Natalia Roudakova

Assistant Professor in Communication

Affiliated Faculty Program for the Study of Religion

Education

Ph.D. in Cultural and Social Anthropology, Stanford University (2007)

Research

Natalia Roudakova conducts ethnographic research among political journalists in various regions of today’s Russia and historical research into practices of journalism and state-society relations in the former USSR. Primary research interests are: journalism ethics and professionalism, media-political relations in authoritarian societies, religion and public sphere, and the post-socialist state. Broader research interests include comparative analysis of media systems, ethnographic research in communication, and anthropology of liberalism and secularism.

Publications

Roudakova, Natalia. “Post-Soviet Journalism as ‘Prostitution’: Russia’s Reactions to Anna Politkovskaya’s Murder,” Political Communication, under review.

Roudakova, Natalia. “Media-Political Clientelism: Lessons from Anthropology,” Media, Culture & Society, Vol. 30, No. 1, pp. 41-59 (2008).

Teaching

Natalia Roudakova has taught courses in cultural and political anthropology, religion and democracy, and civil liberties and terrorism. At UCSD, Roudakova will regularly teach courses on European media systems, on religion and the public sphere, and on media in authoritarian societies, in addition to other standard courses in Communication.