James Clifford

Academic Profile

Academic Background:

• Ph.D., History, Harvard University
• M.A., History, Stanford University
• B.A., History, Haverford College

Research Interests: Anthropology, postcolonial studies, and cultural history.

Appointments:

• Professor Emeritus of History of Consciousness, UC Santa Cruz

Publications:

• Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography (University of California Press, 1986)
• Routes: Travel and Translation in the Late Twentieth Century (Harvard University Press, 1997)

Additional Contributions: Influential in postmodernist anthropology.