Dr. Krista M. Harper

I have conducted ethnographic research in Hungary, Portugal, and the United States. My current project examines environmental activists over the course of the transformation from state socialism in Hungary. In my next project, I will investigate the public health and environmental issues of Hungarian Roma (Gypsies). General teaching and research interests include: environmentalism and other social movements, political culture, postsocialist societies, consumption and advertising, medical anthropology, and public health.

2003 "Food and Foodways in Post-Socialist Eurasia" (with Barbara West) Anthropology of East Europe Review, 21(1).

2003 "Green Carnivores, Mad Cows, and Gene Tech: The Politics of Food in Hungarian Environmentalism" Anthropology of East Europe Review, 21(1).

2001a "Introduction: The Environment as Master Narrative: Discourse and Identity in Environmental Conflicts," Anthropological Quarterly, 74(3).

2001b "Chernobyl Stories and Anthropological Shock in Hungary," Anthropological Quarterly 74(3).

2001c "Citizen Sensibilities: Comparing Grassroots Environmental Activism in Finland and Hungary" (with Eeva Berglund), Anthropology of East Europe Review 19(1).

2001d "The Tisza Chemical Spill," in History in Dispute: Global Water Issues, Char Miller, ed. (Columbia, SC: Bruccoli Clark Layman). In press.

1999 "Citizens or Consumers? Environmentalism and the Public Sphere in Postsocialist Hungary," Radical History Review, Issue #74 on "Environmental Politics and Human Geographies."

1998 "Nemzeti Parkok és Nemzeti Identitás" ("National Parks and National Identity"), in Turizmus Mint Kulturális Rendszer (Tourism as Cultural System), Zoltán Fejös, ed. Budapest: Ethnographic Museum.

Anthropology of Environmentalism (Fall 2001)
Health and Habitat (Fall 2001)
Culture Through Film (Spring 2002)
Anthropology and Public Policy (Spring 2002)

Introduction to Anthropology (Fall 2002 and Spring 2003)
Anthropology of Development (Fall 2002)
Anthropology of Globalization (Spring 2003)
Ethnography of Eastern Europe (Spring 2003)