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Martha
Lampland (Sociology)
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Profile The impact of scientific thinking on social practices and knowledges; European cultural history; social theory; political economy; ethnography, social history; Central Europe, especially Hungary. Author of The Object of Labor: Commodification in Socialist Hungary (Chicago, 1995) and articles including "The Advantages of Being Collectivized: Cooperative Farm Managers in the Postsocialist Economy" (2002), "Corvée, Maps and Contracts: Agricultural Policy and the Rise of the Modern State in Hungary during the 19th Century" (1998), "Family Portraits: Gendered Images of the Nation in 19th Century Hungary" (1994), "Pigs, Party Secretaries, and Private Lives" (1991), "The Politics of History: Historical Consciousness of 1847-1849 (1990), "Unthinkable Subjects: Women and Labor in Socialist Hungary" (1990). She has also co-edited an anthology with Daphne Berdahl and Matti Bunzl entitled Altering States: Ethnographies of Transition in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union (Univ. of Michigan, 2000). She is currently editing a book with Leigh Star on issues of quantification, standardization and formal representation. Professor Lampland is writing a book on experiments with wage policies in agriculture during the interwar and Stalinist period in Hungary, considering how scientific management theories move within Europe and across political boundaries and economic systems. |
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