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EKATERINA MAKAROVA

Department of Sociology 218 Randall Hall P.O. Box 400766 Charlottesville VA 22904-4766 (434) 982-2762 [email protected]

Education

1999 Ph.D., Sociology , UK Dissertation Title: “Paradoxes of development in Soviet and post-Soviet Central Asia: with special reference to the role of the mahalla in Uzbek cities.”

1986-1989 Institute of Ethnology and Social Anthropology, Russian Academy of Science, 3-year doctoral program in social anthropology

1979-1985 B.A., M.A., Social Geography, , (with high distinction)

Present Position

From Fall 2008 Associate , General Faculty Department of Sociology, University of Virginia

Awards, Grants, Fellowships and Honors

2017 Course Development grant for Pavilion Seminar on “Ideal Cities”

2017 Course Development Grant for “Research in European Studies”

2015 Award of $ 4 000 from President Sullivan’s office, University of Virginia, for my work on the undergraduate internship program

2014 Supplementary grant from the Jefferson Trust, University of Virginia, for development of the course “The Afterlives of Communism”

2012 Grant from the Jefferson Trust, University of Virginia, for developing the course “After Communism: The Remaking of Communist and Post-Communist Societies”

2006 Faculty Fellowship for Summer Research in the and Social Sciences

2005 Research grant in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Virginia

2004-2005 Sesquicentennial leave held at Center for Historical Studies,

2001 Grant from the Center on Religion and Democracy, University of Virginia, for developing course on the Sociology of Religion

1991-1992 Families, Social Mobility and Social and Economic Change: Britain and the Former USSR, (with Ray Pahl and Paul Thompson),; grant from British Academy and Economic and Social Research Council

1993-1995 Uzbek-Russian Interaction in Central Asia: The Oral History Approach; grant from Fondazione Feltrinelli (Italy)

1993-1996 Paradoxes of Development in Soviet and Post-Soviet Central Asia: With Special Reference to the Mahalla in Uzbek Cities, (Ph.D. research),; grant from Soros Foundation and Manchester University, UK

1990 University of Kent, Canterbury, UK, Summer School for Soviet Sociologists

Former Positions & Appointments

2002-2008 Assistant Professor, General Faculty, Department of Sociology, University of Virginia

1997-2002 Lecturer in Sociology, Department of Sociology, University of Virginia

1993-1996 Research Fellow, Department of Sociology, University of Manchester, UK

1989-1996 Researcher, Institute of Ethnology and Social Anthropology, Russian Academy of Sciences

1990 (July-Sept.) University of Kent, Canterbury, UK, Summer School for Soviet Sociologists

1992 (May-June) Visiting Professor, Loyola , Los Angeles

1994 (July-Aug.) Visiting Professor, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles

Major Interests

Urban sociology and anthropology, space and culture, sociology of consumption, sociology and anthropology of socialist and post-socialist societies, sociology of religion, social change.

Current research

The Changing Boundaries of Public and Private: Urban Space and Urban Culture in Postsocialist Cities

Teaching

University of Virginia (1997-present). Undergraduate: Ideal Cities, Sociology of Religion, Urban Sociology, Social Change, The Afterlives of Communism, Anthropology of Eastern Europe, Cities and Cultures, Sociology of Consumption, Sociology of the Everyday. Graduate: Research in European Studies, Sociology of Consumption, City and Modernity, Eastern European Societies (formerly Anthropology of Eastern Europe), Distinguished Majors Seminar. University of Manchester, UK (1993-1996). Undergraduate: Introduction to Social Anthropology, Introduction to Social Theory. Loyola Marymount University (1992, 1994). Undergraduate: Sociology of Religion and Religion in the Former Soviet Union.

Publications

“On Creating the Conditions of Sociability in the City,” Proceedings of the Beijing Forum, Beijing, 2013, pp. 451-474

2 “Postindustrialism, Gentrification, and Transformation of Urban Space in Contemporary Moscow” (in Russian), in Neprikosnovennyi Zapas: Debaty o Politike I Kul’ture, no.2 (70), 2010, pp. 35-53 [Cultural Heritage: on Politics and Culture]

(with K.Kumar) “The Portable Home: The Domestication of Public Space”, Sociological Theory, 26:4, December 2008, pp.324-343

“The Changing Boundaries of Public and Private: Urban Space and Urban Culture in Moscow” (in Russian), Project : Journal on Russian Architecture and Design, vol. 43, March 2007.

