Dace Dzenovska

Dace Dzenovska  

Associate Professor in the Anthropology of Migration

Affiliation: School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography; Centre on Migration, Policy, and Society 
Expert in: Mobilities, Emigration and depopulation, Citizenship, Diaspora, Post-Soviet capitalism; European integration
Geographic focus: Eastern Europe

Dace Dzenovska holds doctoral and master’s degrees in social cultural anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley, as well as an interdisciplinary master’s degree in humanities and social thought from New York University. She specializes in political anthropology, focusing in particular on three areas:

1.  the geopolitics of mobility and migration;
2. forms of statehood, sovereignty, and capitalism in post-Cold War Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union; and,
3. (post)socialism as a critical lens for analysis of “late liberalism” and corresponding knowledge practices in anthropology.

Dace Dzenovska is currently leading an ERC research project on the emptying towns and villages in Eastern Europe: https://emptiness.eu/