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).