Margaret Paxson
Senior Associate , Kennan Institute (covering Russia and surrounding states)
Phone: 202/691-4100
Email: margaret.paxson@wilsoncenter.org

Affiliation Senior Associate Expertise Russia; rural society, culture, and economic organization; agrarian religion and traditional healing Experience Coordinator, designer, presenter, “Mayor William A. Johnson’s Biracial Partnerships for Community Progress,” Mayor’s Task Force on Race and Ethnicity, Rochester, NY; researcher for David Hoffman, chief of Washington Post Moscow Bureau for his book The Oligarchs (2002); consultant in organizational anthropology with Idea Connections

Major Publications | Education

Major Publications

• Solovyovo: The Story of Memory in a Russian Village (Woodrow Wilson Center Press and Indiana University Press, 2005)
  
• "Bearing Russia's Burdens," The Wilson Quarterly, Summer 2004
  
• “Letter from a Russian Village,” The Wilson Quarterly, Spring 2002
  
• “The Cultural Dimension: Social Organization and the Metaphysics of Exchange,” Rural Reform in Post-Soviet Russia, Woodrow Wilson Center Press and Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002
  
• “The Ghosts of War: Russia’s Sons Come Home from Chechnya,” Washington Post Magazine, December 17, 2000

Education
Ph.D., M.Sc., Anthropology, Université de Montréal; B.A., Anthropology, McGill University

Kennan Institute (covering Russia and surrounding states)
Woodrow Wilson Center
One Woodrow Wilson Plaza
1300 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20004-3027
Email: kennan@wilsoncenter.org
Tel: 202/691-4100