Polish Studies Center

Phone:

(812) 855-6303

Email:

elcdunn@indiana.edu

Department:

Core Faculty

Campus:

IU Bloomington

Elizabeth Dunn is a geographer who looks at the bureaucratic management of labor, displacement, and food in postsocialist Eastern Europe. She works in Poland and the Republic of Georgia. Her first book, Privatizing Poland, focused on workers in one of the first state-owned factories to be privatized after the fall of the Berlin Wall and asked how techniques ranging from audit to quality control reshaped ideas about personhood among the firm’s employees and helped create the necessary cultural underpinnings for a market economy. Dunn is currently working on a book about bureaucratic practices of global humanitarianism based on fieldwork conducted in a settlement for people ethnically cleansed during the 2008 Russo-Georgian War.