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(Ph D CUNY, 1992; Assoc Prof) Agrarian political economy, rural identity, family and community, ritual; Eastern Europe (gcreed@hunter.cuny.edu) (on leave 2000-01)
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. He will be on leave until September 2001.
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