Kristen R. Ghodsee

Kristen R. Ghodsee is the award-winning author of 12 books and a professor and chair of Russian and East European studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Her articles and essays have been translated into over 25 languages and have appeared in publications such as The Washington Post, The New York Times, Foreign Affairs, Jacobin, The New Republic, Le Monde diplomatique, and Die Tageszeitung. She has appeared on the PBS News Hour and France 24 as well as on dozens of podcasts, including NPR’s Throughline, WIRED’s Have a Nice Future, Vox’s The Gray Area, and The Ezra Klein Show. Her critically acclaimed 2018 book, Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism: And Other Arguments for Economic Independence, has appeared in 15 languages. Her latest book, Everyday Utopia: What 2,000 Years of Bold Experiments Can Teach Us About the Good Life (2023), with Simon & Schuster, is a “fascinating” (The Wall Street Journal), “spirited and inspiring” (Jacobin), and “refreshingly optimistic and accessible” (The Nation) tour through the ages in search of the thinkers and communities that have dared to reimagine how we might better arrange our domestic lives.