Carol J. Greenhouse

Greenhouse, whose scholarship is notable for its engagement with the thought of Émile Durkheim, has been haled as one of the leading legal anthropologists of her generation. Her books and articles have earned various honors, including the Law and Society Association's Harry Kalven Prize and the Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and Humanities' James Boyd White Award. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and member of the American Philosophical Society.

Early life and education Greenhouse was born on January 4, 1950, in New Haven, Connecticut, H. Robert and Dorothy E. Greenhouse.

In 1967, her first year at Radcliffe College, she enrolled in an anthropology of law seminar taught by legal anthropologist Klaus-Friedrich Koch, who would become her undergraduate and graduate adviser alongside Mesoamerican anthropologist Evon Z. Vogt. During this period she was awarded a visiting Chair of American Civilization at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) in Paris for the academic year 1998–99, where she taught a seminar on American ethnography at the intersection of law and literature. She is a sister of Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Linda Greenhouse.

Books Praying for Justice: Faith, Order, and Community in an American Town. Cornell University Press, 1986. Law and Community in Three American Towns. Cornell University Press, 1994. A Moment's Notice: Time Politics Across Cultures. Cornell University Press, 1996. Democracy and Ethnography: Constructing Identities in Multicultural Liberal States (Editor). SUNY Press, 1998. Ethnography in Unstable Places: Everyday Lives in Contexts of Dramatic Political Change (Editor). Duke University Press, 2002. Ethnographies of Neoliberalism (Editor). University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009. The Paradox of Relevance: Ethnography and Citizenship in the United States. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011.