Elizabeth Cullen Dunn

Dunn holds a Ph.D. in anthropology from Johns Hopkins University (1998).

Dunn’s work investigates governance, the state, and the ways in which these processes strive to produce governable subjects. She investigates these topics by examining the ways they are manifest in people’s lived experiences. Though all Dunn’s work deals with these topics, thematically, it can be divided into three bodies of literature: on foreign direct investment (FDI) in Poland and the former Eastern Bloc more broadly; on global food safety regulation; and, most recently, on forced migration.

Dunn accepted a fellowship at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin from 1999-2000. Later that year, she received a joint appointment as assistant professor in the Department of Geography and the Program in International Affairs at the University of Colorado in Boulder, CO. In 2006 she accepted a fellowship to Yale University’s Center for Agrarian Studies. She remained in her position as assistant professor until 2008, when she was promoted to the position of associate professor in the same departments at University of Colorado. In 2014, Dunn moved to her position as Associate Professor in the Departments of Geography and International Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington. In 2015, she received a fellowship at Copenhagen University’s Department of Comparative Cultural and Regional Studies.[1]

• Dunn, E. (2004) Privatizing Poland: Baby Food, Big Business, and the Remaking of Labor. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. (In Polish translation, Prywatyzujac Polske, 2008, Warsaw: Krytyka Polityczna).[2]