Carol J. Greenhouse

Carol J. Greenhouse
Born (1950-01-04) 4 January 1950 (age 74)
NationalityAmerican
Alma materHarvard University
AwardsFellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2012
Scientific career
FieldsAnthropology, Legal Anthropology
InstitutionsPrinceton University, Indiana University, Cornell University
Doctoral advisorEvon 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]

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]

  1. ^ "Carol J. Greenhouse | American Academy of Arts and Sciences". www.amacad.org. February 28, 2024. Retrieved April 4, 2024.
  2. ^ University, Princeton. "Carol Greenhouse - Department of Anthropology". www.princeton.edu. Archived from the original on July 8, 2015. Retrieved July 20, 2015.
  3. ^ a b "Carol Greenhouse". Office of the Dean of the Faculty. Retrieved April 4, 2024.
  4. ^ Curtis, Jennifer (July 6, 2020). "News from Within: Carol Greenhouse's Subversive Vision". PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review. Retrieved April 4, 2024.
  5. ^ "Membership". www.amacad.org. Retrieved July 20, 2015.
  6. ^ "Princeton University - FACULTY AWARD: Eight named to American Academy of Arts and Sciences". www.princeton.edu. Retrieved July 20, 2015.
  7. ^ "Ten Women Named Members of the American Philosophical Society". Women In Academia Report. May 13, 2011. Retrieved April 4, 2024.