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Ann Laura Stoler is Willy Brandt Distinguished University Professor of and at Â鶹´«Ã½É«ÇéƬ for Social Research. Stoler is the director of the . She taught at the University of Michigan from 1989-2003 and has been at the Â鶹´«Ã½É«ÇéƬ for Social Research since 2004, where she was the founding chair of its revitalized Anthropology Department. She has worked for some thirty years on the politics of knowledge, colonial governance, racial epistemologies, the sexual politics of empire, and ethnography of the archives. She has been a visiting professor at the École des Hautes Études, the École Normale Supérieure and Paris 8, Cornell University’s School of Criticism and Theory, Birzeit University in Ramallah, Ìýthe Johannesburg Workshop in Theory and Criticism, Irvine’s School of Arts and Literature, and the Bard Prison Initiative. She is the recipient of NEH, Guggenheim, NSF, SSRC, and Fulbright awards, among others. Recent interviews with her are available at, , and, Itinerario, Dis(Closures), as well as.

Her books include Capitalism and Confrontation in Sumatra’s Plantation Belt, 1870–1979 (1985; 1995) Race and the Education of Desire: Foucault’s History of Sexuality and the Colonial Order of Things (1995), Carnal Knowledge and Imperial Power: Race and the Intimate in Colonial Rule (2002, 2010), Along the Archival Grain: Epistemic Anxieties and Colonial Common Sense (2009) and Duress: Imperial Durabilities in Our Times (2016), as well as.the edited volumes Tensions of Empire: Colonial Cultures in a Bourgeois World (with Frederick Cooper, 1997), Haunted by Empire: Geographies of Intimacy in North American History (2006), Imperial Formations (with Carole McGranahan and Peter Perdue, 2007) and Imperial Debris: On Ruins and Ruination (2013) and Thinking with Balibar (Fordham 2020), edited with Jacques Lezra, and Stathis Gourgourias. ÌýHer commitment to joining conceptual and historical research has lead to collaborative work with historians, literary scholars and philosophers, and most recently in the creation of the journal, of which she is one of the founding editors.

Professor Stoler is the Founding Director of the

Degrees Held

PhD 1982, Columbia University

Recent Publications

• Ìý(Oxford University Press, 2022)
• Thinking with Balibar, A Lexicon of Conceptual Practice (Fordham University Press, 2020) ed. with Stathis Gourgouris, and Jacques Lezra.
• , (Duke University Press, 2016)
• Ìý(Duke University Press, 2013)
• "An Interview with Ann Laura Stoler by E. Valentine Daniel," Public Culture 24:3 (2012)Ìý
• Ìý(Princeton Universitry Press, 2009)
• (School for Advanced Research Press, 2007)
• (Duke University Press, 2006)
• Ìý(University of California Press, 2002)
• Ìý(University of California Press,Ìý1997)
• (Duke University Press, 1995)
• Ìý(University of Michigan Press, 1985)

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Performances and Appearances

May 2020 - Ìý(podcast)

Research Interests

Colonial cultures; critical race theory; Ìýpolitical economy; historical methodologies; Southeast Asia; politics of knowledge; histories of sentiment & sexuality; historical ethnography,"fieldwork in philosophy."Ìý