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As Associate Dean, Dr. Zavisca's chief goal is to foster an environment in which research and scholarship can thrive. She directs research development initiatives in SBS, in cooperation with the Social and Behavioral Sciences Research Institute (SBSRI) and UA's Research Development Services (RDS). She advises on college priorities and policies in relation to research, and is also the primary point of contact for research ethics and compliance issues and for research center governance in SBS. She works with units across the university to connect SBS researchers with scholarly, governmental, and public communities. Dr. Zavisca is available to consult with faculty on developing their research agendas, identifying and applying for resources to support their research, building research collaborations, and navigating UA's research infrastructure. Dr. Zavisca is also responsible for graduate affairs in SBS and collaborates with UA's Graduate College on initiatives related to graduate student funding, professional development, and placement.

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Courses
  • SRM
    Social Research Methods

  • SC
    Sociology of Culture

  • SS
    Social Statistics

  • CS
    Culture and Society

  • ASRM
    Advanced Social Research Methods

  • SMMC
    Social Meaning of Money and Credit

  • BQM
    Basic Quantitative Methods

Grants
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    PhD Career Pathways: The Humanities Coalition

    Key Personnel (KP)

    2021

    $48.0K
    Active
  • Funding agency logo
    Understanding PhD Career Pathways for Program Improvement

    Key Personnel (KP)

    2018

    $50.0K
  • Funding agency logo
    Homeownership and Societal Stability: Assessing Causal Effects in Central Eurasia

    Principal Investigator (PI)

    2013

    $739.8K
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    Collaborative Research: Housing Status and Life Course After Privatization in Russia

    Principal Investigator (PI)

    2011

    $55.0K
Books
  • Housing the New Russia

    2012

News
  • Sociologist Investigates Reverse Assimilation of Immigrants

    2018

  • UA Sociology Student Receives Prestigious Health Policy Fellowship

    2016

  • What is Homeownership, and What Is It For?

    2013

  • Grants Fund New UA Offerings, Research

    2012

  • Why Russians Think Americans Don't Own Their Homes

    2011

Publications (42)
Recent
  • Internal displacement and subjective well-being: The case of Ukraine

    2022

  • Market and Nonmarket Pathways to Home Ownership and Social Stratification in Hybrid Housing Regimes: Evidence from Four Post-Soviet Countries

    2022

  • Housing Status in Post-Soviet Contexts: A Multi-Dimensional Measurement Approach

    2021

  • Experiences in Russia of Kyrgyz and Ukrainian labor migrants: ethnic hierarchies, geopolitical remittances, and the relevance of migration theory

    2020

  • Housing Independence and the Transition to Adulthood in Post-Soviet Russia

    2018

  • Housing and Inequality in Four Post-Soviet Countries

    2018

  • Does Housing Status Affect Fertility Intention? Evidence From Four Post-Soviet Countries

    2017

  • Consuming for an imagined future: Middle-class consumer lifestyle and exploratory experiences in the transition to adulthood

    2017

  • Political and Social Attitudes of Russia’s Muslims: Caliphate, Kadyrovism, or Kasha?

    2017

  • Experiences of home ownership and housing mobility after privatization in Russia

    2017

  • Housing the new Russia

    2017

  • metaphorIcal Imagery In news reportIng on mIgrant deaths

    2016

  • Housing and Political Grievances in Post-Soviet Eurasia

    2016

  • Does Russian propaganda work?

    2016

  • The Socioeconomic, Demographic, and Political Effects of Housing in Comparative Perspective

    2016

  • Housing/housing markets

    2015

  • Informed by the Past, Stuck in the Present, and Imagining the Future: A Sociological Perspective on Identity Consumption in Emerging Adulthood

    2015

  • What 18 Focus Groups In the Former USSR Taught Us About America's Image Problem

    2015

  • Borrowing to Buy is No Disgrace: The Social Marketing of Mortgages in 1920s America

    2015

  • What 18 focus groups in the former USSR taught us about America's image problems: after talking with dozens of people in Russia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, and Kyrgyzstan, two …

    2015

  • BIC and Alternative Bayesian Information Criteria in the Selection of Structural Equation Models

    2014

  • Pro et Contra: Views of the United States in Four Post-Soviet States1

    2014

  • Policy Memo: Views of the United States in Four Post-Soviet States

    2014

  • Leaving and Mobility as Part of a Middle Class Success Narrative

    2013

  • Exploratory Experience: A New Model of Middle-Class Consumer Lifestyle during the Transition to Adulthood

    2013

  • A Comparison of Bayes Factor Approximation Methods, Including Two New Methods

    2012

  • The lived experience of housing among young people in Russia

    2012

  • A comparison of Bayes factor approximation methods including two new methods

    2012

  • 5. Disappointed Dreams: Distributive Injustice in the New Housing Order

    2012

  • Explaining and Interpreting the End of Soviet Rule

    2011

  • The Patriotism of Despair: Nation, War, and Loss in Russia

    2010

  • To owe is not to own: Why Russians reject mortgages (and why Americans accept them)

    2010

  • Property without markets: Housing policy and politics in post-Soviet Russia, 1992–2007

    2008

  • From the margins to the mainstream. the curious convergence of Pierre Bourdieu and US Sociology

    2008

  • Bourdieu in American sociology, 1980–2004

    2007

  • Ethics in ethnographic fieldwork

    2007

  • The status of cultural omnivorism: A case study of reading in Russia

    2005

  • Does money buy happiness in unhappy Russia?

    2005

  • Consumer inequalities and regime legitimacy in late Soviet and post-Soviet Russia

    2004

  • Contesting capitalism at the post-Soviet dacha: The meaning of food cultivation for urban Russians

    2003

  • Condom acceptance is higher among travelers in Uganda

    2000

  • Social and sexual networks: their role in the spread of HIV/AIDS among young gay men.

    1995

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