of Ukraine in 2022. The war in Ukraine also prompted him to repeatedly criticize coverage of Russia which relied on public opinion surveys, and journalists who resorted to reductionist stereotyping of Russians. Morris also criticized the political naivete of some of the Russian political opposition in exile and was among those who predicted that the war in Ukraine would lead to Russia becoming more like North Korea.

Books

Monographs

* 2016 ''Everyday Post-Socialism: Working-Class Communities in the Russian Margins''. London: Palgrave. * 2025 ''Everyday Politics in Russia: From Resentment to Resistance''. London: Bloomsbury.

Edited volumes

* 2014 (with Abel Polese) ''The Informal Post-Socialist Economy: Embedded Practices and Livelihoods''. Basingstoke: Routledge. * 2015 (with Abel Polese) ''Informal Economies in Post-Socialist Spaces: Practices, Institutions and Networks''. London: Palgrave. * 2015 (with Natalya Rulyova and Vlad Strukov) ''New Media in New Europe-Asia''. Basingstoke: Routledge. * 2018 (with Abel Polese, Emilia Pawlusz and Oleksandra Seliverstova) ''Identity and Nation Building in Everyday Post-Socialist Life''. London: Routledge. * 2018 (with Abel Polese, Lela Rakhviashvili Borbala Kovacs) ''Post-socialist Informalities: Power, Agency and the Construction of Extra-legalities from Bosnia to China'', London: Routledge. * 2018 (with Abel Polese, Oleksandra Seliverstova Emilia Pawlusz) ''Informal Nationalism after Communism: The Everyday Construction of Post-Socialist Identities''. London: Palgrave.

References

External links

* Morris
Postsocialism blog
{{DEFAULTSORT:Morris, Jeremy Academic staff of Aarhus University Academics of the University of Birmingham Alumni of the University of Sussex British ethnographers Russian studies scholars 1974 births Living people