ZSUZSAGILLE

DepartmentofSociology
3092LincolnHall
UniversityofIllinois,UrbanaChampaign
702S.WrightStreet,MC454
Urbana,IL61801
gille@illinois.edu
http://illinois.academia.edu/ZsuzsaGille

ACADEMICEMPLOYMENT

AssociateProfessor AffiliateFaculty
DepartmentofSociology UnitforCriticism(0%)
UniversityofIllinois,UrbanaChampaign UniversityofIllinois,UrbanaChampaign
2006present 2005topresent

AssistantProfessor AffiliateFaculty
DepartmentofSociology EuropeanUnionCenter
UniversityofIllinois,UrbanaChampaign UniversityofIllinois,UrbanaChampaign
1999to2006 2003topresent

AdjunctFaculty(0%) AffiliateFaculty
DepartmentofGeography CenterforGlobalStudies
UniversityofIllinois,UrbanaChampaign UniversityofIllinois,UrbanaChampaign
2005topresent 2004topresent

AffiliateFaculty
Russian,EastEuropeanandEurasianCenter
UniversityofIllinois,UrbanaChampaign
1999topresent
AffiliateFaculty
BeckmanInstituteforAdvancedScienceand
Technology,MemberofSocialDimensionsof
EnvironmentalPolicyResearchInitiative
UniversityofIllinois,UrbanaChampaign
20102015

EDUCATION

Ph.D.,Sociology,UniversityofCalifornia,SantaCruz.September,1999.
Dissertation:WastelandsinTransition:TheThreeWasteRegimesofHungary,1948
1998.

B.A.equivalent,SociologyandEconomics,KarlMarxUniversityofEconomics,Budapest,
Hungary.October1987.
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BOOKS

Todorova,MariaandZsuzsaGille(Eds.)2010.PostCommunistNostalgia.NewYork:
BerghahnPress.(Paperbackedition2012.)
Gille,Zsuzsa.2007.FromtheCultofWastetotheTrashHeapofHistory:ThePoliticsofWaste
inSocialistandPostsocialistHungary.IndianaUniversityPress.
Gille,Zsuzsa(coauthorwithMichaelBurawoy(firstauthor),JosephABlum,ShebaGeorge,
TeresaGowan,LynneHaney,MarenKlawiter,StevenH.Lopez,SeanORiainandMillie
Thayer).2000.GlobalEthnography:Forces,ConnectionsandImaginationsina
PostmodernWorld.Berkeley,CA:UniversityofCaliforniaPress.

BOOKAWARD

2008.AmericanAssociationfortheStudyofSlavicSocieties(PredecessorofASEEES).Davis
Prize,honorablementionforFromtheCultofWastetotheTrashHeapofHistory:The
PoliticsofWasteinSocialistandPostsocialistHungary.

GUESTEDITOR

2009.ThematicclusterNature,CultureandPower.SlavicReview.Vol.68(1).

PEERREVIEWEDARTICLES

Gille,Zsuzsa.(Inpress).FromRisktoWaste:GlobalFoodWasteRegimes.TheSociological
ReviewMonographSeries(EditedbyAnneMurcottandDavidEvans).
_____.2011.TheHungarianFoieGrasBoycott:StrugglesforMoralSovereigntyin
PostsocialistEurope.EasternEuropeanPoliticsandSocieties.25:114128.
_____.2010.ReassemblingtheMacrosocial:ModesofProduction,ActorNetworksandWaste
Regimes.EnvironmentandPlanningA, 10491064.
_____.2010.IsThereaGlobalPostsocialistCondition?GlobalSociety,Volume24(1):930.
_____.2009.FromNatureasProxytoNatureasActor.Introductiontothematiccluster
Nature,CultureandPower.SlavicReview.Vol.68(1):19.
_____.2005.EuropeanizingHungarianWastePolicies:ProgressorRegression?
EnvironmentalPolitics.13(1):114134.
_____.2002.CinderellasofEurope:Waste,FoodandCleanlinessinPostsocialistPolitics.
AnthropologyofEasternEuropeReview.17(1):6774.
Gille,ZsuzsaandSeanORiain.(2002).GlobalEthnography.AnnualReviewofSociology.
28:27195.
_____.2001.StudyingGlobalizationCritically,TowardsaNewConceptofSite.Cultural
StudiesCriticalMethodologies.1(3):319334.
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______.2000.LegacyofWasteorWastedLegacy?TheEndofIndustrialEcologyin
Hungary.EnvironmentalPolitics9(1):203234.
(ReprintedinArthurP.J.MolandDavidA.Sonnenfeld(Eds.)2000.Ecological
ModernisationAroundtheWorld:PerspectivesandCriticalDebates.London:FrankCass.
203234.
______.1997.TwopairsofWomensBootsforaHectareofLand:Natureandthe
ConstructionoftheEnvironmentalProbleminStateSocialism,Capitalism,Nature,
Socialism.8(4):121.

