2023

“Without the Soviet Union .” Featured review of Without the State: Self-Organization and Political Activism in Ukraine, by Emily Channell-Justice, The Russian Review, August 2023.

Critical Dialogue (with Bryon Moraski), Perspectives on Politics, June 2023.

“The Only Way War in Ukraine Can End,” Public Seminar March 28, 2023.

“Notes on Kharkiv. An ethnographer’s reflections on communication in wartime,” Public Seminar February 22, 2023.

“Why Volodymyr Zelenskyy Is a More Complex Leader than Most People Know,” Politico February 24, 2023.

2022

“Volodomyr Zelenskyy’s Vision of Ukrainian Nationhood,” Journal of Peace and War Studies, October 2022.

“How Zelensky Has Changed Ukraine,” Journal of Democracy, July 2022.

“Why Didn’t Putin Invade Under Trump? It Wasn’t Personal,” Politico, March 3, 2022 (po polsku).

2020

“Yes, Putin cares about Trump’s impeachment trial–but not for the reason you might imagine. He has another target in mind,” The Monkey Cage, The Washington Post, January 24, 2020.

2019

“Why Ukraine’s president said there had been ‘no pressure’ from Trump,” The Monkey Cage and Impeachment Inquiry page, The Washington Post, November 22, 2019.

“Trump says he was looking for corruption in Ukraine — where President Zelensky was known for mocking corruption in Ukraine,” The Monkey Cage, The Washington Post, November 14, 2019.

“Театр по принуждению. Почему поддержка власти в Украине и в России имеет мало общего с демократией или авторитаризмом. Потеря общего языка в разговорах о политике происходит не только в результате идеологических усилий власти,”  [Theatre under duress: Why support for the authorities in Ukraine and Russia has little in common with democracy or authoritarianism. The loss of a common language in conversations about politics is occurring not only due to the ideological efforts of the powers that be], Republic (Moscow), April 25, 2019.

Pisano, Jessica. Review of Living Faithfully in an Unjust World: Compassionate Care in Russia, by Melissa L. Caldwell, The Russian Review, 78:2 (April 2019).

2017

Pisano, Jessica. “Potemkin Villages,” The Global Encyclopedia of Informality: Understanding Social and Cultural Complexity. University College London Press, 2017, Volume 2, pp. 278-281.

2016

Pisano, Jessica & Simonyi, André. “Post-Soviet or Eurasian Lands? Rethinking Analytic Categories in the Ukraine-EU and Russia-China Borderlands,” in Tone Bringa and Hege Toje, eds. Eurasian Borderlands: Spatializing borders in the aftermath of state collapse. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2016, pp. 27-57.

Pisano, Jessica. Review of Ukraine After the Euromaidan: Challenges and Hopes, by Viktor Stepanenko and Yaroslav Pylynskyi, eds. Slavic Review  75:2 (Summer 2016) 495-496.

2014

Pisano, Jessica. October 2014. “Tug of War: Notes from the Battlefield of Reflexivity,” Fieldsights – Hot Spots, Cultural Anthropology Online.

Pisano, Jessica. 2014. “Pokazukha and Cardiologist Khrenov: Soviet Legacies, Legacy Theatre, and a Usable Past,” in Mark Beissinger and Stephen Kotkin (eds.), The Historical Legacies of Communism in Russia and Eastern Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 222-242.

Pisano, Jessica. 2014.  Review of Can Russia Modernise?: Sistema, Power Networks and Informal Governance, by Alena V. Ledeneva, Political Science Quarterly 129:2, pp. 346-347.

2011

Allina-Pisano, Jessica. 2011. “Opting Out under Stalin and Khrushchev: Post-War Sovietization in a Borderlands Magyar Village,” Problems of Post-Communism, 58:1, pp. 58-66.

Simonyi, André & Pisano, Jessica. 2011. “The Social Life of Borders: Political economy at the edge of the EU” in Joan DeBardeleben and Achim Hurrelmann (eds.), Transnational Europe: Promise—Paradox—Limits, pp. 222-238. London: Palgrave Macmillan.

2010

Allina-Pisano, Jessica. 2010. “Legitimizing facades: Civil Society in post-Orange Ukraine” in Paul D’Anieri (ed.), Orange Revolution and Aftermath: Mobilization, Apathy, and the State in Ukraine. Woodrow Wilson Center Press and Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 229-253.

Allina-Pisano, Jessica. 2010. “Social contracts and authoritarian projects in post-Soviet space: The use of administrative resource,” Communist and Post-Communist Studies, 43:4, pp. 373-382.