(with V.Agadjanian) “From Soviet modernization to Post-Soviet transformation: understanding marriage and fertility dynamics in Uzbekistan”, Development and Change, Vol. 34 No.3, 2003, pp.447-473.

(with K.Kumar) “An Interview with Jose Casanova”, in The Hedgehog Review, vol. 4, no. 2, 2002, pp.91-109

(with V. Koroteyeva) “Money and Social Connection in the Soviet and Post-Soviet Uzbek City,” in Central Asian Survey, Vol. 17 No. 4, 1998, pp. 579-597.

(with V. Koroteyeva) “The Assertion of Uzbek National Identity: Nativization or State-Building Process?” in T. Atabaki, J. O’Kane (eds.) Post-Soviet Central Asia, I.B. Tauris, London, New York, 1998, pp. 137-144

“The Ironies of Soviet Legacies in Post-Soviet Uzbekistan,” in Marco Buttino (ed.) Nationalism and Ethnic Conflicts in Eastern Europe, Torino, Italy (in Italian)

(with A. Ginsburg and V. Koroteyeva) “Community Structures in Uzbek Cities,” Etudes Orientale, Paris, 1997

Papers at National and International Conferences

“On Creating the Conditions of Sociability in the City.” Paper presented at the Beijing Forum (panel on Urbanization), Beijing, 1-3 November, 2013

“Gentrification and the Transformation of Urban Space in Contemporary Moscow”. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association for the Advancement of , Boston, November 12-15, 2009.

“Encountering the New Moscow: Walking the City: Streets as a Form of Memory”. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Southern Conference on Slavic Studies, Charlottesville, March 26-28, 2009.

Participant in two Roundtables: “New Past for the New Russia”, and “New Public Spaces in Moscow and St. Petersburg”. Annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, , November 20-23, 2008.

“Changing Spaces of Consumption and Sociability in Moscow”. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Southern Conference on Slavic Studies, Atlanta, March 2008.

“Sociability, Gentrification, and New Public Spaces in Moscow”. Paper presented at the Symposium Eurasian Cities: Between Metropolis and Frontier, Toronto, March 2008 (invited participant).

“Spaces of Change in Moscow”. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, New Orleans, November 2007.

“The New Spaces of Consumption in Moscow”. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, New York, August 2007.

“The Changing Boundaries of Public and Private: Urban Space and Urban Culture in Moscow”. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Washington, DC, November 2006.

3 “The New Urbanism in Moscow: The Redefinition of Public and Private Space”. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Montreal, August, 2006.

“Urban Space and Urban Culture in Contemporary Moscow”. Paper presented at the meeting of SOYUZ, Post- Communist Cultural Studies Group (Affiliate of the American Anthropological Association and the Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies), March 2006.

“The New Urbanism in Moscow: the Redefinition of Public and Private Space”. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies, Annual Meeting, April 2005.

“Soviet Modernization, Reinvention of Tradition and Market Reforms: Understanding Marriage and Fertility in Uzbekistan,” (with V. Agadjanian). Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Los Angeles, August 2001.

“Women and Development Choices in Central Asia”. Paper presented at the meeting of Southern Sociological Society, New Orleans, April 2000.

“The Mahalla, Civil Society and the Domestication of the State in Uzbekistan”. Paper presented at the annual conference of the Association for the Study of Nationalities, New York, April 1998.

“The Making of Uzbek National Identity: Women as the Epitome of Development Choices,” (with V. Koroteyeva). Paper presented at the conference Women in Central Asia: The Politics of Change, , New York, April 1998.

“Evaluating the Legacies of Colonial Rule in Contemporary Uzbekistan”. Paper presented at the First Annual Workshop on Central Asian Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, October, 1996.

“The Assertion of Uzbek National Identity: Nativization or the State-Building Process?” (with V. Koroteyeva). Paper presented at the V Conference of the European Seminar on Central Asian Studies, Copenhagen, August 1995.

“The Formation of Uzbek National Identity: The Oral History Approach”. Paper presented at the Conference on Oral History, Center on Oral History, Columbia University, New York, October 1994.

“Transition from What?: The Case of Uzbekistan”. Paper presented at the Conference on Culture and Society in Ex- Socialist Muslim Countries, Ankara, September 1994.

