Although I am an academic, I very much consider myself a writer as well. In addition to my books and peer-reviewed journal articles, I write in a wide variety of genres.
Recent articles:
“A Year in Reading: Kristen R. Ghodsee,” The Millions, December 6, 2023
“Marxism and Mistletoe: A Holiday Lift of Books for the Lefties in Your Life,” LitHub.com, December 6, 2023
“Living Communally Can Make Us Less Lonely,” The Nation, June 28, 2023
“Gender Oppression isn’t inherent in human nature,” Jacobin Magazine, June 23, 2023
“The Ukrainian Utopia that almost Existed,” The Washington Post, June 23, 2023
"To Smash the Patriarchy, We Need to Get Specific About What It Means," Jacobin Magazine, June 9, 2023
“For Albania, Capitalism’s Promise of Freedom Soon Turned Sour,” Jacobin Magazine, November 11, 2021
“Why Won't Eastern Europeans Get Vaccinated?,” with Mitchell A. Orenstein, Project Syndicate, November 8, 2021, also in Russian, German, and Arabic
“When the women’s movement went global,” Le Monde Diplomatique English, July 1, 2021
“Les « grands-mères rouges » du mouvement international des femmes,” Le Monde Diplomatique, June 30, 2021; [In Spanish] Las ‘abuelas rojas’ del movimiento internacional de las mujeres, Le Monde Diplomatique en Español, July 2021, also in Italian.
“Freeman Dyson Refused to Let Go of His Optimism About the World,” Jacobin Magazine, December 15, 2020
“Blueprint for Feminism,” Jewish Currents, October 14, 2020
“Debatte: Mitgefühl nicht verschenken,” TAZ, May 22, 2020
"My daughter's abandoned prom dress," Ms. Magazine, May 16, 2020
“The Most Famous Feminist You’ve Never Heard Of,” Ms. Magazine, March 29, 2020
"How the socialist behind paid child care and parental leave was erased from women's history," NBC Think, March 7, 2020
“Women’s Unpaid Labor is Worth $10,900,000,000,000” with Gus Wezerek, New York Times, March 5, 2020
"Socialists have long fought for women's rights," Jacobin, Febraury 28, 2020
“Faculty Forum: The Tyranny of the Immediate,” Academe, Winter 2020
“Letter: EBRD must own up to the failure of its policies,” with Mitchell A. Orenstein, Financial Times, December 5, 2019
"What the US can learn from women in the Soviet workforce," Quartz, November 13, 2019
"Revolutions for Whom?" Project Syndicate, with Mitchell A. Orenstein, November 2, 2019 [Translated into Arabic, Chinese, German, Russian, Macedonian, and Spanish]
Fake It Before, During, and After You Make It, Jacobin, October 8, 2019
“La guerra de orgasmos la ganó Alemania oriental,” [published excerpt] El País, October 6, 2019
How Banning Abortion Will Transform America, Project Syndicate, with Maria Bucur, May 15, 2019
Regime Change Breeds Demagogues, The New Republic, March 11, 2019
- как смена режима порождает авторитарных правителей [Russian]
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Cum schimbarea regimurilor favorizează ascensiunea autoritarismului [Romanian]
Have you wished your mother a Happy International Women’s Day yet? New York Times, March 8, 2019
An American Tale: How Cold War Officialdom Made the World Safe for Propaganda, The Baffler, No. 44, March 2019
- “El cuento de Estados Unidos,” [Spanish] Contexto, October 23, 2019
Gendered impacts of privatisation and austerity in eastern Europe, The Lancet, February 9, 2019
What the socialist Kama Sutra tells us about sex behind the Iron Curtain, Washington Post, November 20, 2018
Sex and money: the two things always linked in women’s lives, inews.co.uk, November 20, 2018
What Has Socialism Ever Done for Women? (with Julia Mead) Catalyst, Vol 2. No. 2, 2018
Crashing the Party: The radical legacy of a Soviet-era feminist,World Policy Journal, No, 2, Summer 2018
Paranoia, Conspiracy Theories, and Democratic Decay: Reflections on the Political Commentaries of Ivan Krastev, Cultural Anthropology, April 25, 2018
Anti-anti-communism, Aeon.co, March 22, 2018 (with S. Sehon)
- Анти-антикоммунизм [Russian]
Finland's Red Women, Jacobin, January 10, 2018
- Красные женщины Финляндии [Russian]
Exonerando a los fascistas en la Europa del Este, Nuestra Historia, No. 4, 2017.
