Carol J. Greenhouse

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Carol J. Greenhouse
Born (1950-01-04) 4 January 1950 (age 74)
Nationality American
Alma mater Harvard University
AwardsFellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2012
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 January 4, 1950) is an American anthropologist known for her scholarship on law, time, democracy, and neoliberalism. [1] She is currently professor emerita in the Department of Anthropology at Princeton University, where she previously served as Arthur W. Marks Professor of Anthropology and Department Chair. [2] She is also the former president of the American Ethnological Society (2013-2015), former editor of its peer-review journal, American Ethnologist (1998-2002), and former president of both the Law and Society Association (1996-1997) and Association for Political and Legal Anthropology (1999-2001). [3]

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Greenhouse's scholarship is noted for its engagement with the thought of Émile Durkheim. [3] [4] Her books and articles have earned various honors, including the Law and Society Association's Harry Kalven Prize and the Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and Humanities' James Boyd White Award. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences [5] [6] and member of the American Philosophical Society. [7]

Early life and education

Greenhouse received her Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology from Radcliffe College in 1971. As an undergraduate, she conducted fieldwork among Indigenous Maya in Mexico as part of the Harvard Chiapas Project. [3] She remained at Harvard for her Ph.D. in Anthropology, which she received in 1976. Working with legal anthropologist Klaus-Friedrich Koch and Mesoamericanist anthropologist Evon Z. Vogt, [8] the completed her dissertation fieldwork in a small Baptist community in the southern United States. [3]

Career

Following the completion of her Ph.D., Greenhouse joined the faculty at Cornell University. [3] She remained at Cornell until 1991, when she took a position in the Department of Anthropology at Indiana University. In 2001, Greenhouse moved to Princeton University, where she remained on the faculty of the Department of Anthropology until her retirement in 2019. [3]

Personal life

Greenhouse is married to Alfred C. Aman Jr., former Dean of the Indiana University Maurer School of Law. [9] She is a sister of Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Linda Greenhouse. [10]

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