Anatoly M. Khazanov
Anthropology, Room 5408 Social Science
Office: 608-262-4343; 608-262-2866
khazanov@wisc.edu
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2008 / 2009 - Anatoly M. Khazanov (Anthropology and Russian, East European, and Central Asia Studies) was named the Ernest Gellner Professor of Anthropology in 1997. He is also a Fellow of the British Academy and an honorary member of the Central Eurasian Society. In 2001 he received an award from the Federation of Jewish Communities in Russia “for great contribution to the struggle for national rights of the Jews of the Soviet Union.” He has published and edited 16 books and volumes and is the author of more than 200 articles and other publications. Among his monographs are The Krymchaks. A Vanishing Jewish Group in the Soviet Union (Jerusalem, 1994), and After the USSR: Ethnicity, Nationalism, and Politics in the Commonwealth of Independent States (Madison, 1995). His current main interests include Jews of Eastern and Central Europe, new anti-Semitism, post-totalitarianism and ethnicity and nationalism.
