Jessica Pisano

Jessica Pisano is an Associate Professor of  at The New School for Social Research. She writes and teaches about contemporary and twentieth-century politics in Eastern Europe. Her work focuses on the enclosure of public resources, the constitution of material and social power, and political and social processes of dispossession. She studies how shifts in political economy affect people's lives, and how those effects translate into changes in local, national, and global politics. Pisano is the author of (Cornell University Press, 2022) and (Cambridge University Press, 2008), which received the Harvard University Davis Center Book Prize in Political and Social Studies in 2009. She is writing a history of property under fascism, state socialism, and neoliberal democracy on a single street in Eastern Europe between 1938 and 2014. Her public-facing work includes a series of articles on American impeachment and Ukrainian and Russian politics in The  Washington Post. She has written for Politico on the timing of Russia’s full-scale war and on the artistry of Volodymyr Zelenskyy for Politico and The Journal of Democracy. Having served in institutional roles in Russia and Ukraine throughout her career, she is now a trustee of Kharkiv Karazin University Foundation in Ukraine.