Princeton University

Assistant Professor

Ph.D. Socio-Cultural Anthropology, University of California-Berkeley, 2005

interests
medicine and psychology, ethics and subjectivity, law and empire, peace and conflict, migration and borderlands, history and memory, film and visual culture, social theory and ethnography, Greece and Cyprus

short bio
Elizabeth Davis is Assistant Professor of Anthropology, in association with Hellenic Studies. Before joining the Princeton faculty in 2009, she taught in the Department of Cultural Anthropology at Duke University, and held a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Society of Fellows at Columbia University. Her work in Greece and Cyprus focuses on the psyche and the body, their implication in social conflict and in the ties that bind people to communities and states. Her book, Bad Souls: An Ethnography of Madness and Responsibility in Greek Thrace, forthcoming from Duke University Press, explores humanitarian psychiatric reform in the borderland between Greece and Turkey. She is currently starting a new project on suspicion, intelligence, and post-conflict statecraft in Cyprus, involving ethnographic research on both sides of the newly-porous border between north and south, as well as a documentary film on cross-border movement, surveillance, and memory.