Degrees
Ph. D., University of California, Berkeley
Selected Publications
2020 “Reflections on Fieldwork in Maramures: Identity as a Category of Practice.” In
Recalling Fieldwork: People, Places and Encounters,” edited by R. Mateoc. Berlin:
LIT Verlag. 97-118.
2017 “Speech given on the 25th of May 2017 on the occasion of being awarded the Doctor
Honoris Causa title of the Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca,” Studia Sociologia
62:1, 19-28.
“Începem și noi să facem haz de necaz,” Dilema veche, nr. 697, 29 iunie-5 iulie,
2015 Țăranii Sub Asediu: Colectivizarea Agriculturii în România (1949-1962), by
Gail Kligman and Katherine Verdery. Bucharest: Editura Polirom.
2011 Peasants Under Siege: The Collectivization of Agriculture in Romania, 1949-1962, byGail Kligman and Katherine Verdery. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
AWARDS: 2012 Barbara Jelavich Best Book Prize, Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies; 2012 Davis Center Outstanding Monograph in Political and Social Studies, Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies; 2012 Heldt Prize, Association for Women in Slavic Studies; Honorable Mention, 2012, Wayne S. Vucinich Most Important Contribution Prize, Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies; Honorable Mention, 2012 Barrington Moore Best Book Award in Comparative-Historical Sociology, the American Sociology Association; Honorable Mention, 2012 Best Book Award, Political Sociology Section, the American Sociology Association.
2009 “Creating Communist Authority: Class War and the Collectivization in Ieud, Maramures” (translation, see c.v. 2005). InTransforming Peasants, Property and Power, edited by Dorin Dobrincu and Constantin Iordachi. Budapest: CEU Press, pp. 165-201.
2000 Susan Gal and Gail Kligman, The Politics of Gender After Socialism: An Historical Comparative Essay. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 2000.
AWARD; 2001 Heldt Prize, Association for Women in Slavic Studies,
2000 Susan Gal and Gail Kligman, eds. Reproducing Gender: Politics, Publics and Everyday Life After Socialism. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
1998 The Politics of Duplicity: Controlling Reproduction in Ceausescu's Romania, Los Angeles: University of California Press.
AWARDS: 1998 Heldt Prize, American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (best book in women’s studies); Honorable Mention, 1999 Victoria Schuck Award (on women and politics), American Political Science Association.
1996 "Gendering Women's Identities in Postcommunist Eastern Europe." In Identities in Transition: Russia and Eastern Europe After Communism, edited by V. Bonnell. Berkeley: IAS Publications.
Research
Current Courses by Term
Special Topics in Sociology
Working Group in Sociology
Politics of Reproduction
Working Group in Sociology
Teaching Apprentice Practicum
Previous Courses by Term
Special Topics in Sociology
Undergraduate Seminar: Politics of Reproduction
Undergraduate Seminar: Politics of Reproduction
Special Topics in Sociology
Special Topics in Sociology
Undergraduate Seminar: Politics of Reproduction
Special Topics in Sociology
Selected Topics in Sociology of Gender
Undergraduate Seminar: Politics of Reproduction
Politics of Reproduction, Gender, and Family
Variable Topics Research Seminars: Sociology
Selected Topics in Sociology of Gender
Colloquia and Speaker Series
Colloquia and Speaker Series: European Studies
Colloquia and Speaker Series: European Studies
Special Topics in Sociology
Colloquia and Speaker Series: European Studies
Politics of Reproduction
Colloquia and Speaker Series: European Studies
Ethnographic Fieldwork
Colloquia and Speaker Series: European Studies
Ethnographic Fieldwork
Variable Topics Research Seminars: European Studies
Special Topics in Sociology
Trafficking, Gender, Health, and Human Rights
Politics of Reproduction
Politics of Reproduction
Special Topics in Sociology
Directed Honors Studies
Selected Topics in Sociology of Gender
Undergraduate Seminar: Politics of Reproduction
Selected Topics in Sociology of Gender
Politics of Reproduction
Ethnographic Fieldwork
Theories of Exchange: Social Life of Gifts and Commodities
Special Topics in European Studies
Ethnographic Fieldwork
Politics of Reproduction
Analyzing Ethnographies
Politics of Reproduction
Special Topics in Sociology
Politics of Reproduction
Analyzing Ethnographies
Selected Topics in Sociology of Gender
Politics of Reproduction
Women in Socialist and Post-Socialist States
Previous Courses by Course
Special Topics in Sociology
2019 Spring Quarter
2002 Winter Quarter
Undergraduate Seminar: Politics of Reproduction
2018 Fall Quarter
2018 Winter Quarter
2016 Fall Quarter
2014 Fall Quarter
2006 Fall Quarter
Special Topics in Sociology
2017 Fall Quarter
2012 Winter Quarter
Special Topics in Sociology
2017 Winter Quarter
2016 Spring Quarter
Selected Topics in Sociology of Gender
2015 Spring Quarter
2012 Fall Quarter
2007 Winter Quarter
2006 Spring Quarter
Selected Topics in Sociology of Gender
2015 Spring Quarter
2012 Fall Quarter
Politics of Reproduction, Gender, and Family
2014 Winter Quarter
Variable Topics Research Seminars: Sociology
2013 Fall Quarter
Colloquia and Speaker Series
2012 Fall Quarter
Colloquia and Speaker Series: European Studies
2012 Spring Quarter
2012 Winter Quarter
2011 Fall Quarter
2011 Spring Quarter
2011 Winter Quarter
Politics of Reproduction
Ethnographic Fieldwork
2011 Spring Quarter
2004 Spring Quarter
2003 Spring Quarter
Ethnographic Fieldwork
2011 Winter Quarter
Special Topics in Sociology
2010 Spring Quarter
2008 Winter Quarter
Variable Topics Research Seminars: European Studies
2010 Spring Quarter
Trafficking, Gender, Health, and Human Rights
2010 Winter Quarter
Special Topics in Sociology
2008 Winter Quarter
Directed Honors Studies
2007 Winter Quarter
Selected Topics in Sociology of Gender
2007 Winter Quarter
2006 Spring Quarter
Theories of Exchange: Social Life of Gifts and Commodities
2003 Fall Quarter
Special Topics in European Studies
2003 Spring Quarter
Analyzing Ethnographies
2002 Fall Quarter
2001 Fall Quarter
Politics of Reproduction
2002 Fall Quarter
2001 Fall Quarter
Politics of Reproduction
2002 Fall Quarter
2001 Fall Quarter
Selected Topics in Sociology of Gender
2000 Fall Quarter
Women in Socialist and Post-Socialist States