BOOKCHAPTERS

Gille,Zsuzsa.(Forthcoming).Materiality.InHilaryKahn(Ed.)FramingtheGlobal.Indiana
UniversityPress.
CatherineAlexander,NickyGregson,andZsuzsaGille.(Inpress).Food,leftovers,andwaste.
In:AnneMurcott,WarrenBelasco,PeterJackson(Eds.)TheHandbookofFoodResearch.
BergPublishers.
Gille,Zsuzsa.2012.GlobalEthnography2.0:MaterializingtheTransnational.In:Anna
Amelina,DevrimselD.Nergiz,ThomasFaist,NinaGlickSchiller(Eds.)Beyond
MethodologicalNationalismResearchMethodologiesforCrossBorderStudies.Routledge.
93110.
_____.2012.SociologyofWaste.EncyclopediaofConsumptionandWasteeditedbyCarlA.
Zimring.Sage.833837.
_____.2012.SocialistSocieties.EncyclopediaofConsumptionandWasteeditedbyCarlA.
Zimring.Sage.829830.
_____.2009.TheTaleoftheToxicPaprika:TheHungarianTasteofEuroGlobalization.In:
MelissaCaldwell(Ed).FoodandEverydayLifeinPostsocialistEurasia.IndianaUniversity
Press.97128.
_____.2009.Conclusion.In:Todorova,MariaandZsuzsaGille(Eds.)PostCommunist
Nostalgia.NewYork:BerghahnPress.
_____.2006.DetachedFlowsorGroundedPlaceMakingProjects?InArthurP.J.Moland
GertSpaargaren(Eds.)Towardsasociologyofenvironmentalflows:Anewagendafor21st
centuryenvironmentalsociology.MITPress.
_____.2006.Context,field,andvision:ThethreerolesofEuropeinpostsocialism.InAndreas
Langenohl/KirstenWestphal(eds.):ConflictsinaTransnationalWorld:Lessonsfrom
NationsandStatesinTransformation(SchriftenfrEntwicklungsundUmweltforschung,
vol.16),Frankfurta.M.u.a.:PeterLang.209222.
_____.2004.EuropeanizingHungarianWastePolicies:ProgressorRegression?InJoAnn
CarminandStacyD.VanDeveer(Eds.)EUEnlargementandtheEnvironment:Institutional
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ChangeandEnvironmentalQualityinCentralandEasternEurope.Cambridge:MITPress.
ReprintedinEnvironmentalPolitics.
Gille,Zsuzsa.2003.FromMetallictoSickly:ChemicalWaste,EnvironmentalDiscourse,and
theNationalBodyinPostSocialistHungary.InSyntheticPlanet:ChemicalPoliticsand
theHazardsofModernLife.EditedbyMonicaCasper.London:Routledge.91110.
_____.2001.SocialandSpatialInequalitiesinHungarianEnvironmentalPolitics:AHistorical
Perspective.inP.Evans(Ed.)ThePoliticsofUrbanLivelihoodandSustainability.Berkeley
CA:UniversityofCaliforniaPress.132161.
_____.2000.CognitiveCartographyinaEuropeanWasteland:MultinationalsandGreensVie
forVillageAllegiance.inM.Burawoy,etal.GlobalEthnography:Forces,Connections
andImaginationsinaPostmodernWorld.Berkeley,CA:UniversityofCaliforniaPress.
240267.
______.2000.LegacyofWasteorWastedLegacy?TheEndofIndustrialEcologyin
Hungary.InArthurP.J.MolandDavidA.Sonnenfeld(Eds.)2000.Ecological
ModernisationAroundtheWorld:PerspectivesandCriticalDebates.London:FrankCass.
203234.
______.1999.WastelandsinTransition:FormsandConceptsofWasteinHungarysince
1948.inW.Goldfrank,D.Goodman,andA.Szasz(Eds.)EcologyandtheWorldSystem.
Westport,CT:GreenwoodPress.165185.

BOOKREVIEWS

Gille,Zsuzsa.2012.FeaturedreviewofJohannaBockmansMarketsintheNameofSocialism:
TheLeftWingOriginsofNeoliberalism.SlavicReview.Vol.71.no.3.65557.
_____.2011.ReviewofJzsef Brczs The European Union and Global Social Change: A
Critical Geopolitical-Economic Analysis. Journal of World-Systems Research. Vol. 17. no. 2.
569-571.
_____.2011.ReviewofLyonandMobergsFairTradeandSocialJustice:Global
Ethnographies.ContemporarySociology. July2011;vol.40,4:pp.463465.
_____.2009.ReviewofPenceandBettsSocialistModern:EastGermanEverydayCultureand
Politics.SlavicReview.68(3):672673.
_____.2007.ReviewofKristaHarpersWildCapitalism:EnvironmentalActivistsandPost
SocialistPoliticalEcologyinHungary.SlavicReview.67(1):219220.
_____.2007.ReviewofUlrichBecksCosmopolitanVision.AmericanJournalofSociology.
Vol.113Issue1,264266.
_____.2005.ReviewofE.DunnsPrivatizingPoland:BabyFood,BigBusiness,andthe
RemakingofLabor.AmericanJournalofSociology.111(2):63941.
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_____.2004.ReviewofE.FodorsWorkingDifference:WomensWorkingLivesinHungary
andAustria,19451995.ContemporarySociology.Vol.33(2):168169.
_____.2004.ReviewofD.N.PellowandL.SunHeeParksTheSiliconValleyofDreams:
EnvironmentalJustice,ImmigrantWorkers,andtheHighTechGlobalEconomy.American
JournalofSociology.Vol.109(2):521522.
_____.2002.ReviewofC.OlivosCreatingaDemocraticCivilSocietyinEasternGermany:
TheCaseoftheCitizenMovementsandAlliance90.AmericanJournalofSociology.
107(7):520521.
_____.2001.InformalityfromanEthnographicPerspective:ReviewofA.Ledenevas
RussiasEconomyofFavours.Accounts:ANewsletterofEconomicSociology.(The
publicationoftheEconomicSociologySectionoftheAmericanSociologicalAssociation.)
Gille,ZsuzsaandSeanORiain.2001."Ethnographyafterlocality."Ethnography.2(2):302308.