Allina-Pisano, Jessica. 2010. “Opting Out under Stalin and Khrushchev: Post-War Sovietization in a Borderlands Magyar Village.” Working paper, National Council for Eurasian and East European Research, pp. 1-22.

2009

Allina-Pisano, Jessica. 2009. Review of Le droit de propriété en mutation. Essai à la lumière du droit russe, by Aurore Chaigneau, Cahiers du Monde russe, 50:4, pp. 912-915 (in French).

Allina-Pisano, Jessica. 2009. “From Iron Curtain to Golden Curtain: Remaking Identity in the European Union Borderlands,” East European Politics and Societies, 23:2, pp. 266-290.

* 2011 Hungarian Studies Association Mark Pittaway biennial article prize for the best scholarly article related to Hungary.

Allina-Pisano, Jessica. 2009. “Property: What is it good for?” Social Research, 76:1, pp. 175-202.

Allina-Pisano, Jessica. 2009. “How to Tell an Axe Murderer: An Essay on Ethnography, Truth, and Lies,” in Edward Schatz (ed.), Political Ethnography: What Immersion Contributes to the Study of Power. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, pp. 53-73.

* 2010 American Political Science Association Giovanni Sartori Award for the best book in qualitative or multi-method research (co-recipient).

Allina-Pisano, Jessica. 2009. Review of Nationalist Politics and Everyday Ethnicity in a Transylvanian Town, by Rogers Brubaker, Margit Feischmidt, Jon Fox, and Liana Grancea, Perspectives on Politics, 7:2, pp. 424-425.

2008

Allina-Pisano, Jessica. 2008. “Seeds of Discontent: Russia’s Food Woes,” Current History, pp. 330-335.

2007

Allina-Pisano, Jessica. 2007. “Klychkov i Pustota: Post-Soviet Bureaucrats and the Production of Institutional Facades,” in Thomas Lahusen and Peter Solomon (eds.), What is Soviet Now? Identities, Legacies, Memories. London: LIT Verlag, pp. 41-56.

Allina-Pisano, Jessica. 2007. “The Two Faces of Petr Arkad’evich: Land and Dispossession in Russia’s Southwest, ca. 2000,” International Journal of Labor and Working Class History, pp. 70-90.

Allina-Pisano, Jessica. 2007.“Rural Transformation in Ukraine: A Sustainable Model?” Geographische Rundschau International Edition. Also published as Ländliche Transformation in der Ukraine: ein nachhaltiges Modell? Geographische Rundschau, December 2007, pp. 42-47.

Allina-Pisano, Jessica. 2007. “Agricultural privatization in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union,” Development & Transition, London School of Economics and United Nations Development Programme, pp. 19-21.

2006

Allina-Pisano, Jessica & Allina-Pisano, Eric. 2006. “‘Friendship of Peoples’ After the Fall: Violence and Pan-African Community in Post-Soviet Moscow,” in Maxim Matusevich (ed.), Africa in Russia, Russia in Africa: 300 Years of Encounters. Trenton, New Jersey: Africa World Press, pp. 175-198.

2005

Allina-Pisano, Jessica. 2005. “Land Reform and the Social Origins of Private Farmers in Russia and Ukraine” in Stephen Wegren (ed.), Rural Adaptation in Russia. London: Routledge.

2004

Allina-Pisano, Jessica. 2004. “Sub Rosa Resistance and the Politics of Economic Reform: Land Redistribution in Post-Soviet Ukraine,” World Politics, 56:4, pp. 554-581. Also published in Mark Bevir, ed. Interpretive Political Science (London and New Delhi: SAGE Publications, 2010).

Allina-Pisano, Jessica. 2004. “Land Reform and the Social Origins of Private Farmers in Russia and Ukraine,” Journal of Peasant Studies, 31:3, pp. 489-514.

Allina-Pisano, Jessica. 2004. “Agrarnye reformy v Rossii i na Ukraine: sravnitel’nyi analiz [Land reforms in Russia and Ukraine: A comparative analysis],” Otechestvennye zapiski, 4:1, pp. 1-12 (in Russian).

Allina-Pisano, Jessica. 2004. Review of Rural Development in Eurasia and the Middle East, ed. Kurt E. Engelmann and Vjeran Pavlakovic, International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, 36:2, pp. 314-315.

2002

Allina-Pisano, Jessica. 2002. “Reorganization and its Discontents: A Case Study in Voronezh oblast’” in David O’Brien and Stephen Wegren (eds.), Rural Reform in Post-Soviet Russia. Washington, D.C. and Baltimore: Woodrow Wilson Center Press and Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 298-324.