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

Publications:

• "Without a 'Concept'?: Race as a Discursive Practice". 2002. (Refereed Journal Article)
• "'Dealing Emotional Blow': Realism and Verbal 'Terror' at the Russian State Theatrical Academy". 2004. (Refereed Journal Article)
• "African Diaspora in Eurasia". 2002. (Refereed Journal Article)
• "Telling Gypsy Exile: Pushkin, India, and Romani Diaspora". 2002. (Book Chapter)
• "'Form' and 'Function' in Soviet Stage Romani: Modeling Metapragmatics through Performance Institutions". 2002. (Refereed Journal Article)
• "Russia: Politics of Performance". 2001. (Book Chapter)
• Between Two Fires: Gypsy Performance and Romani Memory from Pushkin to Postcommunism. 2000. (Authored Book)
• "Talking Transit and Spectating Transition: The Moscow Metro". 2000. (Book Chapter)