Born and raised in Siberia, he has studied history, political theory, gender, and anthropology in Russia, Canada, Hungary, and the U.S. Oushakine’s current research examines transitional periods in Russia’s twentieth-century history and explores cultural manifestations of identity in Soviet and contemporary Russia. His English-language articles have appeared in The Russian Review; American Anthropologist; Cultural Anthropology; Public Culture; Ethnos; Theory, Culture, & Society; and Europe-Asia Studies. He has published widely in Russian academic journals in the fields of philosophy, sociology, ethnology and politics. His book, The Patriotism of Despair: Nation, War, and Loss, will be published by Cornell University Press in spring 2009.