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Catherine Lutz
Catherine Lutz is an anthropologist whose research has influenced thinking about emotion and about war and militarization across many fields. Her methods span close-grained ethnographic work, quantitative analysis, and cultural critique. Her first book (Unnatural Emotions) reshaped theoretical understandings and ethnographic methods for the study of emotions, based on fieldwork on a Micronesian atoll. Her
John Hibbing
John R. Hibbing is the Foundation Regents University Professor of Political Science (with a courtesy appointment in Psychology) at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where he has taught since 1981. He has been a NATO Fellow in Science, a Senior Fulbright Fellow, recipient of the Fenno Prize, principal investigator for nine National Science Foundation grants, and
Richard Grossman
Richard S. Grossman is Professor of Economics at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, and a Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard University. He is the author of Unsettled Account: The Evolution of Banking in the Industrialized World since 1800 (Princeton UP, 2010) and WRONG: Nine Economic Policy Disasters and What
Gary W. Evans
Gary W. Evans is the Elizabeth Lee Vincent Professor of Human Ecology, Cornell University. He is a developmental and environmental psychologist interested in how the physical environment affects children’s development. Much of his work over the past two decades has focused on the environment of childhood poverty, examining how the accumulation of psychosocial and physical
Lee Epstein
Lee Epstein is the Provost Professor of Law and Political Science and the Rader Family Trustee Chair in Law at the University of Southern California. She is also a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Academy of Political and Social Science. Before moving to USC, she held the Henry
Philippe Bourgois
I am writing a photo-ethnographic book tentatively titled Cornered. The goal is to understand and render more visible the rising human cost of the historically toxic landscape of U.S. inner-city hypersegregation, poverty, and public/private infrastructural abandonment. I just completed five years of fieldwork (2007–2012) in a violently-policed neighborhood dominated by open-air narcotics supermarkets. This ethnography
Eldar Shafir
Eldar Shafir is the William Stewart Tod Professor of Psychology and Public Affairs at Princeton University. His research focuses on descriptive analyses of decision making, and on issues related to behavioral economics. Most recently, he has focused on decision making in the context of poverty and, more generally, on the application of behavioral research to
James E. Rauch
James Rauch is an economist who has done research mainly in the areas of international trade, economic growth and development, and urban economics, and most recently in the area of entrepreneurship. A common theme of much of his work is how non-market interactions affect market outcomes. These non-market interactions may involve interpersonal or interfirm relationships,
Asifa Quraishi-Landes
Asifa Quraishi-Landes is an Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School where she teaches courses in Islamic law and American constitutional law. She has a reputation for illuminating and creative explanations of complex and unfamiliar topics, a talent exhibited in both oral and written form. A 2009 Carnegie Scholar, Quraishi-Landes’ published work addresses
Don Kulick
Don Kulick is Professor of Anthropology at the Department of Comparative Human Development, University of Chicago. His nine books and dozens of articles address a wide range of issues, including how children are socialized to acquire language, indigenous forms of Christianity, the anthropology of literacy, queer theory, language and sexuality, discourses about and practices of
Nina G. Jablonski
Nina G. Jablonski is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at The Pennsylvania State University. She is a biological anthropologist and paleobiologist who conducts research on the evolution of adaptations to the environment in humans and their close primate relatives. Jablonski is especially fascinated by problems of evolution that do not have immediate answers in the fossil
Bruce Grant
Bruce Grant is Professor of Anthropology at New York University. A specialist on cultural politics in the former Soviet Union, he has done fieldwork in both Siberia and the Caucasus. He is author of In the Soviet House of Culture: A Century of Perestroikas (Princeton UP, 1995), a study of the Sovietization of an indigenous
Kristen R. Ghodsee
Kristen Ghodsee earned her Ph.D. at UC Berkeley and is the Director and John S. Osterweis Associate Professor in Gender and Women’s Studies at Bowdoin College. Her research interests include the gendered effects of the economic transition from communism to capitalism and the ethnographic study of postcommunist nostalgia in Eastern Europe. Primarily focusing on the
Steven Epstein
Steven Epstein received his Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of California, Berkeley, and he taught for many years at the University of California, San Diego. Currently he is Professor of Sociology and John C. Shaffer Professor in the Humanities at Northwestern University. He also directs the Science in Human Culture Program, and he is
Laura F. Edwards
Laura F. Edwards received her Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and is now Professor of History at Duke University. Her interests focus on race, gender, labor, and law, especially in the nineteenth-century U.S. South. She is currently working on a legal history of the Civil War and Reconstruction tentatively titled A
James N. Druckman
James N. Druckman is the Payson S. Wild Professor of Political Science and Faculty Fellow at the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University. He is also an Honorary Professor of Political Science at Aarhus University in Denmark. His research focuses on political-preference formation and communication. His recent work examines how citizens make political, economic,
John R. Bowen
John R. Bowen is the Dunbar-Van Cleve Professor in Arts & Sciences and Professor in Anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis. He studied at Stanford and Chicago, and has held visiting positions in Paris and London. He has been studying Islam and society in Indonesia since the late 1970s, and since 2001 has worked
Catherine Besteman
I am currently working on a book project that will address the cultural and symbolic dimensions of the way refuge is imagined locally and globally by displaced Somalis and the communities to which they go in order to advance a new understanding of refugee agency from the perspective of those who move. The book engages