Russian Studies Workshop

Eliza Frenkel is a Ph.D. student in Sociocultural Anthropology with a minor in Jewish Studies. She received her M.A in in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Ben-Gurion University, Israel. Her M.A thesis dealt with the commemoration of Soviet terror in Post-Soviet Russia, focusing on the case of the “Last Address” (последний адрес) project in Saint Petersburg, Russia. She is also interested in material culture of post-soviet objects, and the diffusion and translation of cultural forms of commemoration from Western to Eastern Europe.

Eliza had an article published in Contemporary - Journal of Sociology at UFSCar, 11/1 (2021): "Installing a Biography: The Intertwined Pathway of a Last Address Memorial Plaque in Post-Soviet Russia."