Svetlana Borodina, PhD, CPACC
About me
I am a Mellon Teaching Fellow at the Harriman Institute and Lecturer in Anthropology at Columbia University. I received my Ph.D. in Anthropology from Rice University in May 2020.
Currently, I study post-Soviet cultures and politics of disability inclusion in Russia. My work is forthcoming in Cultural Anthropology. Already published pieces may be found in Digital Icons: Studies in Russian, Eurasian and Central European New Media, Current History, and Remaking the Human: Cosmetic Technologies of Body Repair, Reshape and Replacement. My research has been supported by the Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship, the Social Science Research Council, the Wenner-Gren Foundation, and the Social Sciences Research Institute at Rice University.
With the support of the Harriman Institute, I have organized the Work of Care in Russia lecture series (2021-2022) and the Minority Inclusion and Exclusion in Post-Communist Societies speaker series (2020-2021). Currently, I serve as the managing editor at Platypus, the official blog of the American Anthropological Association’s Committee for the Anthropology of Science, Technology, and Computing, and a co-chair of the Early Career Disability Anthropology Community. Beginning June 2022, I will serve as the Deputy Book Review Editor at American Ethnologist.
Research interests:
disability anthropology | medical anthropology | inclusion | social change | embodied aspects of social change | technologies of inclusion | postsocialism | Russia
Please feel free to reach out to me at sb4468@columbia.edu
Svetlana Borodina
sb4468@columbia.edu
Svetlana Borodina, Anthropologist 