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Dr. Jeanne Féaux de la Croix

Areas of Expertise and Interest

Political and Environmental Anthropology, Anthropologies of the Future, Anthropology of Work and Non-Governmental Organisations, Well-being and Ageing, Knowledge and Development Studies, Sustainability, Human Geography, Post-Socialism, Soviet History, Central Asia.

Academic Qualifications

2005-2010	PhD in Social Anthropology, University of St. Andrews Thesis on ‘Moral Geographies in Kyrgyzstan: how dams, pastures and holy sites matter in striving for the good life’
2004-2005	Distinction in MSc Social Anthropology, University of Oxford.
1999-2003	First Class MA degree in History, University of Edinburgh.

Professional Experience

2011	Peer reviewer for Central Asian Survey and Ethnos journal.
2011	External Examiner for Senior Diploma Theses, Department of Anthropology, University of Central Asia.
2010-11	Co-founder of Central Eurasia Media and Scholars Initiative The initiative aims to foster better working relations between media and scholars in Central Asia. Inaugural meeting at Central Eurasian Scholars Society in 2010, roundtable in 2011 with European and Central Asian scholars, the BBC and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. http://www.facebook.com/pages/Central-Eurasia-Scholars-and-Media-Initiative/175815792434009
2009	Joint organizer of postgraduate symposium and careers workshop Hosted for Central Asianists by the University of St. Andrews.
2009-2012	Conceptualizing and organising a research project and text book In collaboration with international scholars on everyday life in the late Soviet period and the role of 'Sovietness' today, funded by the Soros Open Society Institute (ReSET) to produce individual research and a university course reader.
2007-2010	Participation in 'Building Anthropology in Eurasia' Collaborative research and teaching programme in the framework of the ‘Eurasian Regional Seminar on Excellence in Teaching and Research’ (ReSET) funded by the Open Society Institute.
2006-2007	Associate Professor (part-time), American University of Central Asia.
2005-2009	Anthropology Tutor, University of St. Andrews.

Selected Scholarships and Awards

2009	David Riches Medal for Postgraduate Research
2005-2008	Carnegie Research Fellow
2005-2008	St. Andrews Postgraduate Scholarship

Selected Presentations

2011-2012	Invited lectures at Humboldt University Berlin, University of Central Asia, American University Bishkek, Bishkek Humanities University, University of St. Andrews, EHESS Paris.
2011	‘Summer pastures and hydro-power: Imagining the State and Belonging in Kyrgyzstan’, Conference on ‘Transforming states: Local relations, interactions and social security’, Max-Planck-Institute of Social Anthropology, Halle.
2011	‘The influence of young people as NGO workers in Kyrgyzstan.’ Conference of Deutsche Arbeitsgemeinschaft Vorderer Orient, Berlin.
2011	‘Development talk in Kyrgyzstan: from accounting for nomads to assessing pasture degradation.’ European Society of Central Asia Studies conference, Cambridge.
2010	‘Summer pastures and hydro-power in Kyrgyzstan: resources between paradise and state capture’. Central Eurasia Studies Society Conference, Michigan.
2009	‘The Source of Light and Loss: Moral Geographies of Damming the Naryn River’. European Society of Central Asia Studies conference, Budapest.
2009	‘The Soviet Other: the Role of the Past for Social Scientists and Citizens of Central Asia’. Postgraduate symposium on Central Asian Visions of the Other, University of Leeds.

Professional Memberships

Association of Social Anthropologists, European Association of Social Anthropologists,
American Anthropological Association, Central Eurasian Studies Network,
European Society for Central Asia Studies.

Languages

Native speaker of English and German, fluent written and spoken French, fluent spoken Kyrgyz and Russian, good reading and writing in Kyrgyz and Russian.

Publications

Selected Publications

In preparation for 2012	co-editing a journal special issue on 'Ethnographies of Belonging and Futures in Kyrgyzstan' with John Schoeberlein.
In preparation for 2012	Summer Pastures and Dams: Ways of Imagining the State and Belonging in Kyrgyzstan. In: journal special issue on ‘Transforming states: Local relations, interactions and social security’, edited by Tatjana Thelen, Larissa Vetters and Keebet v. Benda-Beckmann.
2011	Moving metaphors we live by: water and flow in the social sciences and around hydro-electric dams in Kyrgyzstan. Central Asian Survey 30:4, pp. 487-502.
2010	Moral Geographies in Kyrgyzstan: how pastures, dams and holy sites matter in striving for a good life. PhD thesis: University of St. Andrews.
2010	Building Dams in Central Asia: sacred products of the Soviet and post-Soviet state? Anthropology News 51 (2), 6-7.
2010	'Jailoo, Mazar jana GEStin kandai bailanishi bar? (What are the connections between summer pastures, pilgrimage sites and hydro-dams?) In: Aitpaeva, G., and Egemberdiva, A., eds., Jalal-Abaddagy yiyk jerler jana el daanyshmandygy (Holy Sites and Folk Wisdom of Jalal-Abad Province), pp. 436-455.

Reviews

2011

Review of Jacquesson, Svetlana. Pastoréalismes: anthropologie historique des processus d’intégration chez les Kirghiz du Tian Shan intérieur. Social Anthropology Journal (forthcoming)

2011

Review of Berdahl, Daphne. On the Social Life of Postsocialism: Memory, consumption, Germany. Edited and introduced by Matti Bunzl. Anthropological Notebooks 17:3-4, p. 105.

Interviews

2011

‘Dve rodiny Zhanny’ (Jeanne's two homelands). Vecherny Bishkek newspaper, 25th August, p. 29. Full-page interview on the uses of anthropology in Kyrgyzstan.

2009

‘Kyrgyz Kyz Janna’ (Jeanne, a Kyrgyz girl). In: Ai’yl Ajary. Article outlining research experience and results in a Kyrgyz farmers’ magazine.