Kristen Rogheh Ghodsee is an ethnographer and Professor of Russian and East European Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She is known for her ethnographic work on post-Communist Bulgaria and as a contributor to the field of postsocialist gender studies.She is also the host of the podcast "A.K. 47 - Forty-seven Selections from the Works of Alexandra Kollontai."Ghodsee's and essays have appeared in Dissent, Foreign Affairs, Jacobin, The Baffler, The New Republic, Quartz, NBC Think, The Lancet, Project Syndicate, Le Monde Diplomatique, Die Tageszeitung, The Washington Post, and the New York Times. She is the author of ten books. Her first book, "Second World, Second Sex: Socialist Women's Activism and Global Solidarity during the Cold War," was published in 2019. Ghodsee received her B.A. in Creative Writing and Theatre Arts from the University of California Santa Cruz, her M.A. in Creative Writing from the University of California Berkeley, and her Ph.D. in Social and Cultural Studies from the University of California Berkeley.