Jennifer Patico is Professor and Chair of Anthropology at Georgia State University in Atlanta. A sociocultural anthropologist, she has conducted ethnographic research in both Russia and the United States, with a focus on themes of consumption, class and selfhood in both contexts. Her career in anthropology―and her participation in the Cold War Childhoods memory project― were inspired by her participation in the youth musical production Peace Child in her hometown of Columbia, Maryland and ultimately in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, where she collaborated with U.S. and Soviet teens during the last days of the Cold War. She is the author of Consumption and Social Change in a Post-Soviet Middle Class (Stanford University Press 2008) and The Trouble with Snack Time: Children’s Food and the Politics of Parenting (New York University Press 2020).