Julie Hemment

Professor of Anthropology (Leave FA24-Sabbatical SP25)

Faculty
Julie Hemment
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Location
Machmer 206

Research Interests

Russia, post-socialism, gender and transition, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and global civil society, feminist anthropology, Participatory Action Research Methodology and public anthropology

Professional Biography

Julie Hemment is an anthropologist and ethnographer who works in postsocialist Russia. Her research interests include gender, NGOs, youth and civil society and feminist, participatory and collaborative methodologies.  Her two books (Empowering Women in Russia: Aid, NGOs and Activism and Youth Politics in Putin’s Russia: Producing Patriots and Entrepreneurs) result from the ethnographic projects she’s enacted in collaboration with Russian feminist scholar-activists. Her most recent research and writing projects explore the topic of satire in US-Russian political communication.

Publications

Books:

  • 2015 Youth Politics in Putin’s Russia: Producing Patriots and Entrepreneurs. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press
  • 2007a Empowering Women in Russia: Activism, Aid and NGOs. New Anthropologies of Europe. Daphne Berdahl, Matti Bunzl and Michael Herzfeld, series editors. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press

Education

  • Ph.D. 2000 Cornell University, Anthropology
  • M.A. 1997 Cornell University, Anthropology (Women’s Studies Minor)
  • B.A. 1990 University of Cambridge, Social and Political Science