Ann Laura Stoler

Ann Laura Stoler is Willy Brandt Distinguished University Professor of Anthropology and Historical Studies at The New School for Social Research, as well as the Founding Director of the Institute for Critical Social Inquiry. She has worked for over thirty years on the politics of knowledge, colonial governance, racial epistemologies, the sexual politics of empire, and ethnography of the archives. The author of several books and edited volumes, her commitment to joining conceptual and...See more

Ann Laura Stoler is Willy Brandt Distinguished University Professor of Anthropology and Historical Studies at The New School for Social Research, as well as the Founding Director of the Institute for Critical Social Inquiry. She has worked for over thirty years on the politics of knowledge, colonial governance, racial epistemologies, the sexual politics of empire, and ethnography of the archives. The author of several books and edited volumes, her commitment to joining conceptual and historical research has lead to collaborative work with historians, literary scholars, and philosophers, and most recently in the creation of the journal Political Concepts: A Critical Lexicon , of which she is one of the founding editors. See less