“The Relation Between Stages of State Policy and Stages of Individual Life: Nation-Building in Uzbekistan,” (with V. Koroteyeva. Paper presented at the XIII World Congress of Sociology, Bielefeld, July 1994.

“Uzbek-Russian Interaction in Central Asia: Construction of the Other”. Paper presented at the Founding Conference of the Arab Sociological Association, The Image of the Other, Hammamet, Tunisia, April 1993.

Public Lectures and Other Activities

Discussant at the panel Sustainable Pedagogies and Scholarship on Europe in the 21st century, at the International Conference of the Council for European Studies in Glasgow, July 13 2017

Participant in panel discussion, The Theatre of Protest, in conjunction with UVA Drama Department’s production of the play We are Pussy Riot, October 4, 2017

Invited presentation on the concept and challenges of public space, given to the City of Charlottesville commission, Place Design Task Force, April 20, 2017

Public Lecture, “Sociability, Consumption, and the New Public Spaces in Postsocialist Cities,” sponsored by the Russian and Post-Soviet Studies Program, and the Confucius Institute, of William and Mary, October 9, 2014

4 Discussant on two panels – “Post-Socialist Cities: Urban Spaces, representations, and Encounters,” and “The Idea of the Good City in Russian Urban Practice” at the annual meeting of the Association for Slavic, East-European and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES), a San Antonio, November 21, 2014

Round Table participant at the Berlin Wall Symposium, UVA,, 2014

Public lecture, “Reflections on the Public-Private Divide in Postsocialist Cities,” sponsored by the College of Architecture and Urban Studies and the School of Public and International Affairs, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, February 24, 2014

Discussant, panel on “Challenges of Inclusive Integration,” at the international conference “Taiwan Inclusive: Trends, Opportunities, and Challenges,” November 15-16, 2013, Miller Center, University of Virginia

Discussant on two panels - “Boundaries and Borders in Russian Cities Cities” and “Urban Walls and Facades: Post-Soviet Public Space” - at the annual meeting of the Association for Slavic, East-European and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES - formerly AAASS), New Orleans, November 2012

“New Spaces, New Publics in Contemporary Moscow”, paper presented at the “Russia ‘in 2020’” research seminar, UVA, April 6, 2012

Discussant at the panel on “Public and Private Spaces in Socialist and Post-Socialist Cities” at the annual meeting of the Association for Slavic, East-European and Eurasian Studies, November 2011.

Guest lecturer in ARAD/SARC 5300, Arts in Community / Community in the Arts, (Arts Administration/School of Architecture, UVA), January 2011

Guest Lecturer, Williams College, Williamstown, MA: “Ways of Knowing” and “Images and Society” (April 15-17, 2009)

Talk given at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture, UVA, “Urban Theory and the Question of Public/Private Boundaries”, March 13, 2009

Guest lecture presented for ARAD 330, The Arts in Community/Community in Arts class, UVA, January 2008.

Discussant at the panel on “Transformations in Post-Socialist Cities” at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, New Orleans, November 2007.

Public lecture given at the UVA’s School of Architecture, February 2007, “The Changing Boundaries of Public and Private: Urban Space and Urban Culture in Moscow”.

Talk at the UVA Anthropology Department’s colloquium, September 2006, “The New Dynamics of Urban Space in Contemporary Moscow”.

Invited participant, Workshop on Secularization, Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture, UVA, January 2006.

Discussant at the panel on “Ethnographies of Urban Transformation” at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Salt Lake City, November 2005.

Invited participant, The State of Social Memory Studies International Workshop, UVA, October 2005.

Regular participant and discussant, seminar on “Cities: Space, Society and History”, Shelby Cullom Davis Center, Princeton University, 2004-2005.

Invited presenter and discussant, Workshop on Home-Grown Models of Civil Society in the Muslim World, , 1999.

