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Carolyn Rouse is the Ritter Professor of Anthropology at Princeton University and an HMEI Associated Faculty member in the Grand Challenges Program. Her work interrogates the intersections of race, religion, healthcare disparities, and development through ethnographic and visual anthropological methods.
- Research Interests: Development, medical anthropology, visual anthropology, resistance, critical race theory, consciousness, North America, Ghana, environmental humanities, and environmental policy/ethics.
- Key Affiliations: Department of Anthropology, Princeton University; Environmental Humanities and Environmental Policy and Ethics through HMEI Grand Challenges Program.
Her research critically examines how evidence shapes narratives of social inequality, particularly in healthcare access, racial disparities, and international development. She authored Engaged Surrender, Uncertain Suffering, and Televised Redemption, and created the Ethnographic Data Visualization Lab (VizE Lab) in 2016 to bridge biological and social scientific data.
Recent publications explore necropolitics, liberal bias in the Trump era, and epistemological challenges in evidence-based policy. Her films include Chicks in White Satin (Academy Award-nominated), Purification to Prozac, and Listening as a Radical Act.
- Scientific Awards:
- 1995 American Anthropological Association Award for Excellence (Tales from Arab Detroit)
- Academy Award nomination for Chicks in White Satin
