Gerald Creed

(Ph D CUNY, 1992; Assoc Prof) Agrarian political economy, rural identity, family and community, ritual; Eastern Europe

Gerald Creed is a specialist on agrarian political economy, ritual and identity in Eastern Europe. He has been conducting research in Bulgaria since 1987 examining the impact of collectivization, socialist agrarian reforms and subsequent privatization efforts on village household economies. This research is synthesized in his book Domesticating Revolution: From Socialist Reform to Ambivalent Transition in a Bulgarian Village (Penn State Press, 1998) which won the 1998 Book Award from the Bulgarian Studies Association. Prior work examined the relationship between industrialization and agriculture under socialism (American Ethnologist 1995) and how the threat of repeasantization has driven many Bulgarian villagers to support the Socialist Party in free elections since 1989 (Slavic Review 1995). He has also edited an interdisciplinary collection of essays with English Professor Barbara Ching on rural identity and the politics of place cross-culturally entitled Knowing Your Place: Rural Identity and Cultural Hierarchy (Routledge, 1997), co-authored a piece with Janine Wedel on foreign aid in post-communist eastern Europe (Human Organization 1999), and most recently, completed a review of anthropological literature on "domestic economies" (Annual Review of Anthropology, 2000). Prof Creed has recently received fellowships from the Howard Foundation and the Agrarian Studies Program at Yale University for research duing the 2000-2001 year on agrarian rituals and the notion of community.

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