INVITEDRESPONSES

Gille,Zsuzsa.2013.Isthereanemancipatoryontologyofmatter?ResponsetoMyraHird.
SocialEpistemology ReviewandReplyCollective2(4)16.
_____.2009.CommentaryonTimCoopersRecyclingModernity:TowardsanEnvironmental
HistoryofWasteCompassInterdisciplinaryVirtualConference.WileyBlackwell.October
1930,2009.http://compassconference.wordpress.com/2009/10/22/conferencepaper
recyclingmodernitytowardsanenvironmentalhistoryofwaste/

NEWSLETTERARTICLES

ZsuzsaGille.2003.TheeasternenlargementoftheEuropeanUnion:Aviewfromeasternand
centralEurope.TheNewsletteroftheRussianandEastEuropeanCenter,Universityof
Illinois,UrbanaChampaign.
_____.2002.Nature,Economy,andCulture:ABiasedCalltoDialoguebetween
EnvironmentalandEconomicSociology.Accounts:ANewsletterofEconomicSociology:
NewsletteroftheEconomicSociologySectionoftheAmericanSociologicalAssociation.
3(1):910(ReprintedinEnvironment,Technology,andSociety:NewsletteroftheSectionon
EnvironmentandTechnologyoftheAmericanSociologicalAssociation.2003(107):1011.

BOOKSINPROGRESS

_____.(Ed.)(UnderReview.)PostsocialistStructuresofDifference:Whiteness,Transparency,
AndThePoliticsOfCareFromARelationalPerspective.
Gille,Zsuzsa.Pigs,Paprika,andPredestination:TheEuropeanUnionasMaterialCivilization.
Manuscriptinprogress.
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_____.(Ed.)ConsumingSustainability:TheNewEthicsofFood,Nanotechnology,andGlobal
ClimateChange.Manuscriptinprogress.

ARTICLESANDBOOKCHAPTERSINPROGRESS

Gille,ZsuzsaandGyulaKasza.(Forthcoming.)Whoseethics?Whoselabor?Whosefood?:The
boycottofHungarianfoiegrasInYusonJung,MelissaCaldwellandJakobKlein,Eds.
EthicalFoodsandFoodMovementsinPostsocialistSettings.UniversityofCaliforniaPress.
Gille,Zsuzsa.(Forthcoming).Ecologicalmodernizationorwastedependentdevelopment?:
Hungary's2010redmuddisaster.InTrischler,Helmuth,RuthOdenziel,andHeikeWeber
(Eds.)CyclingandRecycling.
_____.WesternLiberalCosmopolitanismvs.theIndignados:ThePoliticsofIdentityand
RecognitioninResponsetotheEuroCrisis.

RESEARCHGRANTS

MellonFoundation.20112015.FramingtheGlobal.UniversityofIndiana,Bloomington.
$15,000
UIUC.ResearchBoard.ArnoldO.BeckmanAward.2010.The2010RedMudSpillof
Hungary.($10,000)
UIUC.GraduateCollege.FocalPointProgram.2009.GlobalPatternsofSustainable
Consumption.Collaborativeresearchgrant.$15,000.
UIUC.CenterforGlobalStudies.MatchingfundforFocalPointGrant(seeabove).$5,000.
SSRCESRC(EconomicandSocialResearchCouncil)CollaborativeVisitingFellowship2009.
TocollaborateontheWasteoftheWorldProjectbasedattheUniversityofSheffield.Food
WasteRegimesintheU.S.andtheU.K.:ANewPerspectiveonTheQualityTurnInFood
Production.(5,000).
UIUC.CampusResearchBoard.$3,275.ConflictingLegalitiesinRegulatingFoodProduction
andTradeinHungaryAfterEUAccession.(RAsupport).2007.
InternationalResearchandExchangesBoard(IREX).2003.IndividualResearchGrants
($23,000).Postponedforandusedin2004.
FacultyExchangeProgrambetweentheUniversityofIllinoisatUrbanaChampaignandthe
KatholiekeUniversiteitLeuven.2003.
NationalCouncilofEastEuropeanandEurasianReseach(NCEEER).2003.PolicyResearch
Grant($20,000)(declinedduetoincompatibilitywithIREXgrant)
HewlettInternationalTravelGrant.2003.($4,000).
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UIUC.CampusResearchBoard.2001.TheFormationofthe'EUIntelligentsia'InHungary:
EnvironmentalProtectionasaBargainingChipIntheEasternEnlargementoftheEuropean
Union.Researchgrant($8,975)
AmericanCouncilofLearnedSocietiesandSocialScienceResearchCouncil.JointCommittee
onEasternEurope.DissertationWritingGrant,199697.
InternationalResearchandExchangesBoard.DissertationResearchGrant,199596.
WennerGrenFoundationforAnthropologicalResearch.DissertationResearchGrant,199596.
Fulbright(IIE).DissertationResearchGrant,199596.(Declined)
ProjectonEuropeanEnvironmentalHistory,SociologyandPolicy.UniversityofCalifornia,
SantaCruz.DissertationResearchGrant,1995.
CenterforGermanandEuropeanStudies,UniversityofCalifornia,Berkeley.Predissertation
ResearchGrant,1993.

