Ann Laura Stoler is a professor of anthropology and historical studies at the Graduate Faculty of The New School for Social Research in New York City
Recent Publications :
* Along the Archival Grain : Epistemic Anxieties and Colonial Common Sense (2009)
* Imperial Formations (2007)
* Haunted by Empire : Geographies of the Intimate in North American History (2006)
* Carnal Knowledge and Imperial Power : Race and the Intimate in Colonial Rule (2002)
* Tensions of Empire : Colonial Cultures in a Bourgeois World (1997)
* Race and the Education of Desire : Foucault’s History of Sexuality and the Colonial Order of Things (1995)
* Capitalism and Confrontation in Sumatra’s Plantation Belt, 1870-1979 (1985)
Profile : Colonial cultures ; critical race theory ; gender studies ; political economy ; historical methodologies ; Southeast Asia.
Research Interests : Politics of knowledge ; colonial pasts/postcolonial presents ; critical race theory ; histories of sentiment & sexuality ; historical ethnography.
Current Courses :
Affective States : On the Politics and Histories of Sentiments
Colonial & Postcolon Disorder(2)
Cultures of Documentation
Doctoral Proseminar I : Project Conceptualization
Ethnography as Fieldwork and Philosophy
Independent Study (Fall 2008)
PhD Proseminar II
Ph.D., Columbia University, 1982
Willy Brandt Distinguished University Professor of Anthropology and Historical Studies