Alexei Yurchak

Alexei Yurchak is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. He received his Ph.D. in cultural and linguistic anthropology from Duke University in 1997. He is the author of Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More: The Last Soviet Generation (Princeton, 2006), which won the 2007 Vucinich Book Prize for the most important contribution to Russian, Eurasian, and East European studies from AAASS. In 2015, the revised Russian edition of this book received Russia's prestigious "Prosvetitel" (Enlightener) Award for the best non-fiction book of the year in the humanities. His interests and areas of expertise include: Soviet history, present-day Russia, post-socialist transformations; political anthropology; the interface between language, discourse and power; anthropology of art and aesthetics; science and technology studies, anthropology of space.