91探花

Smoki Musaraj

Smoki Musaraj, portrait
Associate Professor of Anthropology
Bentley Annex 155
Center for Law, Justice & Culture
International Studies
Sociology and Anthropology
musaraj@ohio.edu
740-597-2722

Education

Ph.D. Anthropology. New School for Social Research, 2012

M.A. Political Science. New School for Social Research, 2004

B.A. Cultural Studies and Political Studies. Trent University, 2001

Research & Expertise

  • Economic Anthropology
  • Theories of Money and Value
  • Informal Economies
  • Anthropology of Corruption
  • Socialism and Postsocialism
  • Southeast Europe
  • Albania

Courses Taught

  • ANTH 1010: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
  • Anth 3270 Anthropology of Bubbles, Crises, and Crashes
  • ANTH 3500/5500: Economic Anthropology
  • ANTH 3820: Cultures of the Mediterranean
  • ANTH 4841/5941: Seminar in Cultural Anthropology: Situating Global Capitalism
  • T3 4400 (co-taught): Seminar in Wealth and Poverty

Awards, Fellowships & Grants

Germaine Tillion Chair, Mediterranean Tomorrow, IMERA Institute of Advanced Studies, Marseille, France (2023)

Stavro Sk毛ndi Book Prize for Achievement in Albanian Studies, Society for Albanian Studies (2020)

New York Public Library Short Term Fellowship (2020)

Outstanding Tutor Award, Honors Tutorial College, 91探花 (2020)

Baker Fund Award, 91探花 (2019)

First Book Subvention Award, Association for East European, Eurasia, and Slavic Studies (ASEEES) (2019)

Distinguished Mentor Award, Honor Tutorial College (2017)

91探花 Research Committee Award, 91探花 (2015)

Publications

Books

Nata拧a Gregori莽 Bon and Smoki Musaraj, eds. 2021. Remitting, Building, and Restoring Contemporary Albania. (Co-edited with Nata拧a Gregori膷 Bon). Palgrave Macmillan.

Musaraj, Smoki. 2020. . Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.

Maurer, Bill, Smoki Musaraj, and Ivan Small. Editors. 2018. . New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books. (The Human Economy Series, Eds. Keith Hart and John Sharp).

Peer-Reviewed Articles

Musaraj, S., 2023. "." American Anthropologist, 125(4), pp.865-879.

Musaraj, Smoki. 2019. 鈥淭he Magic of Pyramid Firms: Political Cosmologies, Credibility and Collapsed Finance鈥 Ethnos: Journal of Anthropology. 84(2): 179-200.

Musaraj, Smoki. 2018 鈥淐orruption, Right On! Hidden Cameras, Satire and Intimacies of Anti-corruption.鈥 Current Anthropology. 59 (S18): S105-S116

Musaraj, Smoki, 2017 鈥淧yramid Firms and Value Transformation in Postsocialist Albania.鈥 Ethnologie Fran莽aise. Vol 2: 321-330.

Musaraj, Smoki, 2011 鈥淭ales from Albarado: The Materiality of Pyramid Schemes in Postsocialist Albania.鈥 Cultural Anthropology. 26(1): 84-110. See also Supplementary Material.

Book Chapters

Matthew Rosen and Smoki Musaraj 2022 鈥淭irana Visible and Invisible.鈥 In. Edited by Benjamin Linder. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave MacMillan.

Smoki Musaraj. 2021. "Temporalities of Concrete in a Postcommunist City." In . Palgrave Macmillan.

Smoki Musaraj and Nata拧a Gregori莽 Bon. 2021. 鈥淚ntroduction: Remitting, Restoring and Building Contemporary Albania.鈥 In Remitting, Building, and Restoring the Contemporary Albania. Palgrave Macmillan.

Musaraj, Smoki and Ivan Small. 2018. "Introduction: Money and Finance at the Margins.: In Money at the Margins: Global Perspectives on Technology, Inclusion and Design. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books. pp. 1-18.

Musaraj, Smoki. 2018. 鈥淐orruption Indicators in the Local Legal/Political Landscape: Reflections from Albania. In The Palgrave Handbook of Indicators in Global Governance by Indicators. Eds. Deborah Valentina Malito, Gaby Umbach, and Nehal Bhuta. Palgrave Macmillan.

Musaraj, Smoki, 2015 鈥淚ndicators, Global Expertise, and a Local Political Drama: Producing and Deploying Corruption Perception Surveys in Albania.鈥 In The Quiet Power of Indicators: Measuring Development, Corruption, and Rule of Law. Edited by Sally Engle Merry, Kevin Davis, Angelina Fisher, and Benedict Kingsbury. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Musaraj, Smoki, 2012 鈥淎lternative Publics, Alternative Temporalities: Unofficial Collective Practices in Communist Albania.鈥 In Albania: Family, Society and Culture in the 20th Century. Eds. Andrea Hemming, Gentiana Kera, Enriketa Papa. LIT Verlag.

Editor-Reviewed Articles

Smoki Musaraj and Matthew Canfield, 2022. 鈥淏ook Review Editorial: Emerging Themes in Legal and Political Anthropology.鈥 PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review. 45 (2): 304-310.

Musaraj, Smoki, 2016 鈥淪ht毛pi Evropjane p毛r nj毛 t毛 ardhme m毛 t毛 mir毛.鈥 (European Homes for a Better Future.) 笔毛谤辫箩别办箩补 Vol 34 (1)

Musaraj, Smoki, 2009 鈥淧assport Troubles: Social Tactics and Places of Informal Transactions in Postosocialist Albania.鈥 Anthropology of East Europe Review. 27(2): 157-175

Musaraj, Smoki, 2008 鈥淧ik毛pyetje Antropologjike Mbi Korrupsionin.鈥 (Anthropological Questions on Corruption) Polis 6: Korrupsioni n毛 Shqip毛ri (Corruption in Albania) European Univ. of Tirana. 6