Selected Articles, Op-Ed, and Essays
“For Albania, Capitalism’s Promise of Freedom Soon Turned Sour,” Jacobin Magazine, November 11, 2021
“Why Won’t Eastern Europeans Get Vaccinated?,” with Mitchell A. Orenstein, Project Syndicate, November 8, 2021, also in Russian, German, Arabic, Bosnian, and Spanish.
“When the women’s movement went global,” Le Monde Diplomatique English, July 1, 2021
“Les « grands-mères rouges » du mouvement international des femmes,” Le Monde Diplomatique , June 30, 2021, [also in German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Hungarian, and Farci]
“Debatte: Mitgefühl nicht verschenken,” TAZ, May 22, 2020
“My Daughter’s Abandoned Prom Dress,” Ms. Magazine, May 16, 2020
“The Most Famous Feminist You’ve Never Heard Of,” Ms. Magazine, March 29, 2020
“How the socialist behind paid child care and parental leave was erased from women’s history,” NBC Think, March 7, 2020
“Women’s Unpaid Labor is Worth $10,900,000,000,000” with Gus Wezerek, New York Times, March 5, 2020
“Socialists have long fought for women’s rights,” Jacobin, February 28, 2020
Faculty Forum: The Tyranny of the Immediate,” Academe, Winter 2020
Letter: EBRD must own up to the failure of its policies,” with Mitchell A. Orenstein, Financial Times, December 5, 2019
“How Banning Abortion Will Transform America,” with Maria Bucur, Project Syndicate, May 15, 2019
Así cambiaría la sociedad de EE. UU. si se sigue prohibiendo el aborto [Spanish]
“How a New Generation of Socialists Can Win Power (While Avoiding the Mistakes of the Past)” In These Times, April 25, 2019
“How Regime Change Breeds Demagogues,” The New Republic, March 11, 2019
как смена режима порождает авторитарных правителей [Russian]
Cum schimbarea regimurilor favorizează ascensiunea autoritarismului [Romanian]
“Have you wished your mother a Happy International Women’s Day yet?” New York Times, March 8, 2019
¿Has deseado a tu madre un feliz Día Internacional de la Mujer? [Spanish]
“An American Tale: How Cold War Officialdom Made the World Safe for Propaganda,” The Baffler, No. 44, March 2019
“Gendered impacts of privatisation and austerity in eastern Europe,” The Lancet, February 9, 2019
“What the socialist Kama Sutra tells us about sex behind the Iron Curtain,” Washington Post, November 20, 2018
что может рассказать нам о сексе за Железным занавесом социалистическая «Камасутра»[Russian]
“Sex and money: the two things always linked in women’s lives,” inews.co.uk, November 20, 2018
“What Has Socialism Ever Done for Women?” (with Julia Mead) Catalyst, Vol 2. No. 2, 2018
“Crashing the Party: The radical legacy of a Soviet-era feminist,” World Policy Journal, No, 2, Summer 2018
“Paranoia, Conspiracy Theories, and Democratic Decay: Reflections on the Political Commentaries of Ivan Krastev,” Cultural Anthropology, April 25, 2018
“Anti-anti-communism,” Aeon.co, March 22, 2018 (with S. Sehon)
Анти-антикоммунизм [Russian]
“Finland’s Red Women,” Jacobin, January 10, 2018
Красные женщины Финляндии [Russian]
“Exonerando a los fascistas en la Europa del Este,” Nuestra Historia, No. 4, 2017.
