Edward Snajdr received his PhD from the University of Pittsburgh and joined the faculty at John Jay College in 2003. His research interests include violence, ethnicity, gender, environmentalism, and applying anthropological perspectives in the fields of development, legal reform and criminology. He has conducted fieldwork throughout post-communist Eurasia (Slovakia, Kazakhstan, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Romania, Russia and the Czech Republic) and in the U.S. (Florida and New York City). His work has been funded by the National Science Foundation, U.S. Department of State, Fulbright IIIE, International Research & Exchanges Board (IREX), and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). His publications include articles in the American Ethnologist, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Problems of Post-Communism, and several book chapters including Intellectuals and Politics in Central Europe (CEU Press 2001), and Democratic Policing in Transitional Societies (Ashgate 2006). His book Nature Protests: The End of Ecology After Communism (University of Washington Press) will be published fall 2008. He is currently working on researching urban change, violence and social movements.