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Carol J. Greenhouse (born 1950) is an American anthropologist. She is the Arthur W. Marks Professor of Anthropology and Chair of the Department of Anthropology at Princeton University. She is also the president of the American Ethnological Society, former editor of its peer-review journal, American Ethnologist, and former president of the Law and Society Association.
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In 2012, Greenhouse was named a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Education and career
Greenhouse received her Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology from Radcliffe College in 1971 and her Ph.D. in Anthropology from Harvard University in 1976. At Harvard, she studied under legal anthropologist Klaus-Friedrich Koch and Mesoamericanist anthropologist Evon Z. Vogt. Following the completion of her Ph.D., Greenhouse joined the faculty at Cornell University. She remained at Cornell until 1991, when she took a position in the Department of Anthropology at Indiana University. Since 2001, she has been a professor in the Department of Anthropology at Princeton University.