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Melissa L. Caldwell <lissa@ucsc.edu> University of California, Santa Cruz Poverty, Welfare, and International Aid Programs in the Russia and Eastern Europe Faith-Based Charities and Transnational Religious Development Programs Anthropology of Post/Socialist Societies Food Studies |
| Address: | Department of Anthropology 353 Social Sciences 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Santa Cruz, California 95064 United States |
| Primary Phone: | 831-459-3856 |
| List Affiliations: | Advisory Board Member for H-Soyuz |
| Interests: | Anthropology European History / Studies |
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Bio: PhD, Social Anthropology, Harvard University A.M., Social Anthropology, Harvard University M.A., Russian and East European Studies, Indiana University B.A., Russian and East European Studies, University of Tennessee Not by Bread Alone: Social Support in the New Russia, University of California Press, 2004 The Cultural Politics of Food and Eating, co-edited with James L. Watson, Blackwell Publishers, 2005 "A New Role for Religion in Russia's New Consumer Age: The Case of Moscow," Religion, State & Society, 2005, 33(1):43-58 "Domesticating the French Fry: McDonald's and Consumerism in Moscow," Journal of Consumer Culture, 2004, 4(1):5-26 "The Taste of Nationalism: Food Politics in Postsocialist Moscow," Ethnos, 2002, 67(3):285-294 Convenor of Soyuz (2004-2006) Board Member, Society for the Anthropology of Religion (2006-2008) |
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