Douglas Rogers
A former SSRC Fellow, Rogers’s research and teaching interests include political and economic anthropology, natural resource extraction (especially oil) and energy, the anthropology of religion, and socialist societies and their postsocialist trajectories. He has done archival and ethnographic research in Russia since 1994, often in collaboration with scholars from Moscow State University, Perm State University, and the Perm Regional Museums. He is currently working on an ethnography-based project entitled “Oil Culture: Producing the New Russia.” Funded in 2009-2012 by the National Science Foundation Cultural Anthropology Program and the National Council for East European and Eurasian Research, this project explores the …