TEACHINGGRANTS

UIUC.EnvironmentalCouncil.2003.CourseDevelopmentGrantforSOC396TheSociologyof
RiskandWaste.

UIUC.RussianandEastEuropeanStudies.2002.Coursedevelopmentgrant($2,000)for
developingMediainpostsocialism(withProfessorCarolLeff).

EuropeanUnionCenter,UIUC.2002.Coursedevelopmentgrant($6,000)forThePoliticsof
EuropeanIdentity.

UIUC.RussianandEastEuropeanStudies.2001.Coursedevelopmentgrant($1,500)for
developingSoc482RecentDevelopmentsintheStudyofPostsocialism:Power,Identity,and
CommodificationintheFormerSovietUnionandEasternEurope.

CONFERENCEGRANTS

UIUC.TitleVI.Centers.2009.TheFutureofWaste.(JointAreaStudiesCentersConferenceto
beheldin2013).
UIUC.LASDean.StateoftheArtConferenceGrant.NewPostsocialistOntologiesandPolitics.
(tobeheldMarch2011).
UIUC.LASDean.StateoftheArtConferenceGrant.2002.EUtopia:Enlargementandthe
PoliticsofEuropeanIdentity.April1012,2003.AppliedonbehalfoftheRussianand
EasternEuropeanCenterandtheEuropeanUnionCenter($5,000).
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AWARDS
EvaluatedasexcellentteacherinSpring2000andFall2000,Fall2002,Spring2005,Fall2006,
Fall2010,Spring2011(UIUC).

AmericanSociologicalAssociationSectiononEnvironmentandTechnologysMarvinE.Olsen
GraduateStudentPaperAwardforthepaperCognitiveCartographyinaEuropeanWasteland.
1997.

FELLOWSHIPS

UIUC.ResearchBoard.HumanitiesTimeRelease.2011.Onesemestercoursereleasetowork
onPigs,Paprika,andPredestination:TheEuropeanUnionasMaterialCivilization.
BeckmanFellow,CenterforAdvancedStudies,UniversityofIllinois.2003.Onesemester
courserelease.
LASDeansTeachingFellowship$1,500forrevisingSoc380FieldMethodsandtoattend
ReflexiveTeachingSeminar,2001.

HarvardUniversity.TheProgramfortheStudyofGermanyandEurope.Fellowshiptoattend
theNewDirectionsintheStudyofEastEuropeanStateSocialismGraduateStudent
Workshop,November79,1997.
UniversityofCalifornia,SantaCruz.ProvostsTeachingFellow,19971999.
InstituteonGlobalCooperationandConflict.Fellowshiptoattendtheteachingseminar
TransitionstoMarketsandDemocracy.UniversityofCalifornia,Berkeley.December
1993.

TEACHINGEXPERIENCE

AssistantProfessorofSociology.UniversityofIllinoisatUrbanaChampaign.
Fall19992006.
AssociateProfessorofSociology.UniversityofIllinoisatUrbanaChampaign.
Fall2006present.
Coursesdevelopedandtaught:
SOC 596 Nature and Technology from Transnational Perspective
SOC 582 Global Ethnographies: A Graduate Study in Local-Global Relations
SOC501ContemporaryTheory:Power,CultureandSubjectivity
SOC522RecentDevelopmentsintheStudyofPostsocialism
SOC447EnvironmentalSociology:Nature,Culture,Power
SOC480FieldworkMethods:ConsumingObservations
SOC396GlobalizationFromBelow
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SOC366Postsocialism:Economy,CultureandPowerinEasternEuropeandtheFormer
SovietUnion
SOC496ZGIdentity,Culture,andCitizenshipintheNewEuropeanUnion
MembershipinExamandDissertationCommittees
Currentlytenadvisees
Supervisoronsevendissertationcommitteescurrently
Servedontwentysevenexaminationcommittees,andeighteendissertationcommitteessince
1999.

