Rosalind C. Morris | |
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Awards | Guggenheim Fellowship (2022) |
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Discipline | Anthropology |
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Rosalind C. Morris is a Canadian anthropologist and cultural critic. [1] She is Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2022. [2] [3]
Morris grew up in Canada and spent her childhood in Kimberley,British Columbia and Vancouver. [4] She completed her BA at the University of British Columbia and received her MA from York University,and PhD from the University of Chicago. She joined the Columbia faculty in 1994. [5]
Morris' early work was centered on the history of modernity and mass media in Southeast Asia,with a focus on Thailand. [5] For the past twenty years,her work has focused on exploring the lives of mining communities in Southern Africa. [5]
She has served as the director of the Institute for Research on Women and Gender and associate director of the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University. [5]
Morris is also a documentary filmmaker,poet,and librettist. She made the documentary We are Zama Zama that shed light on the lives of South Africa's migrant mining workers excavating in the country's abandoned gold mines. [6] She also made her Royal Opera debut in 2015 as co-librettist with Yvette Christiansë for Syrian-born composer Zaid Jabri’s opera Cities of Salt . [7] [8] [9]
She received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2022,and her proposed topic is a multi-genre book that will reflect on "the lived experience of natural resource extractionism." [10]
Marie Howe is an American poet. Her most recent poetry collection is Magdalene. In August 2012 she was named the State Poet for New York.
Feryal Özel is a Turkish-American astrophysicist born in Istanbul,Turkey,specializing in the physics of compact objects and high energy astrophysical phenomena. As of 2022,Özel is the Department Chair and a professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology School of Physics in Atlanta. She was previously a professor at the University of Arizona in Tucson,in the Astronomy Department and Steward Observatory.
Adeline Marie Masquelier is a Professor of Anthropology at Tulane University in New Orleans,Louisiana.
Kay Barbara Warren is an American academic anthropologist,known for her extensive research and publications in cultural anthropology studies. Initially trained as an anthropologist specializing in field studies of Latin American and Mesoamerican indigenous cultures,Warren has also written and lectured on an array of broader anthropological topics. These include studies about the impacts on politically marginalized and indigenous communities of social movements,wars and political violence,transnationalism,and foreign aid programs. As of 2009 Warren holds an endowed chair as the Charles C. Tillinghast Jr. ’32 Professor in International Studies at Brown University,. Before joining the faculty at Brown in 2003,Warren held professorships at both Harvard and Princeton universities.
Terese Svoboda is an American poet,novelist,memoirist,short story writer,librettist,translator,biographer,critic and videomaker.
Kristen Rogheh Ghodsee is an American ethnographer and Professor of Russian and East European Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She is primarily known for her ethnographic work on post-Communist Bulgaria as well as being a contributor to the field of postsocialist gender studies.
Christia Mercer is an American philosopher and the Gustave M. Berne Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Columbia University. She is known for her work on the history of early modern philosophy,the history of Platonism,and the history of gender. She has received national attention for her work teaching in prisons and advocating for educational opportunities for incarcerated people. She is the Director and Founder of the Center for New Narratives in Philosophy at Columbia University,which "supports innovative research in the history of philosophy and promotes diversity in the teaching and practice of philosophy." She is the editor of Oxford Philosophical Concepts,co-editor of Oxford New Histories of Philosophy,and was elected to serve as president of the American Philosophical Association,Eastern Division,2019–20.
Rebecca Morris is an abstract painter who is known for quirky,casualist compositions using grid-like structures. In 1994 she wrote Manifesto:For Abstractionists and Friends of the Non-Objective,a tongue-in-cheek but sincere response to contemporary criticism of abstract painting. She is currently a professor of painting and drawing at UCLA. Prior to that,she lectured at numerous colleges including Columbia University,Bard College,Pasadena City College,USC's School of Fine Arts,and the University of Chicago.
Lila Morris O'Neale was an American anthropologist and historian of textiles. She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1931 for her research on prehistoric textiles in Peru.
Anne Elizabeth Pusey is director of the Jane Goodall Institute Research Center and a professor of evolutionary anthropology at Duke University. Since the early 1990s,Pusey has been archiving the data collected from the Gombe chimpanzee project. The collection housed at Duke University consists of a computerized database that Pusey oversees. In addition to archiving Jane Goodall’s research from Gombe,she is involved in field study and advising students at Gombe. She was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2022.
Barbara J. King is professor emerita,retired from the Department of Anthropology at the College of William &Mary where she taught from 1988 to 2015,and was chair of the department of Anthropology.
Sarah E. Wagner is an American professor of anthropology at the George Washington University's Columbian College of Arts and Sciences and a 2017 Guggenheim Fellow. Wagner is especially recognized for her research and work on genocides.
Camille Robcis is a scholar of French intellectual history and author. She is an professor of French and history at Columbia University. She won a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2020. Her books are The Law of Kinship:Anthropology,Psychoanalysis,and the Family in France and Disalienation:Politics,Philosophy,and Radical Psychiatry in France. The Law of Kinship won the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Book Prize.
Zaid Jabri is a Syrian-Polish composer,conductor and music educator,who works at the intersection of Western and Middle Eastern musical traditions. He is one of the representatives of the so-called second generation of Syrian composers of the turn of the 20th to the 21st century. This generation also includes Syrian musicians and composers such as Shafi Badreddin,Kareem Roustom,Raad Khalaf,Kinan Azmeh,Hassan Taha and Basilius Alawad and has been characterized as "transforming modern Arab music into a contemporary space for experimentation."
Mary Rosalind Morris was a professor of plant cytogenetics at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln from 1947 to 1990. She was one of the first women to earn a doctoral degree in genetics and plant breeding from Cornell University,was the first female faculty member in the Department of Agronomy and Horticulture at UNL,and was the first woman fellow of the American Society of Agronomy. Her pioneering work on "misbehaving chromosomes" in wheat cytogenetics was internationally recognized. In 1980,she served as president of the Nebraska Academy of Sciences. She was awarded a fellowship with the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a Guggenheim Fellowship. She was born in Wales and immigrated with her family to Forest,Ontario,Canada as a child. She died on March 26,just before her 102nd birthday.
Paige West is Claire Tow Professor of Anthropology at Barnard College. She also serves on the faculty of Columbia University. She earned a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2021.
Martha C. Howell is an American historian. She is Miriam Champion Emerita Professor of History at Columbia University.
Jerrilynn Denise Dodds is an American art historian whose work has focused on artistic identity in Medieval Spain. She is currently a professor of art history at Sarah Lawrence College and formerly served as the dean of the college from 2009 to 2015.
Lesley A. Sharp is an American medical anthropologist. She is the Barbara Chamberlain &Helen Chamberlain Josefsberg ’30 Professor of Anthropology at Barnard College.