Stoler, Ann Laura

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. 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. 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). Her edited volumes include Tensions of Empire: Colonial Cultures in a Bourgeois World (1997, with Frederick Cooper), Haunted by Empire: Geographies of Intimacy in North American History (2006), Imperial Formations (2007, with Carole McGranahan and Peter C. Perdue), and Imperial Debris: On Ruin and Ruination (2013).