Guestlectures
EU Center Core Seminar
Russian and East-European Studies undergraduate core
Russian and East-European Studies graduate core seminar
Women Studies graduate core course in methods
EnvironmentalSociology
SocialResearchMethods
Communicationsgraduateseminar
EducationalPolicygraduateseminar

EDITORIALPOSITION

Ethnography.EditorialBoard.Appointed2009.

PEERREVIEWER

AmericanEthnologist IndianaUniversityPress
InternationalJournalofPoliticalEconomy SagePress
FoodandFoodways CentralEuropeanUniversityPress
SocialPolitics NSF
Aspasia MITPress
AmericanSociologicalReview BergPublishers,Oxford
QualitativeSociology ESRC(EconomicandSocialResearch
Ethnography Council,UK)
Ethos AmericanAcademyinBerlin
OrganizationandEnvironment
AmericanJournalofSociology

CONFERENCECONVENER

TheFutureofWaste.JointAreaCentersSymposium,UniversityofIllinois,UrbanaChampaign,
March12,2013.
NewPostsocialistOntologiesandPolitics.InternationalConferenceUniversityofIllinois,
UrbanaChampaign,March1011,2011
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PostCommunistNostalgia.InternationalConferenceUniversityofIllinois,UrbanaChampaign,
April68,2006.OrganizedwithProfessorsMariaTodorovaandMattiBunzl.
EUtopia:EnlargementandthePoliticsofEuropeanIdentity.InternationalConferenceApril10
12,2003.OrganizedwithProfessorMattiBunzl.
TransnationalStudiesWorkshops,DepartmentofSociology,UIUC.Annuallysince2000
present.

ACADEMICSERVICE

National:

Member.VucinichBookPrizeAwardCommitteeoftheAssociationforSlavic,EastEuropean,
andEurasianStudies(ASEEES).2012.

BoardoftheAssociationforSlavic,EastEuropean,andEurasianStudies(ASEEES).20112013.

Member.CommitteeontheStatusofWomen,AmericanAssociationfortheAdvancementof
SlavicStudies.20062008.

Campus:

Member.ReviewCommitteeforINTERSECTproposalstoGraduateCollege.Spring2012.

Member.AdhoccommitteetoreviewtheDirectorofREEEC,UIUC.Spring2012.

Member.ExecutiveCommitteeoftheRussianandEastEuropeanCenter.August,2001June
2003;200506.Member.FacultyAdvisoryCommitteefortheInternationalStudiesMajor,
UIUC20062007,2009present.

ActingDirector,EuropeanUnionCenter,UIUC.Fall2007

HeadofsearchcommitteeforAssociateDirectorforEuropeanUnionCenter,UIUC.Fall2007.

Member.LicensingAdvisoryCommittee,UIUC.Fall,20052007.

Member.ExecutiveCommitteeoftheHumanDimensionsofEnvironmentalSystems.August,
20002002.

Departmental:

Chair.StudentPaperAwardsCommitteeoftheSociologyDepartment,UIUC,Spring2008

Member.AdvisoryCommitteeoftheSociologyDepartment,UIUC.20052008,201213.
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Chair.TransnationalStudiesAreaofConcentration.SociologyDepartment,UIUC.20002001;
20062007;20112012.

Chair.CurriculumCommitteeoftheSociologyDepartment,UIUC.Spring2005.

Member.AdhoccommitteeonrevisingSOC100.SociologyDepartment,UIUC.Spring2001.

