Faculty Fellow
Professor, Department of Anthropology, Faculty of Arts & Science
Faye Ginsburg is David B. Kriser Professor of Anthropology at NYU, where she also directs the Center for Media; Culture, and History; the Center for Religion and Media; and co-directs the NYU Council for the Study of Disability. An author/editor of four books, many articles, and prestigious awards including MacArthur and Guggenheim Fellowships, she has a longstanding interest in understanding cultural activism, from her first book, the multiple-award winning Contested Lives: The Abortion Debate in an American Community; to her two decades of work as a scholar, advocate, and curator of Indigenous media; to her current project, Disability, Personhood and the New Normal in 21st Century America, the focus of her work at the Humanities Initiative. With anthropologist Rayna Rapp, she has received support for this project from The Spencer Foundation, NYU’s Institute for Human Development and Social Change, and the National Endowment for the Humanities’ Collaborative Research Initiative (2014-16).