Ilana Gershon is the Herbert S. Autrey Professor of Anthropology. She has published books such as Down and Out in the New Economy ( Chicago), The Pandemic Workplace (Chicago) and has edited three other volumes of ethnographic fiction on work, animals, and monsters. Currently, with Sarah Green, she is surfacing an emerging theoretical movement in anthropology that assumes everyone lives among multiple social orders, and endeavor to form boundaries between these differentiated social orders that are stable and yet porous enough to allow people, objects, forms, and ideas to circulate in appropriate ways.
