Meet the Speaker: A. Austin Garey

A. Austin Garey is an anthropologist and research scholar at the Kennan Institute specializing in post-Soviet institutions in Russia and Ukraine. She directs Education Corps Ukraine, connecting Ukrainian schools with EFL teaching resources. Her research on semiotics and cultural production appears in the Journal of Childhood, Education, and Society, Laboratorium: Russian Review of Social Science, and Michigan Feminist Studies. Her forthcoming book, Leagues of Laughter: War, Comedy, and the Soviet Legacy, examines how a Soviet-era youth activity evolved amid national collapse and war, uncovering the entwinement of humor and oppression in the cultural context of Russia’s war on Ukraine.