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	Tel : +44 (0)20 7679 8646 Fax: +44 (0)20 7679 8632 E-mail: r.mandel@ucl.ac.uk Room: 234 Office hours: By appointment (Term 2)

PhD, Cultural Anthropology
University of Chicago, 1988

Publications

Books published

	Cosmopolitan Anxieties: Turkish Challenges to Citizenship and Belonging in Germany Winner of William A. Douglass Prize from the Society for the Anthropology of Europe, of the American Anthropological Association. Named the Best Book of the Year in Europeanist Anthropology. Duke University Press UK Amazon
	Markets and Moralities: Ethnographies of Postsocialism Edited by Ruth Mandel and Caroline Humphrey Berg Press/NYU Press 2002 Cover: 'Weiche' (Switch) by Neo Rauch. Rauch's socialist-era images, such as the woman's uniform and the panoptic watch-tower, confront a troubling dystopic uncertainty that encompasses the socialist past as well as the postsocialist present and future

General Interest

Transnational migration, ethnicity and identity Post-socialist societies in transition International development: anthropological critiques Media and international development Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), forced migration Anthropology of Turkey, Greece, Germany

Current Work

Currently I am writing a book based on research about media and development in Kazakhstan. (See  Mandel, R. (2002). A Marshall Plan of the Mind: The Political Economy of Kazakh Soap Opera. Chapter 10 in Ginsburg, F.D., Abu-Lughod, L. and Larkin B. (ed.) Media Worlds: Anthropology of New Terrain. Berkeley: University of California Press, 211-228. )

As part of an international, interdisciplinary research team, I have made several research trips to Georgia, studying the situation of IDPs (Internally Displaced Persons) from the several Georgia-Russian conflicts over the past two decades. The project is project funded by the Human and Social Dynamics Program at the National Science Foundation (Washington, D.C.). Beth Mitchneck (University of Arizona) and Joanna Regulska (Rutgers) are the co-PIs of the project.  See our website:
http://georgia.idp.arizona.edu/presentations.html

I am also finishing some articles about 'co-ethnic migration' of Russian-Germans from the former Soviet Union, to Germany.  This research began as a collaborative project carried out with Michael Stewart and Susan Pattie, entitled Citizenship and Belonging: Local Expression of Political and Economic Restructuring, comparing Hungarian, Armenian and Russian-German Diasporas. It was funded by the ESRC's Transnational Communities Programme. See:
http://www.transcomm.ox.ac.uk/wwwroot/stewart.htm

A volume I have edited, Post-Soviet Development Encounters: International Aid and Its Ideologies, is currently under review with Woodrow Wilson Center Press. This book comes out of a series of interdisciplinary workshops I convened at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, D. C.  It is a critical comparison of international development projects and strategies over the past two decades.

Current PhD Students

Debbie Soothill - ESRC funded
Chinese migrants in Madrid
PhD 2011

Carina Rosenlof (Expected 2012)
Religion and modernities: Turkish women in London and Turkey

Besim Can Zirh (Expected 2011)
Turkish Alevi diaspora in Europe

Beata Świtek (Expected 2011)
Indonesian migrant workers in Japan

Galina Oustinova-Stjepanovic (Expected 2011)
Sufi Muslims in Macedonia

Janine Su (Expected 2012)
Male sexuality in Istanbul, Turkey

Dia Flores (Expected 2012)
Performing transnationalism among Filipino migrants in London

Tiziana Traldi (Expected 2014)
Foreign domestic workers in Italy

Aykut Öztürk (Expected 2014)
Armenian migrants between Istanbul and Yerevan

Özde Çeliktemel (with Film Studies) (Expected 2014)
Early silent film in late Ottoman Turkey

Recent PhD Students

Aybil Goker (2008)
London's Greek and Turkish Cypriot communities in contact

Anna-Cristina Pertierra (2006)
Radio and television in daily life in Cuba

Heather Horst (2004)
'Back a Yaad': Consructions of Home Among Jamaica's Returned Migrant Community.

Kay Russell (2002)
Being Slovene at the East-West Frontier: Negotiating Identities in the Borderlands

Kathryn Tomlinson (2002)
Coping as Kin: Responses to Suffering Amongst Displaced Meskhetian Turks in Post-Soviet Krasnodar, Russian Federation