INVITEDAPPEARANCES

Invitedtalks:
Gille,Zsuzsa.2013.ConsumingEurope:ThePoliticsOfFoodInPostsocialistHungary.
IllinoisStateUniversity,BloomingtonNormal.March6,2013.
_____.2013.IsthereaGlobalPostsocialistCondition?OhioStateUniversity,Columbus,OH
February15,2013.
_____.2012.WhatisRedinHungarys2010RedMudSpill?UniversityofIllinoisatUrbana
Champaign.EUCandREEEC.March9,2012.
_____.2012."TheWorldsofSteel,Paprika,andFungi:ThePoliticsofMaterialityintheNew
EuropeanUnion."NewYorkUniversity.CenterforEuropeanandMediterraneanStudies.
February28,2012.
_____.2011.TheWorldsofSteel,Paprika,andFungi:Thepoliticsofmaterialityinstate
socialismandpostsocialism.UniversityofCaliforniaatSanDiego,ScienceStudies
SeminarSeries.October31,2011.
_____.2011.GlobalEthnography2.0.NewDirectionsinGlobalizationResearch.Invited
Talk.AmericanSociologicalAssociation,LasVegas.August2023,2011.
Gille,ZsuzsaandJosePeralta.Wasteandbiodiversity:valueanddisuseinaformercorn
culture.WhyDoWeValueDiversity?ACrossDisciplinaryWorkshoponBiocultural
DiversityinGlobalContext.RachelCarsonCenter,Munich,Germany.June45,2011.
Gille,Zsuzsa.2011.MaterialConservationinStateSocialism:Hungary'sWasteRegimes
Re/CyclingHistories:UsersandthePathstoSustainabilityinEverydayLife. RachelCarson
Center,Munich,Germany.May2729,2011.
_____.2011.ContradictionsinWesternHazardousWasteClassifications:Hungary's2010Red
MudDisaster.Re/CyclingHistories:UsersandthePathstoSustainabilityinEverydayLife.
RachelCarsonCenter,Munich,Germany.May2729,2011.
_____.2011.WhatisRedinHungarys2010RedMudSpill?UniversityofChicago,February
24,2011.
_____.2010.MaterialitiesofStateandPostsocialismUniversityofMichigan,AnnArbor.
April14,2010.
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_____.2010.GlobalEthnography2.0:TheStatusofMaterialityinGlobalizationStudies.
BielefeldUniversity.April24
_____.2010.ThepoliticsofwasteinsocialistandpostsocialistHungary.Universityof
Manchester,UK,May20,2010.
_____.2010.Paprika:RiskyorHungarian?UniversityofSheffield,UK,June7,2010.
_____.2009.TheHungarianFoieGrasBoycott:StrugglesForMoralSovereigntyIn
PostsocialistEurope.PresentedattheconferenceTheCommonGoodAfterCommunism.
BowdoinCollege,May1,2009.
_____.2008.MaterialitiesofStateandPostsocialism.CentralEuropeanUniversity.November
17,2008.
_____.2007.ThepoliticsofwasteinsocialistandpostsocialistHungary.December6,2007.
IllinoisWesleyanUniversity.
_____.2007.Introductoryremarks.ConfrontingtheNewEurasiaForum.UIUC,January30.
_____.2007.ParadigmsofEnvironmentalPolicy.Panelinforumforvisitingjournalistsfrom
EasternEurope,Russia,andCentralAsia,UIUC(MurrowInitiative).April20.
_____.PanelistonWendyBrownsRegulatingAversion,April16,2007,UnitforCriticism,
UIUC.
_____.2006.WhoseNature?WhoseRights?FridayForum.YMCA,Urbana,IL.September
22,2006.
_____.2006.PanelistonthepanelGlobalizingAbuGhraib.IllinoisProgramforResearchin
theHumanities,UIUC.April20.
_____.2006.TheTaleoftheToxicPaprika:TheHungarianTasteofEuroGlobalization.
SOYUZAnnualMeeting.BryantUnivesity,March34,2006.
_____.2006.TheTaleoftheToxicPaprika:TheorizingEuroGlobalization.Unitfor
Criticism,UIUC.Keynote.February20,2006.
_____.2005.TheTaleoftheToxicPaprika:TheHungarianTasteofEuroGlobalization.
ConsumerismandEnvironmentalisminaGlobalizingEurope.UniversityofWisconsinat
Madison,October14,2005.
_____.2005.TheTaleoftheToxicPaprika:TheHungarianTasteofEuroGlobalization.The
NationalScienceFoundationsWorkshopontheCulturalPoliticsofGlobalizationand
CommunityInEastCentralEurope,CollegiumBudapest,Hungary,May1213,2005.
(OrganizedbyProfessorMichaelKennedy,UniversityofMichigan,AnnArbor.)
_____.2004.TheRidiculousPast:TropesofEqualityinStateSocialism.SocialScience
ResearchCouncilroundtableonRememberingstatesocialism.AnnualMeetingofthe
AmericanAssociationfortheAdvancementofSlavicStudies,Boston,December4,2004.

