Kristen Ghodsee
Ethnographer and university professor
Kristen R. Ghodsee is an ethnographer and a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, where she works in Russian and East European Studies. She wrote Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism.
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American Born 1970 in the United States
About Kristen Ghodsee
Kristen Ghodsee is an American ethnographer who teaches at the University of Pennsylvania, where she also belongs to the Graduate Group in Anthropology. She is best known for her fieldwork on post-Communist Bulgaria and for her contributions to postsocialist gender studies. Her research has also looked at Muslim minorities after Communist rule, communist nostalgia, the legacies of Marxist feminism, and the history of utopian thought. Her 2018 book Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism has appeared in 15 languages. Her essays have run in The New York Times, Foreign Affairs, Jacobin and Dissent, and she hosts a podcast, A.K. 47, about the Bolshevik Alexandra Kollontai.