Berkeley Writers at Work: 2005
Spring 2005: Professor Yuri Slezkine, History
Interviewed by Gail Offen-Brown, College Writing Programs
Selected Bibliography:
Books:
- The Jewish Century (Princeton UP, 2004)
- In the Shadow of Revolution: Life Stories of Russian Women from 1917 to the Second World War, coedited and translated, with an introduction (Princeton UP, 2000)
- Arctic Mirrors: Russia and the Small Peoples of the North (Cornell UP, 1994)
- Between Heaven and Hell: The Myth of Siberia in Russian Culture, coedited, with an introduction (St. Martin's Press, 1993)
- Speak Russian! coauthor (University of Texas Press, 1990)
Articles:
- "N. Ia. Marr and the National Origins of Soviet Ethnogenetics," Slavic Review 55.4 (Winter 1996): 826-862.
- "Primitive Communism and the Other Way Around," The South Atlantic Quarterly 94.3 (Summer 1995): 947-976.
- "The USSR as a Communal Apartment, or How a Socialist State Promoted Ethnic Particularism," Slavic Review 53.2 (Summer 1994): 414-452.
- "Naturalists versus Nations: Eighteenth-Century Russian Scholars Confront Ethnic Diversity," Representations, 47 (Summer 1994): 170-195.
- "Savage Christians or Unorthodox Russians? The Missionary Dilemma in Siberia," in Between Heaven and Hell.
- "From Savages to Citizens: The Cultural Revolution in the Soviet Far North," Slavic Review 51.1 (Spring 1992): 52-76.
- "The Sovereign's Foreigners: Classifying the Native Peoples in 17th-Century Siberia," Russian History/Histoire Russe 19.1-4 (1992): 475-485.
- "The Fall of Soviet Ethnography, 1928-1938," Current Anthropology 32.4 (August-October 1991): 476-484.
Fall 2005: Professor Michael Pollan, Knight Professor of Journalism in the Graduate School of Journalism
Selected Bibliography:
Books:
- The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World (Random House, 2001)
- A Place of My Own: The Education of an Amateur Builder (Dell, 1998)
- Second Nature: A Gardener’s Education (Dell, 1991)
Articles:
- "Our National Eating Disorder." The New York Times Magazine Oct 17, 2004 p74 col 01.
- "Back to the Heart of Organics: 'Poison Free' Is Food, but Is It Good Enough?" Utne: A Different Read on Life Sept-Oct 2004 i125: 92(2).
- "A Flood of US Corn Rips at the Heart of Mexico's Farms: The Effect of Free Trade in Corn Is the Decimation of the Farming Communities South of the Mexican Border." The Ecologist June 2004 v34 i5 p6(2).
- "An American Transplant." The New York Times Magazine May 16, 2004 p72 col 01.
- "Cattle Futures: Did You Know 'They' Feed Chicken Manure to Cattle?" Mother Earth News April-May 2004 i203 p24(2).
- "Cattle Futures?" The New York Times Magazine Jan 11, 2004 p11(L) col 03.
- "The (Agri)Cultural Contradictions of Obesity." The New York Times Magazine Oct 12, 2003 p41 col 03.
- "The Futures of Food." The New York Times Magazine May 4, 2003 p63 col 01.
- "Cruising on the Ark of Taste: By Pursuing the Politics of Pleasure, the Slow Food Movement Hopes to Save Rare Species and Delectables--and Give the Considered Life a Second Chance." Mother Jones May-June 2003 v28 i3 p74(5).
- "You Want Fries with That? From a Business Perspective, the Fattening of America May Have Been a Necessity." The New York Times Book Review Jan 12, 2003 v108 i2 p6(1).
- "When a Crop Becomes King." The New York Times July 19, 2002 s0 pA21(N) col 1.
- "Michael J. Fox's Nuptials in Hell!" With Michael J. Fox Esquire June 1989 v111 n6 p137(10).
- "Why Mow? The Case against Lawns." The New York Times Magazine May 28, 1989 v138 p22 col 1.
- "Gardening Means War." The New York Times Magazine June 19, 1988 v137 p24 col 1.
- "Cultivating Virtue." Organic Gardening Oct 1987 v34 n10 p95(2).
- "Cultivating Virtue: Compost and Its Moral Imperatives." Harper's Magazine May 1987 v274 p66(4).
- "Inventing Reality: The Politics of the Mass Media." The New York Times Book Review April 6, 1986 v91 p26 col 4.
- "Keeping Television Regulated." The New York Times Dec 22, 1981 v131 p27(N) pA19(LC) col 1.
