AV俱乐部

Cross appointment

• Gender and Women's Studies

Education

• BA, University of Illinois
• MA, PhD, University of California Los Angeles

Research interests

Liesl Gambold is an anthropologist whose earlier work in Russia focused on economic and social responses to political and market restructuring, gender relations in rural communities, and the struggle between individual and group ideologies. She studied the structures in Russian village life that were salient to local residents, who were not fundamentally resistant towards the changing power structures of their rural agricultural sectors, but were less inclined to decollectivize the social nature of their village. This led to further research on the emotional ties of collective work and property as they relate to two areas: reason and emotion in socialist culture; and anthropological and economic accounts of the moral economy and governance of the commons.

Dr. Gambold鈥檚 current anthropological research is on aging, mobility, housing, and international retirement migration. As baby boomers enter retirement age, shifts in their demographics and lifestyle choices are increasingly salient in policy-making and academic discussions. Dr. Gambold has conducted research in Mexico among Canadians and Americans who have permanently migrated south, in southern France and Spain, which have been popular European retirement destinations for decades, in Sweden and Germany, where she interviewed residents at LGBT aging and housing facilities, and in Brussels where she interviewed European Union officials about EU pensioner, migration and health policies. Dr. Gambold has been part of many interdisciplinary research projects acting as a primary qualitative researcher. She is a research associate at AV俱乐部鈥檚听Jean Monnet European Union Center of Excellence and has been the Coordinator of the Gender & Women鈥檚 Studies Program since 2018.

Selected publications

• 2021 Redden, M., Gahagan, J., Kia, H., Humble, A. H., Stinchcombe, A., Manning, E., Ecker, J., de Vries, B., Gambold, L. Oliver, B., & Thomas, R. Housing as a determinant of health for older LGBT Canadians: Focus group findings from a national housing study,听Housing and Society,听顿翱滨:听
• 2020 Wranik, W.D., Gambold, L., & Peacock, S. 鈥淯ncertainty tolerance among experts involved in drug reimbursement recommendations: Qualitative evidence from HTA committees in Canada and Europe鈥�, Health Policy.
• 2018a听 Wranik, W.D., Zielinska, D.A., Gambold, L., & Sevgur, S. 鈥淭hreats to the value of health technology assessment: Qualitative evidence from Canada and Poland.听Health Policy.听
• 2018b听 鈥淒IY Aging: Retirement migration as a new age-inscription鈥�,听Anthropology & Aging Quarterly,听39(1), 82-93.
• 2017听 鈥溾�橫aybe you will remember鈥�: Interpretation and life course reflexivity鈥�, AREA, 49(4), 402-408.
• 2013 鈥淩etirement Abroad as a Women鈥檚 Aging Strategy鈥�, Anthropology & Aging Quarterly, 34(2), 184-198.