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Melissa L. Caldwell Home  Directory Melissa L. Caldwell
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Title: |
Associate Professor of Anthropology |
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Email: |
lissa@ucsc.edu |
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Phone: |
(831) 459-3856 Office |
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Office: |
Social Sciences 1, 353 |
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Office Hours: |
Mon 9am-10:30am |
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| Education History | |
B.A., University of Tennessee
M.A., Indiana University
Ph.D., Harvard University |
| Courses Taught | |
ANTH 200A - Core Course
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| Research Focus | |
Teaching Specialties: anthropology of Europe and the former Soviet Union, postsocialism, food and society, poverty and welfare systems, identity politics, religion, memory and state, urban anthropology, social welfare.
Area of Research: Economic anthropology, poverty and welfare, anthropology of food, memory, socialism and postsocialism.
Area of Fieldwork: Russia, the former Soviet Union, and Eastern Europe. |
| Long Description | |
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Melissa Caldwell’s research interests, writing projects, and teaching experiences bring together the ethnography of postsocialist Europe with issues of economics, hunger and poverty, social welfare, and transnational aid programs. Her ethnographic fieldwork in an international, church-based food program in Moscow (1997-2002) chronicles the daily lives and experiences of the program’s clients, who are primarily elderly Muscovite pensioners and veterans, and their interactions with social services officials and domestic and foreign aid workers. In her other writing projects, Melissa Caldwell addresses related themes that have emerged from her research in Russia: the role of fast food and the emergence of nationalist-oriented food practices, culinary tourism, gardening and healthy foods, transnational religious movements, the politics of remembering and forgetting, and the experiences of black Africans in Moscow society. Her new research examines the significance of summer gardens, nature, and landscape. |
| Selected Publications | |
Not By Bread Alone: Social Support in the New Russia, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004.
The Cultural Politics of Food and Eating, Co-edited with James L. Watson. Blackwell Publishers, spring 2005.
“Domesticating the French Fry: McDonald’s and Consumerism in Moscow,” Journal of Consumer Culture 2004, 4(1):5-26.
"The Taste of Nationalism: Food Politics in Postsocialist Moscow," Ethnos 2002, 67(3):295-319. |
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