Dr. Elena Ermolaeva
Dr. Ermolaeva received her Ph.D. in Sociology from from Johns Hopkins University in 1997. She also has M.A. from Johns Hopkins in 1991 and Ph.D. equivalent from the Institute of Sociology Russian Academy of Sciences in 1989. She completed her BA degree from Moscow State University in 1983. She is the author of numerous articles published in Russia on the topics of methodology, ethnicity, and family. Her teaching interests are in social inequality, including Race and Ethnicity, Class differences, and Sex and Gender. Elena's research interests focus on two areas. The first one is political economy of pre-industrial settings. She is currently preparing for publication a manuscript about Hawaiian chiefdoms and how cultural differentiation among islands served as a competitive advantage in search for power. Elena's second area of interest is class, ethnicity, and gender. Her most recent research interests revolve around employment trajectories of foreign born faculty of US colleges and universities.
