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Alaina Lemon

Name: Alaina Lemon

Title(s):

  • Associate Professor, Anthropology

Contact Information: 734.764.2333 , amlemon@umich.edu

Website: http://sitemaker.umich.edu/alainalemon

International Institute Affiliation(s):

  • CREES
  • CWPS
  • CICS

Department Affiliation(s):

  • Anthropology

Education Background: B.A., Anthropology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1987; M.A., Anthropology, University of Chicago, 1988; Ph.D., Anthropology, University of Chicago, 1996

World Area(s) of Study/Interest:

  • Russian and East European Studies

Related Countries:

  • Russia
  • Czech Republic

Research/Teaching Specialization: Ethnology, socio-cultural, Performance and language, historical narrative, racial and national ideologies, visual culture and visual anthropology. Russia, Romani (Gypsy) diaspora, post-Socialist states

Area/Int'l Course(s) Taught: Roma in Russia; Ethnographic Genres: Social and Cultural Identities in Russia; Ideologies of Language and Performance in Russia and East Europe; Gender and Sexuality in Russia; Language, Culture and Society in Russia/CIS; Anthropology of Performance; St. Petersburg Study Tour Abroad