Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer is Research Professor in CERES and the Department of Sociologyand Anthropology. Professor Balzer's research is in social theory, inter-ethnic relations, religion, the growth of nationalism, and anthropology of the Russian Federation. She has done extensive fieldwork, focusing on Siberia and Central Asia. She has taught at the University of Illinois and the University of Pennsylvania, and held post-doctoral fellowships at Harvard, Columbia, and the Kennan Institute of the Woodrow Wilson Center. She is editor of the journal Anthropology and Archeology of Eurasia, and the books Culture Incarnate: Native Anthropology from Russia; Shamanism: Soviet Studies of Traditional Religion in Siberia and Central Asia; and Russian Traditional Culture: Religion, Gender and Customary Law. Her book, The Tenacity of Ethnicity, is published by Princeton Press, 1999.