Ilana Gershon is the Ruth N. Halls professor of anthropology at Indiana University. She has published a book on breaking up using new media, The Breakup 2.0: Disconnecting over New Media (Cornell 2010) and a book on hiring in corporate America, Down and Out in the New Economy (Chicago 2017). She is writing a book tentatively titled The Pandemic Life of Employment Contracts, in which she explores what the pandemic reveals about how US workplaces function as incubators for both democratic and autocratic citizens.
