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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.Show Less
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Courses
- SRMSocial Research Methods
- SCSociology of Culture
- SSSocial Statistics
- CSCulture and Society
- ASRMAdvanced Social Research Methods
- SMMCSocial Meaning of Money and Credit
- BQMBasic Quantitative Methods
Grants
- PhD Career Pathways: The Humanities Coalition
Key Personnel (KP)
2021
$48.0K
Active - Understanding PhD Career Pathways for Program Improvement
Key Personnel (KP)
2018
$50.0K
- Homeownership and Societal Stability: Assessing Causal Effects in Central Eurasia
Principal Investigator (PI)
2013
$739.8K
- 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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