Zsuzsa Gille

Zsuzsa Gille is Professor of Sociology and Director of Global Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is author of Paprika, Foie Gras, and Red Mud: The Politics of Materiality in the European Union (2016 Indiana University Press), From the Cult of Waste to the Trash Heap of History: The Politics of Waste in Socialist and Postsocialist Hungary, co-editor of Post-Communist Nostalgia with Maria Todorova (Berghahn Press 2010), co-editor of the forthcoming book The Socialist Good Life: Desire, Development, and Standards of Living in Eastern Europe, and co-author of Global Ethnography: Forces, Connections and Imaginations in a Postmodern World (University of California Press, 2000). She was the special guest editor of Slavic Review’s thematic cluster on Nature, Culture, Power (2009). She edited a critical debate forum on the pages of Slavic Review on the Eastern European response to the 2015 migration crisis. She served on the Board of the American Association for Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) and served as Chair of the Transnational and Global Sociology Section of American Sociological Association.