Jessica Allina-Pisano

Ph.D. in Political Science, Yale University, 2003
Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Ottawa
Center Associate, Davis Center

Contact Information
jallinap@uottawa.ca
613.562.5800 ext. 1394

Research Interests
Property rights, post-socialist institutional change, identity and political economy, and borderlands ethnography in Russia, Ukraine, and Hungary

Current Projects
"Legitimizing Facades: The Politics of Post-Socialist Institutional Change"; "The Last Barbed-Wire Fence in Europe: Political Economy in the Borderlands of Empire, 1938-2008"

Selected Publications
Allina-Pisano, J. The Post-Soviet Potemkin Village: Politics and Property Rights in the Black Earth (Cambridge University Press, 2008), 248 pp.

Allina-Pisano, J., Property: What is it good for? Social Research, 76:1 (Spring 2009) 175-202.

Allina-Pisano, J., From Iron Curtain to Golden Curtain: Remaking Identity in the European Union Borderlands, East European Politics and Societies, 23:2 (May 2009) 266-290.

Allina-Pisano, J. How to Tell an Axe Murderer: An Essay on Ethnography, Truth, and Lies, in Edward Schatz (ed.), Political Ethnography: What Immersion Contributes to the Study of Power (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, forthcoming 2009).

Allina-Pisano, J. Klychkov i Pustota: Post-Soviet Bureaucrats and the Production of Institutional Facades, in Thomas Lahusen and Peter Solomon (eds.), What is Soviet Now? Identities, Legacies, Memories (London: LIT Verlag, 2007). 40-56.