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Daina Stukuls Eglitis

Assistant Professor of Sociology and International Affairs

Phillips 409
801 22nd Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20052

Phone: (202) 994-1515
Fax: (202) 994-3239
E-mail: daina@gwu.edu

Education:

Ph.D., University of Michigan

Expertise:

Classical and contemporary social theory, feminist theory, social stratification in newly capitalist and advanced capitalist states, women and social change

Background:

After receiving her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1998, Professor Eglitis joined George Washington University as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology. In 2001, she became a regular member of the Sociology faculty.

Professor Eglitis' research has, to this point, focused largely on the social dimensions of postcommunist transformations in Eastern Europe. She is especially interested in the ways in which transformation has affected women in the region and the ways in which women have responded to the dramatic changes of the last decade. She is also interested in poverty and class inequality in both the newly-capitalist states of Eastern Europe and modern capitalist states like those in the West.

Professor Eglitis is the author of Imagining the Nation: History, Modernity and Revolution in Latvia (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2002). She is currently working on an introductory textbook, Discovering Sociology, coauthored with William J. Chambliss. The text offers students an engaging and theoretically- and empirically-rigorous introduction to sociology and the sociological imagination. Discovering Sociology wil be published by Wasdworth Press in 2006.

Professor Eglitis' publications include: "Latvia," chapter in Sharon L. Wolchik and Jane Curry (eds.), Democracy, The Market, and Back to Europe (McGraw-Hill, forthcoming in 2005); "Means of Consumption," "Means of Production," and "Enchantment/Disenchantment," entries in George Ritzer (ed.), Encyclopedia of Social Theory (Sage Publications, 2004); "The Uses of Global Poverty: How the West Benefits From Economic Inequality," in Seeing Ourselves: Classic, Contemporary, and Cross-Cultural Readings in Sociology, 6th edition, Nijole Benokraitis and John Macionis (eds.), (Prentice Hall, 2003); "Postcommunist Transformation and Sociodemographic Change: An Analysis of the Decline in Marriage and the Rise in Non-Marital Births in Latvia," National Council for Eurasian and East European Research (NCEEER) Working Paper (2001); and "Body of the Nation: Mothering, Prostitution, and the Place of Women in Postcommunist Latvia" in Slavic Review, Vol. 58, no. 3.

Professor Eglitis is a member of the American Sociological Association (ASA), the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS), and the Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies (AABS). She is fluent in Latvian and has some knowledge of Russian and German.

Courses Taught:

Soc 1 Introduction to Sociology
Soc 104 Modern Social Theory
Soc 170 Class and Inequality in American Society
Soc 175 Sociology of Sex and Gender
Soc 239 Modern Social Theory

Last update: 07.10.08