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SHERMAN, TEXAS - Austin College will host a lecture, “Citizens United/Citizens Divided: A Case Study in the Anthropology of Law” by Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar Carol Greenhouse of Princeton University on Monday, November 2, at 4:30 p.m. in IDEA Center, Room 127. The event is free and open to the public.
The Arthur W. Marks Professor of Anthropology at Princeton, Greenhouse also chairs the Anthropology Department there. A sociocultural anthropologist, her interests are in the ethnography of law and politics, and her research focuses on federal power in the U.S., particularly on the ways legal processes take up social knowledge from other settings and relationships. The professor also is interested in the interpretive and comparative aspects of ethnography as interdisciplinary inquiry, especially in relation to law and literature. She earned her bachelor’s and doctoral degrees at Harvard University.
Greenhouse has written on law as a cultural idea in the United States in Praying for Justice and in her co-authored Law and Community in Three American Towns. She also has worked on comparative problems related to law’s cultural legitimacy in A Moment’s Notice: Time Politics Across Cultures and The Paradox of Relevance, on ethnography and citizenship in the U.S. Her edited volumes are Ethnography in Unstable Places and Ethnographies of Neoliberalism.
Greenhouse is the president of the American Ethnological Society, former editor of American Ethnologist, and past president of the Association for Political and Legal Anthropology and the Law & Society Association. She is a member of the American Philosophical Society, and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Founded in 1776, the Phi Beta Kappa Society is the nation’s oldest and most recognized academic honor society. It has chapters at 283 colleges and universities, including Austin College, and more than half a million members throughout the country. Its mission is to champion education in the liberal arts and sciences, to recognize academic excellence, and to foster freedom of thought and expression. Since 1956, the Phi Beta Kappa Society Visiting Scholar Program has offered undergraduates the opportunity to spend time with some of America’s most distinguished scholars.
The Austin College event is co-sponsored by Student Assembly.
Austin College, a private national liberal arts college located north of Dallas in Sherman, Texas, has earned reputation for excellence in academic preparation, international study, pre-professional foundations, leadership development, committed faculty, and hands-on, adventurous learning opportunities. One of 40 schools profiled in Loren Pope’s influential book College’s That Change Lives, Austin College boasts a welcoming community that embraces diversity and individuality, with more than 36 percent of students representing ethnic minorities. A residential student body of 1,250 students and a faculty of more than 100 allow a 12:1 student-faculty ratio and personalized attention. The College is related by covenant to the Presbyterian Church (USA) and cultivates and inclusive atmosphere that supports students’ faith journeys regardless of religious tradition. Founded in 1849, the College is the oldest institution of higher education in Texas operating under original name and charter.
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