A. Austin Garey is an anthropologist who studies post-Soviet institutions in Russia and Ukraine. She teaches for the U.S. government-funded STARTALK Russian program, George Mason University, and is the Director of Education Corps Ukraine, a non-profit organisation that connects Ukrainian schools with EFL teaching resources. She has published on issues of semiotics and cultural production in the Journal of Childhood, Education, and Society, Laboratorium: Russian Review of Social Science, and Michigan Feminist Studies.