Gail Kligman

Este profesor in cadrul Departamentului de Sociologie de la University of California, Los Angeles. A predat antropologie la University of Chicago si University of Texas, Austin; a detinut \"Ion Ratiu\" Visiting Chair of Romanian Studies in cadrul Departamentului de Government la Georgetown University. Preocuparile sale stiintifice vizeaza domenii ca sociologia politica, antropologia culturala, etnologia, indeosebi in spatiul central si est-european (in anii '70 si '80 a facut numeroase stagii de documentare si cercetare in Romania, mai ales in Maramures; in 1998 a devenit cetatean de onoare al comunei Ieud). Gail Kligman face parte din consiliul editorial al unor reviste de prestigiu: Slavic Review, East European Politics and Societies, Theory and Society, Sfera Politicii etc.); a condus prooiecte de cercetare la Wilson Center, Center for European Studies, Harvard University, Center for Russian and East European Studies, University of California, Berkeley, Collegium Budapest. A organizat numeroase colocvii si conferinte.

Carti:
Calus: Symbolic transformation in Romanian ritual (1981)
The wedding of the dead: ritual, poetics, and popular culture in Transylvania (1988)
The politics of gender after socialism (2000)
Reproducing gender: politics, publics, and everyday life after socialism (2000)