Visiting Faculty
Didier Fassin
Visiting Professor
Ph.D. in Social Science, EHESS (1988)
Doctorate in Medicine, University of Paris 6 (1982)
Institute for Advanced Study
School of Social Science
Einstein Drive
Princeton, NJ 08540
dfassin@ias.edu
short bio
Didier Fassin is an anthropologist and a sociologist who has conducted field studies in Senegal, Ecuador, South Africa and France. Trained as a physician in internal medicine and public health, he dedicated his early research to medical anthropology, illuminating important issues about the AIDS epidemic, social inequalities in health and the changing landscape of global health. More recently he has developed a new domain of inquiry he terms political and moral anthropology, analyzing the reformulation of injustice and violence as suffering and trauma, the expansion of an international humanitarian government, and the contradictions in the contemporary politics of life. His present project, a contribution to an anthropology of the state, explores the political and moral treatment of disadvantaged groups, including immigrants and refugees, through an ethnography of police, justice and prison.
2011-2012
ANT 541 - Topics in Social Anthropology - Ethnography and Social Theory Today
(with João Biehl)
Janet Monge
Visiting Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania (1991)
121 Aaron Burr Hall
monge@princeton.edu
Office hours: M 8-10; and by appt.
interests
physical anthropology, paleoanthropology, skeletal biology; Africa
short bio
Janet Monge has done fieldwork in many locations in Europe, Kenya and Australia. Her primary interest is in the development of methodologies to preserve and broadcast datasets to the physical anthropology community using Computed Tomography, traditional radiology, and human dental micro-anatomy as well as in the distribution of the highest quality castings of human fossils to Universities and Museums all over the world. An example of this work is The Radiographic Atlas of the Krapina Neandertals which she published with Alan Mann. Dr. Monge is also Keeper of Skeletal Collections at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology in Philadelphia. Her dedication to undergraduate research was rewarded with a grant to develop the Museum in Philadelphia as a national center for Native American student research.
Fall 2012
ANT 215/EEB 315 - Human Adaptation (with Page Selinsky)
2011-2012
ANT 215/EEB 315 - Human Adaptation (with Alan Mann)
ANT 442 - Death, Aging, and Mortality: Cultural and Biosocial Perspectives
2010-2011
ANT 206/EEB 306/GEO 208 - Human Evolution (with Alan Mann)
ANT 215/EEB 315 - Human Adaptation (with Alan Mann)
ANT 308 - Forensic Anthropology
2009-2010
ANT 206/EEB 306/GEO 208 - Human Evolution (with Alan Mann)
ANT 215/EEB 315 - Human Adaptation (with Alan Mann)
ANT 308 - Forensic Anthropology
2008-2009
ANT 206/EEB 306/GEO 208 - Human Evolution (with Alan Mann)
ANT 215/EEB 315 - Human Adaptation
ANT 442 - Death, Aging, and Mortality: Cultural and Biosocial Perspectives
Timothy Smith
Timothy Smith
Visiting Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University at Albany-SUNY (2004)
257 Wallace Hall
609-258-5513
tjs6@princeton.edu
Office hours: TBA
interests
identity politics and praxis, anthropology of democracy and electoral politics, environmental citizenship, conflict and violence, indigenous languages and pedagogy (Kaqchikel Mayan and Napo Kichwa), historical ethnography and representation; Latin America (Guatemala and Ecuador) and Europe (France and Spain)
short bio
Timothy Smith is a sociocultural anthropologist who has conducted ethnographic and linguistic fieldwork in Guatemala, Ecuador, and France. He is on research leave this semester from Appalachian State University (UNC), where he is an assistant professor. During his appointment at Princeton, he will be working on a new monograph with the working title of From Indifference to Passion: Elections, Violence, and the Dignity of Truth in Guatemala. It entails an ethnographic study of indigenous voter interests, desires, and electoral participation since the end of the genocidal counterinsurgency war in 1996. The study, a contribution to the anthropology of democracy, explores how participation in electoral politics has provided an organic outlet for indigenous mobilization and declarations, in addition to shaping local understandings of indigenous citizenship and political subjectivities. Given the rise in neoliberal insecurities (ransomed kidnappings, narco-trafficking, armed robberies, femicide, gang violence, etc.) and the subsequent return of the military via iron-fist crime policies, the book also deals with how voting may signal truth-telling acts to complicate particular philosophical explanations for abstention which tend to focus upon disaffection, alienation, and political poverty. Smith is co-editor of three volumes, Mayas in Postwar Guatemala: Harvest of Violence Revisited, After the Coup: An Ethnographic Reframing of Guatemala 1954, and Runuk’ulun ri Q’atb’äl Tzij chi Tz’olöj Ya’/Autoridad y Gobierno Kaqchikel de Sololá. He has just finished a monograph entitled Ethnicity Unplugged: Indigenous Governance and Political Subjectivity in Highland Guatemala, which is under contract.
Fall 2012
LAS 401/ANT 434 – Politics of Ethnicity in Latin America
Elizabeth Mertz
126 Aaron Burr Hall
(224)-622-7177
emertz@princeton.edu
Office hours: T 9-10
short bio
Elizabeth Mertz is a member of the senior research faculty at the American Bar Foundation and John and Rylla Bosshard Professor of Law at the University of Wisconsin Law School. She holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology from Duke University and a J.D. from Northwestern University. She is a Fellow of the American Anthropological Association. Her scholarship focuses on the intersection of law and language, analyzed from an anthropological perspective. Mertz recently published a study of first-year law school education, The Language of Law School: Learning to “Think Like a Lawyer” (Oxford University Press, 2007), which was co winner of the Law & Society Association’s Herbert Jacob Book Prize. She currently serves as editor of the Political and Legal Anthropology Review, following many years as editor of Law & Social Inquiry. She also held leadership positions in the Law and Society Association. In addition to law and language, her interests include legal translation, family law, law and social science, the legal profession, and legal education. Together with other scholars, she is active in the New Legal Realism Project (www.newlegalrealism.org). With Stewart Macaulay and Lawrence Friedman, she is co-editor of Law in Action: A Socio-Legal Reader (Foundation Press, 2007); she also edited The Role of Social Science in Law (Ashgate, 2008). Her current empirical research focuses on post-tenure law professors in the United States.
Spring 2013
ANT 249/LIN 249 - Language and Culture
ANT 349/LIN 349/TRA 349 - Language Translation Across Disciplines