Dr Makovicky Nicolette is Lecturer of Russian and east European Studies at the University of Oxford. She has has published on themes including labour, informal economy, entrepreneurialism, gender, and citizenship. Makovicky is editor of the volume Neoliberalism, Personhood, and Postsocialism: Enterprising Selves in Changing Economies (Ashgate/Routledge, 2014) and co-editor of Economies of Favour after Socialism (University of Oxford Press, 2016). She has done fieldwork in Slovakia, Poland, and the United Kingdom.