Ann Laura Stoler is an American anthropologist and historian, born in 1949, who holds the Willy Brandt Distinguished University Professorship of Anthropology and Historical Studies at the New School for Social Research in New York, after earlier faculty positions at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Michigan. Her work examines colonial and postcolonial power, drawing on and extending Michel Foucault's writing on race and sexuality to argue that intimate domains such as sexuality, domesticity and family life were central sites where colonial racial categories and hierarchies were produced and enforced, rather than private matters separate from colonial governance. Her books include Race and the Education of Desire (1995), Carnal Knowledge and Imperial Power (2002), a study of the Dutch East Indies, and Along the Archival Grain (2009), which reads colonial archives themselves as objects of ethnographic study.
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Birth YearSourced to the subject's own account BirthplaceSourced to the subject's own account Nationality / CultureSourced to the subject's own account Defining ContributionSourced to the subject's own accountColonial and postcolonial studies, historical anthropology, feminist theory, and writings on race and sexuality in the work of Michel Foucault 1 Notable WorkSourced to the subject's own accountRace and the Education of Desire: Foucault's History of Sexuality and the Colonial Order of Things (1995) 1 In the Other Atlases
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American anthropologist
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Ann Laura Stoler (born 1949) is the Willy Brandt Distinguished University Professor of Anthropology and Historical Studies at The New School for Social Research in New York City.
Personal life section
Stoler was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1949 and grew up on the north shore of Long Island, New York.
Books list, second paragraph
Her books include Capitalism and Confrontation in Sumatra's Plantation Belt, 1870-1979 (1985), 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), Along the Archival Grain: Epistemic Anxieties and Colonial Common Sense (2009), and Duress: Imperial Durabilities in Our Times (2016).
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She has made significant contributions to the fields of colonial and postcolonial studies, historical anthropology, feminist theory, and affect. She is particularly known for her writings on race and sexuality in the works of French philosopher Michel Foucault.
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