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Carol J. 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's scholarship is noted for its engagement with the thought of Émile Durkheim. 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.

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. 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, the completed her dissertation fieldwork in a small Baptist community in the southern United States.

Career

Following the completion of her Ph.D., Greenhouse joined the faculty at Cornell University. 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.

Personal life

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

Books

• Praying for Justice: Faith, Order, and Community in an American Town. Cornell University Press, 1986.
• Law and Community in Three American Towns. Cornell University Press, 1994.
• A Moment's Notice: Time Politics Across Cultures. Cornell University Press, 1996.
• Democracy and Ethnography: Constructing Identities in Multicultural Liberal States (Editor). SUNY Press, 1998.
• Ethnography in Unstable Places: Everyday Lives in Contexts of Dramatic Political Change (Editor). Duke University Press, 2002.
• Ethnographies of Neoliberalism (Editor). University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009.
• The Paradox of Relevance: Ethnography and Citizenship in the United States. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011.