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Department
Anthropology
Secondary Title
Director of Graduate Studies
Phone
313-577-2935
Fax
313-577-5859
Office
Faculty Administration Building #3017
656 W. Kirby, Detroit, MI 48202
Education
- Ph.D. Social Anthropology, Harvard University
- M.A. Cultural Anthropology, Seoul National University
- B.A. Anthropology, Seoul National University
News mentions
Selected publications
Books
- 2019. Balkan Blues: Consumer Politics after State Socialism. Indiana University Press
- 2014. Ethical Eating in the Postsocialist and Socialist World (co-edited with Jakob A. Klein and Melissa L. Caldwell), University of California Press
Peer-reviewed articles (selected)
- 2023 “Re-centering Race in Emancipatory Entrepreneurship: Black Female Founders, Money, and Meaning in a Detroit-based Incubator Program” (with Shuang Frost, Marlo Rencher, and Dawn Batts). Journal of Business Anthropology vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 54-78
- 2023 “Responsible Driving in the Age of Smartphones: Applied Research for Improving Car and Road Safety in the Motor City” (with Andrea Sankar and 10 student researchers. Human Organization vol. 82, no. 4, pp. 382-393
- 2023 “Beyond Methods: a model for teaching theory in applied anthropology” (with Lauren Hayes). Annals of Anthropological Practice vol. 47, no. 1. pp. 1-15
- 2016. “Re-creating Economic and Cultural Values in Bulgaria’s Wine Industry: From an Economy of Quantity to an Economy of Quality?” Economic Anthropology, vol. 3, no. 2. pp. 280-292
- 2014. “(Re)-Establishing the Normal through “Alternative” Food Provisioning: Insights from Postsocialist Bulgaria and Postindustrial Detroit.” Gastronomica: Journal of Critical Food Studies, vol. 14, no. 4, pp. 52-59
- 2014. “Tasting and Judging the Unknown Terroir of the Bulgarian Wine: The Political Economy of Sensory Experience.” Food and Foodways, vol. 22, no. 1, pp. 24-47
- 2014. “An Edible Moral Economy in the Motor City: Food Politics and Urban Governance in Detroit” (with Andrew Newman). Gastronomica: Journal of Critical Food Studies, vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 22-31
- 2012 “Experiencing the ‘West’ through the ‘East’ in the Margins of Europe: Chinese Food Consumption Practices in Postsocialist Bulgaria.” Food, Culture, and Society, vol. 15, no. 4, pp. 579-598 [reprinted in Kwang-ok Kim ed., Tasteful Trends: Identity, Power and the Mobility of East Asian Food. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2015, pp. 150-169]
Peer-reviewed book chapters (selected)
- 2020. "Good Food in a Racist System: Competing Moral Economies in Detroit" (with Andrew Newman). in Black Food Matters: Racial Justice in the Wake of Food Justice, eds. Hanna Garth and Ashante M. Reese. University of Minnesota Press. pp. 131-157
- 2018. “The Meanings and Practices of ‘Consumer Activism’ in Postsocialist Bulgaria,” In Approaching Consumer Culture: Global Flows and Local Contexts, ed. Evgenia Blagoeva-Krasteva. Springer Publishers. pp. 131-146
- 2016. “Global Belonging and Social Trust: Food Provisioning and Foodways in Postsocialist Societies.” In Handbook in Food and Anthropology, eds. James L. Watson and Jakob A. Klein, Bloomsbury Publishers. pp. 289-307
- 2014. “Ambivalent Consumers and the Limits of Certification: Organic Foods in Postsocialist Bulgaria.” In Ethical Eating in the Postsocialist and Socialist World, eds. Yuson Jung, Jakob A. Klein, Melissa L. Caldwell, University of California Press. pp. 93-115
- 2013. “Traces of the Past: Cultural Patrimony and the Bureaucratization of Wine.” In Wine and Culture: From Vineyard to Glass, eds. Rachel Black and Robert Ulin, Bloomsbury Publishers. pp. 161-178
Research Description
consumption, globalization, food and culture, economic anthropology, development, anthropology of the state, socialism/postsocialism, transnational governance and economic citizenship; anthropology of Europe, Eastern Europe and the European Union, Bulgaria/the Balkans; comparative studies between Eastern Europe and East Asia (especially North Korea)