by Danilyn Rutherford

February 25^th, 5:00pm – 6:00pm, Ethnography Lab, room 330

Danilyn Rutherford is the president of the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research.  Earlier in her career, she was associate professor of anthropology at the University of Chicago and professor and chair of anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is the author of Raiding the Land of the Foreigners: The Limits of the Nation on an Indonesian Frontier(Princeton, 2003), Laughing at Leviathan: Sovereignty and Audience in West Papua (Chicago, 2012) and Living in the Stone Age: The Origins of a Colonial Fantasy (Chicago, 2018).  Her fourth book, Beautiful Mystery: Life in a Wordless World, is forthcoming from Duke University Press in Fall 2025.