_____.2004.WastelandsintheNewEurope:CatchUporCleanUp?InstituteforEuropean
StudiesandtheMellonFoundation,CornellUniversity,November1721,2004.
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_____.2004.ThePigThatDiedforEurope:ThePoliticsofIdentityintheEasternEnlargement
oftheEuropeanUnion.AndGlobalForce,ConnectionsorVision?TheThreeRolesof
EuropeinPostsocialism.EuropeanSymposiaoftheCenterforGerman&European
StudiesandtheEuropeanStudiesConsortiumattheUniversityofMinnesota.Minneapolis,
February2324,2004.
_____.2003.PanelistonFieldworkAcrosstheDisciplines.IPRH(UIUC).April1,2003.
_____.2002.Context,field,andvision:ThethreerolesofEuropeinpostsocialism.
InternationalConferenceConflictDimensionsofTransnationalisation.Rauischholzhausen,
Germany,July46,2002.
_____.2002.CinderellasofEurope:thepoliticsofbodyandnatureinpostsocialism.
DepartmentofAnthropology,UniversityofChicago.
_____.2002.Fromthemetallicbodiesofcommunismtothesicklybodiesofpostcommunism:
Anemergingagendaforhistoricalresearch.RussianandEastEuropeanCenter,University
ofIllinois,UrbanaChampaign.
Gille,ZsuzsaandMunro,William.2001.Globalization:SociologyandPoliticalEconomy.
UnitforCriticismandInterpretiveTheory,UIUC.CriticismSeminaronPostcolonialism.
November26.
_____.2001.FromtheCultofWastetotheTrashHeapofHistory:ASocialTheoryofWaste.
MeetingoftheSocioculturalAnthropologyWorkshop,UIUC.October5.
______.1997.StateandSocietyinHungarianWastePolitics:ALocal,Historical
Perspective.PresentedattheworkshopoftheEconomicDevelopmentWorkingGroupof
SocialCapitalandPublicAffairsProjectoftheAmericanAcademyofArtsandSciences.
Sustainability,DegradationandLivelihoodinThirdWorldUrbanEnvironments.December,
Marshall,CA.
______.1997.ConceptionsofWasteandtheProductionofWastelands:Hungarysince
1948.PresentedattheAnnualMeetingoftheAmericanSociologicalAssociationSection
onPoliticalEconomyandWorldSociety,TheGlobalEnvironmentandtheWorldSystem,
April,SantaCruz,CA.
Lipschutz,Ronnie,D.andZsuzsaGille.1994.EnvironmentalHistory,SociologyandPolicy:
SomeOrganizationalQuestions.(Addresstotheworkshop.)WorkshoponEnvironmental
History,Sociology,andPolicyoftheUniversityofCalifornia,SantaCruz,May,SantaCruz,
CA.
Gille,Zsuzsa.1992.TheInvisibleBackScratchingHandofStateSocialism:ThePatternof
NatureTransformationandtheConstructionofEnvironmentalDestructioninFormer
SocialistCountries.SemiannualconferenceoftheEuropeanPoliticalRelationsand
InstitutionsResearchGroupoftheCenterforGermanandEuropeanStudiesatthe
UniversityofCalifornia,Berkeley,October,Berkeley,CA.

InvitedDiscussant:
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Re/CyclingHistories:UsersandthePathstoSustainabilityinEverydayLife. RachelCarson
Center,Munich,Germany.May2729,2011.
RecyclingModernity:Waste,IdeologyandGlobalEnvironmentalTransformation.Compass
InterdisciplinaryVirtualConference.1930Oct2009.http://www.blackwell
compass.com/home_conference
AnnualMeetingoftheCouncilofEuropeanStudies.Panel:ConsumerRegimesandCulturesin
anEnlargedEurope.Chicago,March68,2008.
AnnualMeetingoftheAmericanAnthropologicalAssociation.Panel:RadicalandGradual
Globalization:PostsocialistCitizenshipReformsandtheProductionofEqualityand
Difference.WashingtonD.C.November28December2007
REEECAnnualConference,BuildingtheBalkansAnew:FromMetaphortoMarket.Panel:
Wealth,PrivateEnterprise,Marketing:RedefiningtheRegionin
anEuropeanFramework.UIUC,Urbana,September22,2007.

INTERVIEWS

Radio:
RadioStudent,Ljubljana,Slovenia.April2,2013.
http://www.radiostudent.si/druba/zeitgeist/osmetehinsmetovalcih

Television:
UniversityofIllinois.IllinoisInternational:TheFutureofWaste.UI7,TheUniversityChannel
onComcastchannel7.http://ensemble.atlas.uiuc.edu/app/sites/index.aspx?
destinationID=6u56xL9b9UeDgz8Az1fsJA&contentID=HnoQudIfVUKWrQHe5VZqbA&
pageIndex=1&pageSize=10