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Invited Speaker, Virginia Center for the Teaching of International Studies, Richmond, VA, October 1999

Invited Speaker, FBI Academy, Quantico, VA, “Problems of Post-Communist Transitions in Uzbekistan,” March 1999

Speaker, University of Virginia Panel “Russia’s Time of Troubles: Is There Any Way Out?” January 1998

Public lecture given at School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, March 1996, “The Ironies of the Soviet Legacies in Post-Soviet Uzbekistan”

Invited speaker, Istituto Universitario Europeo, Florence, “National Identity in Central Asia,” March 1995

Professional activities

Reviewer of research proposals for grants from the American Councils for International : ACTR/ACCELS, (Title VIII Combined Research and Language Training Program), November 2017

Reviewer for the Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship program (2014-2015; 2015-2016; 2016-2017)

Member, Center for Organizing Committee for a series of events planned for April 2016 on “Flight and Refuge: the European Crisis in Global Perspective” (since November 2015)

Judge at the Studio Review, School of Architecture (Prof. Sieweke’s studio, April 2014; Profs Esteve and Jull’s studio, May 2015; Prof. Van Lengen’ studio, April 2017)

Member of the think-tank on “Grassroots Initiatives and Urban Spaces”, Center for Global Inquiry and Innovation, UVA, Spring 2015

Co-organizer of the series of interdisciplinary research seminars “Russia ‘in 20-20’”, UVA, 2010 - 2013

Manuscript reviewer for Polity Press, Sage Publications, Wiley-Blackwell Publishers (2003-present).

Member of the Program Committee for the 2011 annual meeting of ASEES (Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies [formerly AAASS]), March 2011

Reviewer for the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH Collaborative Research grant administered by American Councils for International Education: ACTR/ACCELS and the National Council for Eurasian and East European Research: NCEEER), 2006, 2008; member of the final selection committee, title VIII programs, 2009

Reviewer for the Research Council (International Dissertation Research Fellowship competition), 2005- 2008.

Member of the Heldt Prize Committee, Association for Women in Slavic Studies (the committee selects the best publication in three categories: Best book in Slavic/Eastern European/Eurasian women's studies; Best article in Slavic/Eastern European/Eurasian women's studies; Best book by a woman in any area of Slavic/East European/Eurasian studies), 2006-2007.

Organizer of the panel “The Russian Revolutions of 1917 and 1991 in the Mirror of 1989-2009 for the interdisciplinary conference Approaching Revolutions, Center for German Studies, UVA, March 2010

Organizer of the panel “Borders, Boundaries and Consumption” at the AAASS (American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies) annual meeting, Washington, DC, November 2006.

6 Member, American Sociological Association, Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (formerly AAASS).

Departmental and University Service

Sociology Department:

Director of Diversity and Inclusion since Fall 2016 Search Committee for an adjunct position, May 2017

Organizer of a Sociology colloquium with Claudrena Harold on Nov. 30, 2017

Promotion Committee for Rose Buckelew (3rd-year review)

Co-organizer of the symposium, Diverse Disciplines, Inclusive Institutions: Rethinking Our Academic Agendas, supported by a DDI grant, March 15-16, 2018

Member of the Colloquium Committee, 2015-2016

Sponsor and supervisor of Visiting Scholar, Zhuldyz Galimzhanova, a PhD candidate, Eurasian National University, Kazakhstan, April-May 2015

Director of Undergraduate Studies, 2005-2015 Member of the Undergraduate Studies Committee, 1999-2004

Center for Russian and Eastern European Studies (CREES):

Organized visits by Dr. Olga Shevchenko (Williams College), 2006, 2011; Dr. Marci Shore (Yale), 2007; Dr. Genevieve Zubrzycki (), 2008, Dr. Alexander Zmeul (P-ARCH, Moscow), 2009; Dr. Svetlana Stephenson (London Metropolitan University, UK), 2011; Dr. Julia Twigg (VCU), 2011; Dr. Serguei Oushakine, (Princeton), 2012 Polish Lectures Fund Committee (2006-present) Member of CREES executive committee (2009-present) Co-Organizer of the Interdisciplinary Workshop “Rethinking Socialism,” University of Virginia (2000 - 2002)

University:

