Dace Dzenovska

Dr. Dace Dzenovska is an Associate Professor in Anthropology of Migration at the University of Oxford, affiliated with the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography and Kellogg College. Her research explores intersections of migration, sovereignty, capitalism, and postsocialism, with fieldwork in Latvia, the UK, and Eastern Europe.

• Education:
  • Doctoral and Master’s degrees in Social Cultural Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley
  • Interdisciplinary Master’s in Humanities and Social Thought, New York University

Dace's research focuses on political anthropology, examining how changing relationships between states, people, and capital shape migration and governance in postsocialist contexts. Her work includes analyses of liberalism, nationalism, and emptiness in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.

Her recent publications highlight trends in emptiness, sovereignty, and postsocialist transformations, analyzing how capitalist dynamics and political authority reshape spatial governance. She has mentored current and former DPhil students working on themes like displacement, care work, and financialization of housing.