Carol J. Greenhouse

Carol J. Greenhouse
Born January 4, 1950
Nationality American
Alma mater Harvard University (B.A., Ph.D.)
Scientific career
Fields Anthropology, Legal Anthropology
Institutions Princeton University, Indiana University, Cornell University
Doctoral advisor Evon Z. Vogt, Klaus-Friedrich Koch

Carol J. Greenhouse (born 1950) is an American anthropologist. She is the Arthur W. Marks Professor of Anthropology and Chair of the Department of Anthropology at Princeton University.[1] She is also the president of the American Ethnological Society, former editor of its peer-review journal, American Ethnologist, and former president of the Law and Society Association.

In 2012, Greenhouse was named a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.[2][3]

Education and career

Greenhouse received her Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology from Radcliffe College in 1971 and her Ph.D. in Anthropology from Harvard University in 1976. At Harvard, she studied under legal anthropologist Klaus-Friedrich Koch and Mesoamericanist anthropologist Evon Z. Vogt.[4] Following the completion of her Ph.D., Greenhouse joined the faculty at Cornell University. She remained at Cornell until 1991, when she took a position in the Department of Anthropology at Indiana University. Since 2001, she has been a professor in the Department of Anthropology at Princeton University.

Books

  • Praying for Justice: Faith, Order, and Community in an American Town. Cornell University Press, 1986.
  • Law and Community in Three American Towns. Cornell University Press, 1994.
  • A Moment's Notice: Time Politics Across Cultures. Cornell University Press, 1996.
  • Democracy and Ethnography: Constructing Identities in Multicultural Liberal States (Editor). SUNY Press, 1998.
  • Ethnography in Unstable Places: Everyday Lives in Contexts of Dramatic Political Change (Editor). Duke University Press, 2002.
  • Ethnographies of Neoliberalism (Editor). University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009.
  • The Paradox of Relevance: Ethnography and Citizenship in the United States. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011.

References

  1. ↑ University, Princeton. "Carol Greenhouse - Department of Anthropology". www.princeton.edu. Retrieved 2015-07-20.
  2. ↑ "Membership". www.amacad.org. Retrieved 2015-07-20.
  3. ↑ "Princeton University - FACULTY AWARD: Eight named to American Academy of Arts and Sciences". www.princeton.edu. Retrieved 2015-07-20.
  4. ↑ Nixon, William A. (1998). "An Introduction to the Work of Carol J. Greenhouse". Indiana.edu.
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