“Partisanka, Farewell,” Transitions Online, December 11, 2017
“The Youngest Partisan,” Jacobin, December 1, 2017
“Why Women Had Better Sex Under Socialism,” New York Times, Sunday Review, August 12, 2017
社会主义国家女性更“性”福 [Chinese]
Warum DDR-Frauen den besseren Sex hatten [German]
Почему при социализме секс у женщин был лучше [Russian]
“The Missing War,” Anthropology and Humanism, 42(1) 2017: 36-38
Mi hija y el horror de Donald Trump, Engarce (Mexico), Año 2, No. 4 2017: 32-34
Einstein’s Pacifism: A Conversation with Wolfram Wette, The Institute Letter, Fall 2015
Fantasies of Feminist History in Eastern Europe,” with Adriana Zaharijević, Eurozine.com, July 31, 2015
“Fantazije O Feminističkoj Povijesti U Istočnoj Europi – Odgovor Slavenki Drakulić” [Serbian]
The Left Side of History: The Legacy of Bulgaria’s Elena Lagadinova, ForeignAffairs.com, April 29, 2015
“Η αριστερή πλευρά της ιστορίας: Η κληρονομιά που άφησε η Elena Lagadinova της Βουλγαρίας” [Greek]
Sonya Michel: Mentor and Mensch, (with Maria Bucur-Deckard) Social Politics, 22(3) 2015: 276-282
Monuments and Memory Wars in Hungary, Muftah.org, November 10, 2014
Victims of Communism and Historical Amnesia in Eastern Europe, Muftah.org, September 15, 2014
Women’s Rights and the Cold War, Vagabond Magazine, September 2014. (pdf)
Photoessay: A Tale of Two Protests, Reviews & Critical Commentary, March 26, 2014
Who was Frank Thompson? Vagabond Magazine, November 2013.
Revisiting 1989: The Specter Still Haunts, Dissent Magazine, Spring 2012
Subtle Censorships: Notes on Studying Bulgarian Women’s Lives Under Communism, Journal of Women’s History: Beyond the Page, Fall 2012
Communism as Golden Age?, New Age: The Outspoken Daily (Bangladesh)
Rescuing Tolstoy, International Herald Tribune, 2011
Crying Dyson, an interview with Professor Freeman Dyson for Geek Magazine in 2007
Professor Parent column for Chronicle Vitae:
- Work, Work, Work Chronicle Vitae, (November 7th, 2016)
- Saying nothing, or Saying no? Chronicle Vitae, (May 26th, 2016)
- The Dangers of McMindfulness, Chronicle Vitae, (April 5th, 2016)
- Taking the Family with you on a Fellowship, Chronicle Vitae, (March 7, 2016)
- A fellowship that favors mothers? Chronicle Vitae, (January 22, 2016)
- Do I have time to write this? Chronicle Vitae, (November 19, 2015)
Guest Blog posts:
- “Intersectional before it was cool,” Duke University Press blog (February 12, 2019)
- “Why I like Typewriters,” Savage Minds blog, (January 30, 2015)
- “A Political Suicide and the Return of the Greek Left,” Savage Minds blog (January 26, 2015)
- “Ethnographers as Writers: Write First Drafts in One Go,” Savage Minds blog (January 23, 2015)
- “The Ethnographic Book Trailer?” Savage Minds blog (January 21, 2015)
- “Ethnographers as Writers: Consider Endnotes,” Savage Minds blog, (January 19, 215)
- “Ethnographers as Writers: Theory and Data Part II, ” Savage Minds blog, (January 16, 2015)
- “Ethnographers as Writers: Theory and Data Part I,” Savage Minds blog, (January 14, 2015)
- “Ethnographers as Writers: Getting Started” Savage Minds blog (January 11, 2015)
- “A Death in the Field,” Savage Minds blog (January 8, 2015)
- “Ethnographers as Writers: A light-hearted introduction to Academese” Savage Minds blog (January 4, 2015)
- “Ethnographers as Writers: An Introduction” Savage Minds blog (January 1, 2015)
- “My Ten Steps for Writing a Book” Savage Minds blog (February 24, 2014)
- “Writing a Book in Ten Steps,” ASEEES Blog, (April 14, 2014)
- The Ukraine Crisis: Rebooting Russia, guest post on Foreign Policy In Focus, Focal Points Blog, (March 10, 2014)
- “Wanted: The Academic Equivalent of the “Pretty Girl Rock”” The Professor is In blog, (October 7, 2011)
- “Tenure Tracks and Ticking Clocks” Women and Family Researchers Network blog, (August 22, 2011)