 Daina Stukuls Eglitis
Assistant Professor of Sociology and International Affairs,
Undergraduate Program Coordinator
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.
Primary Research and Teaching Interests
Classical and Contemporary Social Theory, Feminist Theory, Social Stratification in Newly Capitalist and Advanced Capitalist States, Women and Social Change
Selected Publications
"Consumption" entry in William A. Darity (ed.), International Encyclodpedia of the Socioal Sciences, 2nd Edition (Macmillan Reference/Thomson Gale, forthcoming).
"Theorizing the Evolution of Revolution: The Case of Latvia in the 1980s and 1990s," chapter in Detlef Henning (ed.), Revolution in Nordost Europa (Nord-Ost Institut, Luneburg, Germany, forthcoming).
"The Baltic States," chapter in Sharon L. Wolchik and Jane Curry (eds.), Democracy, the Market, and Back to Europe (McGraw-Hihll, forthcoming).
2005. "Latvia: The Changing Face of AIDS," with Jolanta Cihanovica, at Transitions Online magazine (www.tol.cz), May 19.
2004. "Means of Consumption," "Means of Production," and "Enchantment/Disenchantment" entries in Encyclopedia of Social Theory, George Ritzer (ed.) (Sage Publications).
2003. "Latvia," in Women in Europe, Lynn Walters (ed.) (Greenwood Press).
2003. "The Uses of Global Poverty: How the West Benefits from Economic Inequality," in Seeing Ourselves: Classic, Contemporary, and Cross-Cultural Readings in Sociology, sixth edition, Nijole Benokraitis and John Macionis (eds.) (Prentice-Hall).
2002. Imagining the Nation: History, Modernity and Revolution in Latvia. Pennsylvania State University Press.
2001. "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).
1999. "Body of the Nation: Mothering, Prostitution, and the Place of Women in Postcommunist Latvia" in Slavic Review, Vol. 58, no. 3.
Current Projects
Book Manuscript: Discovering Sociology
This introductory textbook, co-authored with William J. Chambliss, is currently in progress. The text offers students an engaging and theoretically- and empirically-rigorous introduction to sociology and the sociological imagination.
Courses Taught
SOC 001: Introduction to Sociology
SOC 104: Modern Social Theory
SOC 170: Class and Inequality in American Society
SOC 175: Sociology of Sex and Gender
SOC 238: Classical Sociological Theory
SOC 801: Wealth, Poverty and Inequality in Washington, DC
SOC 801: Sociology of AIDS
Contact Information
dainas@gwu.edu
202-994-1515
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