Ed Snajdr
My research interests include urban redevelopment, violence, ethnicity, gender, human trafficking, environmentalism, and the application of anthropological perspectives in the fields of development, law and social justice - broadly defined. I am also exploring the role of technology in the public and private spheres of cultural systems. I have fieldwork experience in post-socialist states including Slovakia, Kazakhstan, and Bosnia, as well as in the U.S. My research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, U.S. Department of State, Fulbright IIIE, International Research & Exchanges Board (IREX), and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).
My book Nature Protests: The End of Ecology After Communism (U Washington Press) examines the dynamics of environmental activism in the political history of Slovakia. My most recent article, in Dialectical Anthropology (snrg-nyc.org), analyzes the value of ethnographic perspectives on human trafficking in the context of master discourses about this global problem. Other publications include articles on Islam, domestic violence and ethnicity which appear in American Ethnologist, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, and Problems of Post-Communism, among others. My recent book chapters include “Developing Discursive Ground: Exploring Activism and Territoriality in Slovakia’s Environmental Movement from Communism to Cyberspace” In Allan C. Dawson, Laura Zanotti and Ismael Vaccaro (eds.), Negotiating Territoriality: Spatial Dialogues between State and Tradition (2014), and "Culture and Crime" in International Crime and Justice (Cambridge U Press - 2011) - Mangai Natarajan, ed.
I am presently working on a book and several articles with Shonna Trinch (Anthropology) on the dynamics of place making and urban change in the framework of the Atlantic Yards/Pacific Park Project in Brooklyn, New York, with funding from the National Science Foundation.
I am currently the coordinator for the major in Culture and Deviance Studies at John Jay College and also direct several undergraduate independent study projects, including a Seigel Fellow Honors Thesis.
My book Nature Protests: The End of Ecology After Communism (U Washington Press) examines the dynamics of environmental activism in the political history of Slovakia. My most recent article, in Dialectical Anthropology (snrg-nyc.org), analyzes the value of ethnographic perspectives on human trafficking in the context of master discourses about this global problem. Other publications include articles on Islam, domestic violence and ethnicity which appear in American Ethnologist, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, and Problems of Post-Communism, among others. My recent book chapters include “Developing Discursive Ground: Exploring Activism and Territoriality in Slovakia’s Environmental Movement from Communism to Cyberspace” In Allan C. Dawson, Laura Zanotti and Ismael Vaccaro (eds.), Negotiating Territoriality: Spatial Dialogues between State and Tradition (2014), and "Culture and Crime" in International Crime and Justice (Cambridge U Press - 2011) - Mangai Natarajan, ed.
I am presently working on a book and several articles with Shonna Trinch (Anthropology) on the dynamics of place making and urban change in the framework of the Atlantic Yards/Pacific Park Project in Brooklyn, New York, with funding from the National Science Foundation.
I am currently the coordinator for the major in Culture and Deviance Studies at John Jay College and also direct several undergraduate independent study projects, including a Seigel Fellow Honors Thesis.