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James Ferguson
Susan S. and William H. Hindle Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences
James Ferguson is the Susan S. and William H. Hindle Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences, and Professor in the Department of Anthropology. He previously taught for many years at the University of California, Irvine. His major publications include The Anti-politics Machine: "Development", Depoliticization, and Bureaucratic Power in Lesotho (Cambridge UP, 1990); Expectations of Modernity: Myths and Meanings of Urban Life on the Zambian Copperbelt (U. California Press, 1999); Global Shadows: Africa in the Neoliberal World Order (Duke UP, 2006); and Give a Man a Fish: Reflections on the New Politics of Distribution (Duke UP, 2015).
Education
Ph.D., Harvard University, Social Anthropology (1985)
M.A., Harvard University, Social Anthropology (1981)
B.A., University of California, Santa Barbara, Cultural Anthropology (1979)