Dr. Zsuzsa Gille

Biography

Zsuzsa Gille is a Professor Emerita in the Department of Sociology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She obtained her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of California at Santa Cruz in 1999. Her research interests include qualitative methodology and the relationship between globalization, environmental politics, food sociology, waste, materiality, and the rise of the New Right in Europe. Gille has served as the Chair of the Global Transnational Sociology section of the American Sociological Association and has been involved with the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies. She has contributed to the editorial boards of notable journals including Ethnography and the American Sociological Association’s Rose Series. Her publications explore themes related to materiality in the European Union and include works such as 'Paprika, Foie Gras, Red Mud: Politics of Materiality in the European Union' and 'Cult Waste: Trash Heap History'. Gille has also been a guest editor for thematic clusters in the Slavic Review and has researched the impacts of the New Right in postsocialist contexts. Her teaching portfolio highlights her courses in environmental sociology, globalization, and contemporary sociological theory. Gille’s work emphasizes the empirical study of local-global relations and the material dimensions of political and social transformations in postsocialist Europe.

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