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Dr. Zsuzsa Gille

Sociology
Russian, East European, and Eurasian
Associate Professor of LAS Global Studies
Associate Professor of Geography

Contact Information

Education

Ph.D., University of California, Santa Cruz, 1999

BA, Budapest University of Economics, Sociology and Economics

MA, University of California, Santa Cruz, Sociology

Countries of Study

Hungary, Eastern Europe, European Union

Courses Taught

  • Global Ethnographies
  • Postsocialism (SOC 366)
  • SOC 447 Environmental Sociology
  • European Identities (SOC 396)
  • REES 590: Individual Study or Research
  • REES 599: Thesis Research

Research / Training Specializations

environment, food policies, global inequalities, globalization, European identity, Europeanization, cultural studies, transnational studies

Distinctions / Awards

Book Award 2008. American Association for the Study of Slavic Societies. Davis Prize, honorable mention for From the Cult of Waste to the Trash Heap of History: The Politics of Waste in Socialist and Postsocialist Hungary.

Publications

Books

  • Post-Communist Nostalgia. Ed. Zsuzsa Gille and Maria Todorova. New York: Berghahn Press, 2009.
  • Gille, Zsuzsa. From the Cult of Waste to the Trash Heap of History: The Politics of Waste in Socialist and Postsocialist Hungary. Indiana University Press, 2007.
  • Gille, Zsuzsa, Michael Burawoy , Joseph A. Blum, Sheba George, Teresa Gowan, Lynne Haney, Maren Klawiter, Steven H. Lopez, Sean O. Riain, and Millie Thayer. Global Ethnography: Forces, Connections and Imaginations in a Postmodern World. . Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2000.

Journal Articles

  • Gille, Zsuzsa. "From Nature as Proxy to Nature as Actor." Slavic Review 68.1 (2009):
  • Gille, Zsuzsa. "Europeanising hungarian waste policies: Progress or regression?." Environmental Politics 13.1 (2004): 114-+.