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Alaina Lemon
Alaina Lemon is an associate professor in the Department of Anthropology. She is a linguistic
and socio-cultural anthropologist who works in Russia and the CIS. Her research links discourse
and performance to state bureaucracies, exchange practices, and institutions for cultural
production and for the production of memory. Her current project investigates how criteria for
and claims to discursive values such as "transparency/opacity" or "sincerity/dissimulation" both
presuppose and produce social hierarchies. Crucial to her research are transformations and
continuities of power and person--in her most recent publications, as they involve racialized or
gendered categories in formerly socialist states. Through the Center for Russian and East
European Studies (CREES), she works closely with colleagues across disciplines such as History,
Literary Criticism, Slavic Studies, and Sociology. Lemon's ethnographic work draws upon audio
and video recording of real-time interaction, archival research, and media texts.
Selected Publications:
2000 Between Two Fires: Gypsy Performance and Romani Memory from Pushkin to Post-
Socialism, Duke University Press.
2000 "Talking Transit and Spectating Transition: The Moscow Metro," in Altering States:
Anthropology in Transition, eds. Daphne Berdahl, Matti Bunzl, and Martha Lampland.
University of Michigan Press.
1998 "Your Eyes are Green Like Dollars: Counterfeit Cash, National Substance, and Currency
Apartheid in 1990s' Russia," in Cultural Anthropology 13/1: 22-55.
Documentary:
1994 T'an Bakhtale! : Roma in Russia, in Russian and Romani with English subtitles, Distributor:
Documentary Educational Resources.
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