Gail Kligman

Professor, Director of the Center for European and Eurasian Studies
Department: Sociology
264 Haines Hall
Los Angeles, CA 90095
Campus mailcode: 155103
Tel: 310-206-7277
gkligman@international.ucla.edu
Personal Website

Keywords: Cultural Studies, Europe, Women's Studies

Kligman's expertise spans the domains of women's studies, anthropology, and cultural studies. She is the recipient of the Chicago Folklore Prize (1982) for her book Calus: Symbolic Transformation in Romanian Ritual; and has won the Heldt Prize of the Association for Women in Slavic Studies twice, in 1998 for The Politics of Duplicity: Controlling Reproduction in Ceausescu's Romania, and in 2001 for The Politics of Gender after Socialism: A Comparative-Historical Essay (with Susan Gal). She has received many prestigious grants, including from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Woodrow Wilson Center, the MacArthur International Peace and Cooperation Fellowship, the Soros Foundation, and, most recently, a Russell Sage Foundation grant for 2004-05.