Laura Adams
Lecturer on Sociology
Biographical Note
Laura got her Ph.D. in sociology from UC Berkeley. Her research has focused on issues of culture and the performing arts, state-society relations, and the politics of ethnic and national identity in post-Soviet Central Asia. Her book The Spectacular State: Culture and National Identity in Uzbekistan is forthcoming with Duke University Press. She has published papers on theater, globalization of culture, and qualitative methodology. Her current research explores the utility of different theoretical lenses (such as postcolonialism, authoritarianism, postsocialism, globalization, etc.) in understanding contemporary social change in Central Asia.
07/14/2009
Courses Offered This Academic Year
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Sociology 134 ( Fall 2009 ) |
Theories of Power and Postcommunist Societies | Catalog #0041 |
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