MGSA Survey of University Faculty and Administrators

Asst. Prof. Chrisy Moutsatsos

Assistant Professor

Iowa State University

Department of Anthropology and Women's Studies



I. Degrees

Ph.D. Social Science, University of California, Irvine, 2001
M.A. Social Science, University of California, Irvine, 1994
B.A. Anthropology, with "High Distinction," University of Nevada, Reno, 1991


II. Areas of Specialization

Globalization and transnational capitalism; feminist theory of the body and the politics of femininity; transnational processes of consumption and the circulation of commodities; the social imagining of class; the processes and practices of national identity construction; race and power.

III. Courses Taught in Modern Greek Studies

Not provided


IV. Principal Publications (Greek words are given in transliteration)

Global Gaze, Local Bodies: an Ethnography of Consumption and Femininity in Urban Greece. Revising for publication by Duke University Press.

"Empowerment and National/Transnational Boundary Imaginings Among Urban Greek Women Cosmetic Products Distributors," special of issue of Identities, editor Ara Wilson, Ohio State University. (in preparation)

"Globalization and Labor: An Introduction." In preparation for The Way We Work and it's Impact on Our Health, Eds. Peter Schnall, et al. (in preparation)

Gender and Power in Greece in the New Millennium. Edited volume, with Nia Georges, Rice University. (in preparation)


V. Office Address

Iowa State University

Department of Anthropology and Women's Studies

Iowa State University

319A Curtiss Hall

Ames, Iowa 50011


Office Telephone (F)=Fax

(515) 294-0561

Electronic Address

[email protected]

VI. Home Address

(no information submitted)

Home Telephone (F)=Fax

(no information submitted)



VII. Comments and Additional Information

(no information submitted)

Last revised July 9, 2006


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