Carol J. Greenhouse
Carol J. Greenhouse | |
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| Born | Carol Jane Greenhouse January 4, 1950 |
| Spouse | Alfred C. Aman, Jr. |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Harvard University (BA) Harvard University (PhD) |
| Doctoral advisors | Evon Z. Vogt Klaus-Friedrich Koch |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Anthropology, Legal Anthropology |
| Institutions | Indiana University Bloomington Cornell University Princeton University |
Carol Jane Greenhouse (born January 4, 1950) is an American anthropologist known for her scholarship on law, time, democracy, and neoliberalism. 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. 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).
Greenhouse, whose scholarship is notable for its engagement with the thought of Émile Durkheim, has been haled as one of the leading legal anthropologists of her generation. 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 and member of the American Philosophical Society.