ALEXANDRA HRYCAK

Associate Professor

 
Sociology Department
Reed College
3203 SE Woodstock Blvd.
Portland, OR 97202

Office: Vollum College Center 223
Phone: (503) 517-7483
Fax: (503) 777-7776
Email: hrycak@reed.edu

B.A., Rutgers University, 1988
M.A., Sociology, University of Chicago, 1991
Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1998
Reed College 1998-

Research

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• "Seeing Orange: Women’s Activism and Ukraine’s Orange Revolution," Women’s Studies Quarterly, Vol. 35 (Fall/Winter 2007): 208-25.
• "From Global to Local Feminisms: Transnationalism, Foreign Aid and the Women’s Movement in Ukraine," accepted for publication in Advances in Gender Research, Vol. 11 (forthcoming 2007).
• "Gender and the Orange Revolution," Journal of Communist Studies & Transition Politics Vol. 23, No.1 (March 2007): 152-179.
• "Foundation Feminism and the Articulation of Hybrid Feminisms in Post-Socialist Ukraine." East European Politics and Societies 20 (2006): 69-100.
• "Institutional Legacies and Language Revival in Ukraine." Chapter 2 in Rebounding Identities, edited by Blair Ruble and Dominique Arel (Johns Hopkins, 2006).
• "Coping with Chaos: Gender and Politics in a Fragmented State," Problems of Post-Communism (September-October 2005): 69-81.
• "From Mothers' Rights to Equal Rights: Post-Soviet Grassroots Women’s Associations." Chapter 5 in Women's Community Activism and Globalization: Linking the Local and Global for Social Change, edited by Nancy Naples and Manisha K. Desai (Routledge, 2002).
• "The Dilemmas of Civic Revival: Ukrainian Women since Independence." Journal of Ukrainian Studies 26 (2001) 135-158.
• "The Coming of ‘Chrysler Imperial’: Ukrainian Youth and Rituals of Resistance," Harvard Ukrainian Studies 21 (1997): 63-91.
• "Measuring Resemblance in Sequence Data: An Optimal Matching Analysis of Musicians' Careers," (with Andrew Abbott) American Journal of Sociology 96 (July 1990): 144-85.

Courses Taught at Reed College

Sociology 211: Introduction to Sociology
Sociology 280: Social Movements - Syllabus (PDF)
Sociology 353: Social Stratification
Sociology 357: Political Sociology
Sociology 363: Sociology of Culture - Syllabus (PDF)