Dr. Douglas Rogers

Biography

Douglas Rogers is a Professor and Chair at the Department of Anthropology at Yale University. His research focuses on political, economic, and historical anthropology, with specific interests in natural resources such as oil, energy, and corporations. He also explores science and technology studies, anthropology of religion, ethics, and socialist societies with a particular focus on postsocialist trajectories. Rogers has conducted extensive archival ethnographic research in Russia, resulting in several award-winning publications including 'Old Faith in the Russian Land: Historical Ethnography and Ethics in the Urals' (Cornell, 2009) and 'Depths of Russia: Oil, Power, Culture and Socialism' (Cornell, 2015). He directed Yale's Program in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies from 2018 to 2021, where he managed grants aimed at enhancing the study of these areas at Yale. Rogers is currently working on a book titled 'Eating Oil: An Earthly History' that investigates how microbes metabolize hydrocarbons and the complex relationships among humans, states, and corporations in various geographic contexts. He obtained his B.A. from Middlebury College, an M.Phil. in Social and Cultural Anthropology from Oxford University, and a Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Michigan.

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