Anthropology Ph.D. Program, University of Chicago
| Research Interests | |
|---|---|
| Academic cultures, knowledge production, academic labor, neoliberalism, ideologies of the future, semiotics of textual production, history and sociology of literary theory and philosophy, France, United States. | |
| Working dissertation title: Hostile Futures: Philosophy and university politics in contemporary France. | |
| Education | |
| 2005-present | Doctoral Program in Sociocultural Anthropology, University of Chicago.
In progress. |
| 2007 | M.A. Anthropology, University of Chicago
Thesis: Literary theory as commodity & literary theorists as brands |
| 2000-2004 | A.B. Anthropology, Cornell University Thesis: The Silent Social Order of the Theory Classroom summa cum laude with distinction in all subjects |
| Honors | |
| 2010-11 | Doctoral Exchange Fellowship, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales |
| 2005-8 | Graduate Research Program Fellowship, National Science Foundation |
| Publications | |
| 2011 | “Comment ‘La Pensée’ Se Fait Monde Malgré Tout.” [How ‘Thought’ Becomes World After All.] Forthcoming in proceedings of Colloque Philosophie et Frontières. |
| 2011 | Review of L’Enseignement Supérieur entre Nouvelle Gestion Publique et Crise Systèmique [Higher Education between New Public Management and Systemic Crisis], Annie Vinokur and Carole Sigman, eds. Forthcoming in Learning and Teaching. |
| 2010 | Experience, Reflexive Socialization and Disciplinary Order in Anthropology, Michigan Discussions in Anthropology 18:1-38. |
| 2010 | The Limits of Theory: Idealism, Distinction and Critical Pedagogy in Chicago Anthropology, Michigan Discussions in Anthropology 18:324-377. |
| 2008 | The Silent Social Order of the Theory Classroom, Social Epistemology 22(2):165-196. |
| 2008 | Anthropology as Trauma and as Transformation, Anthropology News 49(1):13-14. |
| 2007 | On the Socialization of Graduate Students in Anthropology, Anthropology News 48(4):56. |
| Presentations | |
| 2012 | "Emancipation and the relations of intellectual production in French radical philosophy." Knowledge/Value Workshop, University of Chicago. |
| 2011 | "The problems of experience: precarious work in French public universities." Invited session on Flexible Labor in Academia. AAA Annual Meetings, Montreal. |
| 2011 | "French academic precarity and the politics of moral crisis." Graduate Student Symposium on Labor, Northwestern University. |
| 2011 | "First as fantasy, then as farce: Internationalism in the European university movement." Rethinking Europe, Center for German and European Studies, University of Minnesota. |
| 2011 | "Emancipation at the University of Paris-8, between occupied space and philosophical text." Anthropology of Europe Workshop, University of Chicago. |
| 2010 | "On an anthropology of a philosophy of emancipation." Paris Center Workshop, University of Chicago. |
| 2010 | "A break in the circularity of utopia: On the temporary persistence of the Ronde Infinie des Obstinés." EASA Conference, Maynooth, Ireland. |
| 2010 | "French universities and the politics of resistance and resignation." Poster presentation displayed at "Beneath the University, the Commons," University of Minnesota. |
| 2009 | "Ethnographic preface to an epistemology of university models in recent French politics." Paris Center Workshop, University of Chicago. |
| 2009 | "Politicized intellectual collectives" (with Andrew Yale). Reworking the University, Minneapolis, MN. |
| 2008 | "The will to knowledge and cultural crisis in universities." Rethinking the University, Minneapolis, MN. |
| 2007 | "Liminality, socialization, democratization (and ambivalence): Rethinking graduate education." AAA Annual Meetings, Washington, DC. |
| 2007 | "Knowledge as Ideology: Lycée philosophy classes and the category of the intellectual." Semiotics workshop, University of Chicago. |
| 2007 | "The case of the Bad Writing Contest: Literary theory as commodity & literary theorists as brands." Michicagoan, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. |
| 2006 | "Bureaucratic order and social purification in literary theory classrooms." AAA Annual Meetings, San Jose. |
| 2005 | "Ethnography of literary theory classrooms." Social Science & Higher Education Network meeting, Herencia, Spain. |
| Scholarly organization | |
| 2007, 2011-12 | Coordinator, Anthropology of Europe Workshop, University of Chicago |
| 2006-10 | Editor, "Graduate Socialization in Anthropology," a pair of edited collections, appearing in Michigan Discussions in Anthropology and Anthropology News. |
| 2007 | Organizer, "Trauma, transformation, and tactics: Rethinking the socialization of graduate students in anthropology," AAA Annual Meetings, Washington, DC. |
| 2007 | Organizer, "Regards Croisés: Crossing Cultural Borders," Collaborative workshop with University of Chicago and University of Paris X. |