Daina S. Eglitis George Washington University, USA

Dr. Daina Eglitis (PhD, University of Michigan—Ann Arbor) is Associate Professor of Sociology and International Affairs and Director of Undergraduate Studies in Sociology and Criminal Justice at the George Washington University. Her scholarly interests include history and collective memory, gender and social change, socioeconomic class and inequality, demography and population studies, and scholarship on teaching and learning. Dr. Eglitis is a two-time Fulbright Fellow in Latvia, and has been a research fellow at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies. Dr. Eglitis is the author of Imagining the Nation: History, Modernity, and Revolution in Latvia  and a co-editor of Central and East European Politics 5th edition, and has published articles and book chapters on collective memory, socioeconomic inequality, gender, and demographic issues in Central and East Europe. She also presents and writes on the topic of teaching and learning in sociology, and is the author of the Teaching Sociology article “Performing Theory: Dramatic Learning in the Theory Classroom” and co-author of the article “Social Issues and Problem-Based Learning in Sociology: Opportunities and Challenges in the Undergraduate Classroom.” At GWU, she teaches courses on introductory sociology, class and social inequality, contemporary sociological theory, and the sociology of banned books, among others. Dr. Eglitis is an avid reader (recent delightful discoveries in fiction include Yesteryear, the Red Rising series, the Broken Earth trilogy, and Our Missing Hearts) and loves to travel to new places.