# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kristen-r-ghodsee
# Generated: 2026-08-15T20:14:12.381Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kristen-r-ghodsee"
name: "Kristen R. Ghodsee"
slug: "kristen-r-ghodsee"
description: "Kristen Rogheh Ghodsee is an American ethnographer and Professor of Russian and East European Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She is primarily known for her ethnographic work on post-Communist Bulgaria as well as being a contributor to the field of postsocialist gender studies. She was critical of the role of Western feminist nongovernmental organizations doing work among East European women in the 1990s. She has also examined the shifting gender relations of Muslim minorities after Communist rule, the intersections of Islamic beliefs and practices with the ideological remains of Marxism–Leninism, communist nostalgia, the legacies of Marxist feminism, and the intellectual history of utopianism."
tagline: "American ethnographer and professor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Kristen_Ghodsee_Podium_2.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1970-04-26"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.109758666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://kristenghodsee.com"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "كريستين غودسي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Kristen Ghodsee"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristen_Ghodsee"
    title: "Kristen Ghodsee"
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    title: "Годси, Кристен"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump