Publications - Bruce Grant
Satire and Political Imagination in the Caucasus: The Sense and Sensibilities of Molla Nasreddin Acta Slavica Iaponica 40 (2020): 1-18.
Missing Links: Indigenous Life and Evolutionary Thought in the History of Russian Ethnography. Berichte zu Wissenschaftsgeschicte 43 (2020): 119-140.
The Edifice Complex: Architecture and the Political Life of Surplus in the New Baku, Public Culture, 26, no. 3, (2014): 501-528.
We Are All Eurasian, NewsNet: Bulletin of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies 52, no. 1 (2012): 1-6.
Recognizing Soviet Culture, in Reconstructing the House of Culture, Joachim Otto Habeck and Brian Donahoe, eds. (New York: Berghahn Press, 2012), 263-276.
Shrines and Sovereigns: Life, Death, and Religion in Azerbaijan, Comparative Studies in Society and History 53, no. 3 (2011): 654-681.
Cosmopolitan Baku. Ethnos 75, no. 2 (2010): 123-147.
[Editor] The Russia Reader: History, Culture, Politics[with Adele Barker]. Durham: Duke University Press, 2010.
The Captive and the Gift: Cultural Histories of Sovereignty in Russia and the Caucasus. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2009.
*Honorable Mention for the Harvard Davis Center Book Prize in Political and Social Studies
[Editor] Caucasus Paradigms: Anthropologies, Histories, and the Making of a World Area [with Lale Yalçın-Heckmann]. Berlin: LIT, 2007.
The Good Russian Prisoner: Naturalizing Violence in the Caucasus Mountains. Cultural Anthropology 20, no. 1 (2005): 39-67.
"An Average Azeri Village" (1930). Slavic Review 63, no. 4 (2004): 705-731.
New Moscow Monuments, or, States of Innocence.American Ethnologist 28, no. 2 (2001): 332-362.
[Editor] The Social Organization of the Gilyak, by Lev Shternberg. New York and Seattle: American Museum of Natural History and the University of Washington Press, 1999.
[Editor] Neotraditionalism in the Russian North: Indigenous Peoples and the Legacy of Perestroika, by Aleksandr Pika. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1999.
"The Return of the Repressed: Conversations with Three Russian Entrepreneurs," in Paranoia within Reason: A Casebook on Conspiracy as Explanation, edited by George Marcus, 241-267. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999.
In the Soviet House of Culture: A Century of Perestroikas. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995.
*Winner of the Prize for Best First Book awarded by the American Ethnological Society, 1996.
"Dirges for Soviets Passed: Conversations with Six Russian Writers," in Perilous States: Conversations on Culture, Politics, and Nation, edited by George Marcus, 17-51. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993.
"Siberia Hot and Cold: Reconstructing the Image of Siberian Indigenous Peoples," in Between Heaven and Hell: The Myth of Siberia in Russian Culture, edited by Galya Diment and Yuri Slezkine, 227-253. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1992.n.