Ann Laura Stoler
Ann Laura Stoler is the Willy Brandt Distinguished University Professor of Anthropology and Historical Studies at The New School for Social Research in New York City. She is known in the field of affect and postcolonial studies for her writings about the treatment of race and sexuality in the works of French philosopher Michel Foucault.Education and career
Stoler holds a Ph.D. in anthropology from Columbia University.
Stoler has worked on issues of colonial governance, racial epistemologies, and the sexual politics of empire. Her regional focus has been Southeast Asia and in her recent work extends to Palestine and France. She was a visiting distinguished professor at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales and at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris and is a recipient of Fulbright, Guggenheim, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Science Foundation and Social Science Research Council fellowships.
Stoler is the Founding Director of the Institute for Critical Social Inquiry at The New School for Social Research and convenes the journal and seminar series Political Concepts, A Critical Lexicon.Publications
Books
- Capitalism and Confrontation in Sumatra's Plantation Belt, 1870-1979
- Race and the Education of Desire: Foucault's History of Sexuality and the Colonial Order of Things
- Carnal Knowledge and Imperial power: Race and the Intimate in Colonial Rule
- Along the Archival Grain: Epistemic Anxieties and Colonial Common Sense
- Duress: Imperial Durabilities in Our Times
Edited collections
- Tensions of Empire: Colonial Cultures in a Bourgeois World with Frederick Cooper
- Haunted by Empire: Geographies of Intimacy in North American History
- Imperial Formations with Carole McGranahan and Peter C. Perdue
- Imperial Debris: On Ruin and Ruination