Member, ’s Academic Strategy Committee (since Fall 2017) Member (elected), Arts & Sciences Committee on Faculty Rules (since Fall 2016) Member, Promotion Committees: William Little (Media Studies, 6th-year review); David Edmunds (Global Studies, 6th- year review), 2017 Member, Committee on the Reappointment of the Associate Dean for Undergraduate Academic programs, Rachel Most (October-November 2016) Member, UVA Faculty Senate (since Fall 2016) Member, Faculty Recruitment, Retention, Retirement, & Welfare Committee of the Faculty Senate (since 2017) Member, Academic Affairs Committee of the Faculty Senate (2016-2017) Member, European Studies Implementation Committee (since Spring 2016) Member, Committee on the Reappointment of the Director of the Center for German Studies (April-June, 2013; December 2015-January 2016) Member, Arts &Sciences Undergraduate Curriculum Planning Committee (September 2014 – May 2016) Arts & Sciences representative (invited) at the School of Architecture 4th annual Vortex competition; faculty advisor to Architecture teams (January 2015) Member of Carrie Douglass's Sixth-Year ECE (Expectation of Continued Employment) Review Committee, Fall 2014 Member, Advisory Board for the Center for German Studies (October 2013 - present) Member, Harrison Undergraduate Research Award Committee, (2011 – present) 7 Member, European Studies Planning Committee, 2012-2014 Member, Advisory Committee for the Program in Social and political Thought, 2012-2014 Member, Committee for Enrollment Growth, 2011 Brown College, Faculty Fellow (1997-2013) Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture (2007-present) Lower Division Advising (1998-2004; 2011 - 2015) Member, Sociocultural Workshop (2008-2012) Member, Advisory Committee on the new Urban Studies minor (2004-2005) Member, Bankard seminar to consider the Global Culture and Commerce minor (2003-2004) Member, Special Lectures Committee, University of Virginia (2000 – 2003) Member, Interdisciplinary Workshop on Muslim Societies (2004-2006) OAAA Mentoring Program (2003-2004)

Graduate and Undergraduate Supervision:

PhD Dissertation Committees: Julia Barnes (Anthropology), reader Callum Ingram (Political Theory), reader, defended July 2015 Oscar Ox (History), reader, defended July 2015 Aidyn Mills (Anthropology), reader, defended December 2014 Yuliya Dudaronak (Sociology), reader, defended May 2014 Viktoryia Kalesnikava (Anthropolgy), reader John Lyles (Slavic), external reader, defended April 2011 Carey Sargent (Sociology), reader, defended April 2009 Tanya Omeltchenko (Sociology), reader, defended October 2010 Andrew Nelson (Anthropology), reader, defended March 2013; David Bridges (History), external reader, defended November 2008 Rachel Vanderhill (Politics), external reader, defended March 2009 Laura Hartman (Religious Studies), external reader, defended March 2008 Melinda Reidinger (Anthropology), defended June, 2006, reader; Frank Selin (Politics), external reader, defended 2002.

Reader for Comprehensive Examinations: Catalina Vallejo (Sociology of Culture), January 2015 Kara Fitzgibbon (Sociology of Religion), March 2014 Sam Richards (Sociology of Religion), November 2012 Mark Parker (Sociology of Culture), 2011 Niva Shooshy (Sociology of Culture), 2011 Daniel Finn (Sociology of Culture), 2010 Yuliya Dudaronak (Sociology of Culture), 2010 Ahrum Lee (Sociology of Culture), 2009 Ryan Gruters (Sociology of Religion), 2008 and 2009 Deborah Rexrode (Sociology of Religion), 2008 Eunryung Kang (Sociology of Religion), 2008 Jennifer Silva (Sociology of Culture), 2006 Glen Luckie (Sociology of Religion), 2000

MA Theses committees: Meredith Black (School of Architecture), 2017 reader Jaime Hartless (Sociology), 2012, reader Viktoryia Kalesnikava (Anthropolgy), 2010, reader Anne Castelvecchi (Sociology), 2010, reader Fan Mai (Sociology), 2009, chair Yuliya Dudaronak (Sociology), 2009, chair Peipei Xiang (Sociology), 2009, reader

8 Inna Faktorovich (Sociology), 2009, reader Bobbie Robertson (Sociology), 2008, reader Ben Snyder (Sociology), 2007, chair; Angela Bennett (Anthropology), 2006, reader Chris Haley (Anthropology), 2002, reader

Senior Honors Theses: John Devine (PST), 2018 Stefano Rumi (Sociology), 2018 Arcadia Rodriguez-Ruiz (SCPS), 2018 Zack Peak (PST), 2016 Folayemi Augusto (Sociology), 2013 Ryan Yowell (Urban and Environmental Planning), 2013 Alexander Maliwanki (Slavic), Fall 2012 Elizabeth Bowles (PST), 2012 Jennifer Kellett (Sociology), 2009 Christy Randall (Sociology), April 2009 Erin Henshaw (Sociology), 2007; Angela Schutte (Sociology), 2005; Sarah Hinger (PST), 2004; Lindsay Bunting (PST), 2002, Audra Teague (Slavic), 2001, Brian Ullman (PST), 2000

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