Dace Dzenovska

Dace is Associate Professor in the Anthropology of Migration at the University of Oxford and the Principal Investigator of the EMPTINESS project. She holds doctoral and master’s degrees in Social Cultural Anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley, as well as an interdisciplinary master’s degree in Humanities and Social Thought from New York University. Currently, she is researching the emptying towns and villages in Eastern Europe and Russia in order to understand what it means to live in and govern emptying places, as well as what such places can tell about how flows of capital and shifts in political authority are reconfiguring the world we live in.

EMPTINESS project: https://emptiness.eu/

Dace’s website at the University of Oxford’s Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS): https://www.compas.ox.ac.uk/people/dace-dzenovska/