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Carolyn Rouse

Carolyn Rouse

Associate Professor  

Ph.D. University of Southern California 1999

interests
medical anthropology, visual anthropology, resistance, critical race theory, and consciousness; North America

short bio
Carolyn Rouse is an associate professor in the Department of Anthropology and the Center for African American Studies at Princeton University. She is the author of Engaged Surrender: African American Women and Islam (2004) and Uncertain Suffering: Racial Healthcare Disparities and Sickle Cell Disease (UC Press Berkeley). She is finishing a co-written book entitled Televised Redemption: The Media Production of Black Jews, Christians and Muslims. Her current book project, The New Missionaries, examines discourses of charity and development and is tied to her own project building a school in a fishing village in Ghana. In addition to being an anthropologist, Rouse is also a filmmaker. She has produced, directed, and/or edited a number of documentaries including Chicks in White Satin (1994), a film about a lesbian wedding; and Purification to Prozac: Treating Mental Illness in Bali (1998).
 

Teaching

FALL 2009

ANT 350
Desire and Repression: Economic Anthropology and American Pop-Culture

AAS 445/ ANT 445
The Post Colonial Subject

SPRING 2010

Semester leave planned


2008-2009

ANT 208/ REL 208
Religious Mediascapes: Religion, Media, and Culture 

ANT 314
The Anthropology of Development

AAS 403/ ANT 403
Race and Medicine