Partisanka, Farewell, Transitions Online, December 11, 2017
The Youngest Partisan, Jacobin, December 1, 2017
Why Women Had Better Sex Under Socialism, New York Times, Sunday Review, August 12, 2017
- 社会主义国家女性更“性”福 [Chinese]
- Warum DDR-Frauen den besseren Sex hatten [German]
- Почему при социализме секс у женщин был лучше [Russian]
The Missing War, Anthropology and Humanism, 42(1) 2017: 36-38
Mi hija y el horror de Donald Trump, Engarce (Mexico), Año 2, No. 4 2017: 32-34
Einstein's Pacifism: A Conversation with Wolfram Wette, The Institute Letter, Fall 2015
Sonya Michel: Mentor and Mensch, (with Maria Bucur-Deckard) Social Politics, 22(3) 2015: 276-282
Fantasies of Feminist History in Eastern Europe," with Adriana Zaharijević, Eurozine.com, July 31, 2015
The Left Side of History: The Legacy of Bulgaria's Elena Lagadinova, ForeignAffairs.com, April 29, 2015
Monuments and Memory Wars in Hungary, Muftah.org, November 10, 2014
Victims of Communism and Historical Amnesia in Eastern Europe, Muftah.org, September 15, 2014
Women's Rights and the Cold War, Vagabond Magazine, September 2014. (pdf)
Photoessay: A Tale of Two Protests, Reviews & Critical Commentary, March 26, 2014
Who was Frank Thompson? Vagabond Magazine, November 2013.
Revisiting 1989: The Specter Still Haunts, Dissent Magazine, Spring 2012
Subtle Censorships: Notes on Studying Bulgarian Women's Lives Under Communism, Journal of Women's History: Beyond the Page, Fall 2012
Rescuing Tolstoy, International Herald Tribune, 2011
Crying Dyson, an interview with Professor Freeman Dyson for Geek Magazine in 2007
Guest Blog posts:
Intersectional before it was cool, Duke University Press blog (February 12, 2019)
Why I like Typewriters, Savage Minds blog, (January 30, 2015)
A Political Suicide and the Return of the Greek Left, Savage Minds blog (January 26, 2015)
"Ethnographers as Writers: Write First Drafts in One Go," Savage Minds blog (January 23, 2015)
"The Ethnographic Book Trailer?" Savage Minds blog (January 21, 2015)
"Ethnographers as Writers: Consider Endnotes," Savage Minds blog, (January 19, 215)
"Ethnographers as Writers: Theory and Data Part II, " Savage Minds blog, (January 16, 2015)
"Ethnographers as Writers: Theory and Data Part I," Savage Minds blog, (January 14, 2015)
"Ethnographers as Writers: Getting Started" Savage Minds blog (January 11, 2015)
"A Death in the Field," Savage Minds blog (January 8, 2015)
"Ethnographers as Writers: A light-hearted introduction to Academese" Savage Minds blog (January 4, 2015)
"Ethnographers as Writers: An Introduction" Savage Minds blog (January 1, 2015)
"My Ten Steps for Writing a Book" Savage Minds blog (February 24, 2014)
"Writing a Book in Ten Steps," ASEEES Blog, (April 14, 2014)
The Ukraine Crisis: Rebooting Russia, guest post on Foreign Policy In Focus, Focal Points Blog, (March 10, 2014)
"Wanted: The Academic Equivalent of the “Pretty Girl Rock”" The Professor is In blog, (October 7, 2011)
"Tenure Tracks and Ticking Clocks" Women and Family Researchers Network blog, (August 22, 2011)