In August 2003, I received my PhD in sociology at the University of Chicago.

Dissertation: "Social Relations and Post-Soviet Society: Russian Capitalism Embedded"
    Committee: William Parish; Saskia Sassen; Andreas Glaeser
     Read the abstract (html).


My dissertation research involved workplace ethnography in Novosibirsk, Russia  (in western Siberia). For pictures of Novosibirsk, click here.

Recent articles include:

• "Novosibirsk: The Globalization of Siberia" forthcoming in Russian Transformations, ed. Leo McCann, Curzon Press
• "Strategies of Daily Life: Social Capital and the Informal Economy in Russia," Sociological Imagination, v 38: 3, p 166-189

Most recently I worked as Preceptor for the Master of Arts Program in the Social Sciences (MAPSS) at the University of Chicago, where I advised masters students in researching and writing MA theses.

I am currently on the academic job market in sociology. My areas of expertise include economic sociology, globalization, urban sociology and ethnography. Read my C.V. here (html) or download the C.V. here (PDF format).

• American Sociological Association(Economic Sociology Section, Community and Urban Section)
• ARNOVA
• AAASS