Delaney Davis
Program: MA Anthropology
Year of Entry: Fall 2020
Advisor: Steve Lubkemann
Concentration: International Development
Political anthropology, power structure and dynamics, Cold War and Soviet-era Russia, power/force/authority in the Indopacific, cannibalism, structuralism, fear
Delaney Davis' research is abour violence, transgenerational memory, and inherited trauma in the former Soviet Union, and addresses the ways in which these phenomena shape concepts of identity, personhood, and belonging between Russia and Ukraine. Focal points of her research include structural violence, Stalinist repression, mass graves and exhumation of remains, suicide, and the sociocultural significance of Holodomor.
B.A. (Anthropology/Foreign Affairs), 2018, University of Virginia