Here is an interview I did on the Bulgarian self-immolations with Marco Werman for the NPR program, The World.

1 month ago - 7

Self-immolation as political protest

An interview with Voice of Russia on the current rash of self-immolations in Bulgaria

2 months ago - 4
Happy International Women’s Day!  A holiday celebrated all over the world, but not in the United States.  We only get mother’s day.  Apparently, women don’t count unless they are moms.

Happy International Women’s Day!  A holiday celebrated all over the world, but not in the United States.  We only get mother’s day.  Apparently, women don’t count unless they are moms.

Not sure where this was, but it is a very creative sign.

Not sure where this was, but it is a very creative sign.

Blackwashing History

A new column about the memory of communism and the Holocaust in Bulgaria

2 months ago - 2
21st Century malaise #1 

21st Century malaise #1 

The inaugural column for the Soyuz Postsocialist Studies network on the front page of Anthropology News. (I guess they liked the “Dialectic Lenins” from the Romanian Museum of the Peasant).http://www.anthropology-news.org/index.php/2013/01/22/inaugural-column-of-the-soyuz-postsocialist-studies-network/

The inaugural column for the Soyuz Postsocialist Studies network on the front page of Anthropology News. (I guess they liked the “Dialectic Lenins” from the Romanian Museum of the Peasant).

http://www.anthropology-news.org/index.php/2013/01/22/inaugural-column-of-the-soyuz-postsocialist-studies-network/

A new interview on the Cold War and women’s movements under communism in Bulgaria.

Subtle Censorships: Notes on Studying Bulgarian Women’s Lives After Communism
http://bingdev.binghamton.edu/jwh/?page_id=707
A new article on the politics of ethnography and history in communist countries.

Subtle Censorships: Notes on Studying Bulgarian Women’s Lives After Communism

http://bingdev.binghamton.edu/jwh/?page_id=707

A new article on the politics of ethnography and history in communist countries.