Kristen R. Ghodsee

About the Author

Kristen R. Ghodsee is professor of Russian and East European Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Her eight books on gender, socialism, and post-socialism in Eastern Europe have been translated into nineteen languages. Ghodsee’s writing has been published in the Washington Post, New York Times, and Le Monde Diplomatique, among other outlets. She’s appeared on the PBS NewsHour and France 24 as well as on many podcasts, including NPR’s Throughline and The Ezra Klein Show. She lives outside Philadelphia.