Born in the U.S and raised in Europe, Zigon earned his MA in Liberal Arts at St. Johns College and later his PhD in Anthropology from the CUNY Graduate Center in New York City. His research interests have included morality, subjectivity, social ontology, and political possibilities for being otherwise. He is currently engaged in two long-term research projects, one focused on the political moralism of the human rights, and another on political activism by people who use drugs. Zigon has also published three books: Morality: An Anthropological Perspective (Berg, 2008), Making the New Post-Soviet Person: Narratives of Moral Experience in Contemporary Moscow (Brill, 2010), and HIV is God’s Blessing: Rehabilitating Morality in Neoliberal Russia (University of California Press, 2011).