OTHERPRESENTATIONS

Gille,Zsuzsa.2012.TheAntiLiberalsofNeoliberalism:RightWingResistancetoStructural
Adjustment,EuroBailouts,andFreeTradeinHungary.AssociationforSlavic,East
European,andEurasianStudies(ASEEES).NewOrleans,November2012.
______.2012.AtransEuropeanpublicsociology?ComparingresponsestotheGreekdebt
crisis.AmericanSociologicalAssociation.Denver,August,2012.
_____.Thematerialfoundationsofwasteethics.AmericanAssociationofGeographers,
AnnualConference.February25,2012.
_____.2008.WasteRegimesofStateandPostsocialism.PaperpresentedattheRoyal
GeographersSocietyinLondon,August2008.
_____.2007.CulturesofWasteandIdeologiesofMaterialisminStateSocialism.Paper
presentedatthe106thAnnualMeetingoftheAmericanAnthropologicalAssociation,
WashingtonD.C.November28December2007.
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_____.2007.Whatisthepostinpostsocialism?Theimplicationsofpostcolonialtheoryfor
postsocialiststudies.PaperpresentedattheAnnualMeetingoftheAmericanAssociation
fortheAdvancementofSlavicStudies.NewOrleans,November1518,2007.
Gille,ZsuzsaandRobertPahre.2006.TrashingCentralEurope:ThePoliticalEconomyof
WastePoliciesinHungaryandtheEuropeanUnion.PresentedbyRobertPahreatthe
MidwestPoliticalScienceAssociation,Chicago,April22,2006.
Gille,Zsuzsa.2006.SummaryRoundtablefortheconference:PostcommunistNostalgia.UIUC.
April78.
_____.2005.TeachinonHurricaneKatrina,UIUC.September,2005.
_____.2005.Waste:Thehybridobjectofhistory.TECHNONATURESIII.Environments,
Technologies,SpacesandPlacesintheTwentyFirstCentury,37thWorldCongressofthe
InternationalInstituteofSociology,Stockholm,Sweden,July6th9th2005.
_____.2005.ThePolishPeasantasGlobalEthnography?TheZnanieckiConferenceatthe
UniversityofIllinoisatUrbanaChampaign.April21,2005.
_____.2004.OperationalizingFreedomintheEuropeanUnion:CreatingtheHomoEuropaeus
ThroughConsumption.PaperpresentedfortheConferenceofEuropeanists,Councilfor
EuropeanStudies,Chicago,1113March2004.
_____.2003.PlacemakingprojectsandinstitutionalizationintheEasternEnlargementofthe
EuropeanUnion.PresentedattheAnnualMeetingoftheAmericanSociological
Association.August1619,2003,Atlanta,Georgia.
_____.2003.DetachedFlowsorGroundedPlaceMakingProjects?Presentedatthe
conference:GoverningEnvironmentalFlows:ReinventingtheStateinGlobalModernity.
June1215,2003.Wageningen,TheNetherlands.
_____.2003.ThePigthatDiedforEurope:MakingHungariansintoEuropeans.Presentedat
theconference:EUtopia:EnlargementandthePoliticsofEuropeanIdentity.April1012,
2003.UniversityofIllinois,UrbanaChampaign.
_____.2002.EcologicalDemodernizationinPostsocialistHungary:TheRoleofDisposability
inSmoothingtheMarketTransition.TheEnvironmentandSustainableDevelopmentinthe
NewCentralEurope:AustriaandItsNeighbors.CenterforAustrianStudies,Universityof
Minnesota,TwinCities,September1821,2002.
Gille,Zsuzsa.2001.WhatisGlobalization?CenterforAdvancedStudy,UIUC.October16.
_____.2001.CinderellasofEurope:Waste,FoodandCleanlinessinPostsocialistPolitics.
ConferenceoftheEuropeanSociologicalAssociation.Helsinki,Finland.August28
September1.
_____.2001.SocialandSpatialInequalitiesinHungarianEnvironmentalPolitics:AHistorical
Perspective.AnnualMeetingoftheAmericanSociologicalAssociation.Anaheim,CA.
August1722.
_____.2001.Introduction.SemiannualworkshopoftheTransnationalStudiesSeminarofthe
SociologyDepartment,UIUC.April1213,2001.
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_____.2001.CinderellasofEurope:Waste,FoodandCleanlinessinPostsocialistPolitics.The
symposiumFromtheInternationaletotheTransnational:RepositioningSocialistand
PostSocialistCultures,UniversityofCalifornia,Berkeley,February1617.
_____.2000.StudyingGlobalizationCritically,TowardsaNewConceptofSite.Semiannual
workshopoftheTransnationalStudiesSeminaroftheSoicologyDepartment,UIUC.
September.
_____.2000.EuropeintheSymbolismofPostsocialistPolitics.Midwestsectionofthe
AmericanAssociationfortheAdvancementofSlavicStudies,UniversityofIllinoisat
UrbanaChampaign,April1.
______.1998.EnvironmentsinTransition:EcologicalModernizationorDemodernizationin
Postsocialism.PresentedattheAnnualMeetingoftheAmericanSociologicalAssociation,
August,SanFrancisco,CA.
______.1997.DisciplineandRecycle:ThePoliticsofWasteinSocialistHungary.Presented
attheNewDirectionsintheStudyofEastEuropeanStateSocialismGraduateStudent
WorkshopofTheProgramfortheStudyofGermanyandEuropeatHarvardUniversity,
November,Cambridge,MA.
______.1997.CognitiveCartographyinaEuropeanWasteland.PresentedattheAnnual
MeetingoftheAmericanSociologicalAssociation,August,Toronto,Canada.
______.1995.TheoriesofTransition:TheoriesinTransition?PresentedattheAnnual
MeetingoftheEuropeanSociologicalAssociation,August,Budapest,Hungary.
______.1992.TheInvisibleBackScratchingHandofStateSocialism:ThePatternofNature
TransformationandtheConstructionofEnvironmentalDestructioninFormerSocialist
Countries.AnnualSymposiumoftheInternationalSociologicalAssociationEnvironment
andSocietySection,CurrentDevelopmentsinEnvironmentalSociology,June,
Woudschoten,TheNetherlands.

PROFESSIONALAFFILIATIONS

AmericanAssociationfortheAdvancementofSlavicStudies
AmericanSociologicalAssociation
AssociationofAmericanGeographers
SOYUZ,thePostCommunistCulturalStudiesInterestGroupoftheAmericanAnthropological
Association

FOREIGNLANGUAGES

NativefluencyinHungarian,conversationalfluencyinSpanish,readingwithdictionaryinRussian.
MainworkinglanguageisEnglish.
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CITIZENSHIP

U.S.since1994.