Serguei Alex. Oushakine

Serguei Alex. Oushakine has studied history, political theory, gender, and anthropology in Russia, Canada, Hungary, and the US. Born and raised in Siberia, he received his degree of Kandidat of political science from St. Petersburg State University (1995). He was an assistant and then associate professor at the Altai State Technical University from 1995-2003.

In 2000, The Russian Academy of Sciences awarded him the Annual Award for Young Scholars, a national prize, for the best work in the field of social sciences.
Oushakine earned a PhD (with distinction) in anthropology at Columbia University in 2005, held a postdoctoral fellowship at the Harriman Institute at Columbia in 2005-2006, and joined the Princeton Department of Slavic Languages and Literature in 2006.

Oushakine’s current research examines transitional periods in Russia’s twentieth-century history and explores cultural manifestations of identity in Soviet and contemporary Russia.
Based on fieldwork in Siberia in 2001-3, his forthcoming book, The Patriotism of Despair: Communities of Loss in Contemporary Russia, documents how the social ties to and identification with the Soviet state became gradually replaced by negatively structured forms of patriotic attachment after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
His English-language articles have appeared in American Anthropologist; Cultural Anthropology; Public Culture; Ethnos; Theory, Culture & Society, and Europe-Asia Studies.He has published widely in Russian academic journals in the fields of philosophy, sociology, ethnology and politics, and he has edited two collections of essays in Russian: On Masculinity (O muzhe(N)stvennosti. Moscow, 2001) and the two-volume set Family Bonds: Models For Assembling (Semeinye uzy: modeli dlia sborki. Moscow, 2004).