About
Patty A. Gray is a freelance editor and writer. Her literary work has appeared in Chicago Quarterly Review, Cagibi, and elsewhere. In her previous career as a PhD anthropologist, she published articles in scholarly journals and a book with Cambridge University Press; more recently, she has authored a novel and is completing a memoir. Born in Omaha, she went on to live and work in Russia, Germany, Alaska, and Ireland before returning to settle east of Sacramento, California.
Featured Work
The Predicament of Chukotka's Indigenous Movement: Post-Soviet Activism in the Russian Far North
This is the first ethnography of the Russian North to focus on post-Soviet relations of domination between an indigenous minority and a non-indigenous majority in an urban setting. Patty A. Gray charts the political transformation in Chukotka in the 1990s as its administration sought to represent itself as 'democratic' while becoming ever more repressive, especially toward the indigenous population. The 'predicament' refers to how the nascent indigenous movement was prepared to address Soviet-style domination, and instead was confronted with this 'new Russian' style.
