Patty Gray, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, University of Alaska Fairbanks

Patty A. Gray received her Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1998, and was a postdoctoral research fellow in the Siberia Project Group at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle, Germany, from 2000 to 2003. She is currently Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Her main geographical area of interest is the Russian Far East (Chukotka), but she has also done research in the central Volga region of Russia, and is currently developing a research project in Alaska. Her avenues of research include: 1) social movements, esp. indigenous activism in the context of paternalism and/or political repression; 2) the impact on local communities of state agricultural management policies, esp. the reorganization of Russia's collective reindeer farms; 3) humanitarian aid / development projects and NGOs, and their relationship to concepts of "civil society." Her book, The Predicament of Indigenous Activism in Chukotka: Post-Soviet Activism in the Russian Far North was just published by Cambridge University Press.

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