The New School Graduate Program in International Affairs

Janet Roitman holds a joint position as an Associate Professor in the Anthropology Department and in the Graduate Program for International Affairs. Roitman has conducted extensive research in Central Africa, focusing specifically on the borders of Cameroon, Nigeria, the Central African Republic and Chad. She has recently published an analysis of the unregulated commerce that transpires on those borders, which inquires into emergent forms of economic regulation in the region of the Chad Basin and considers consequential transformations in the nature of citizenship. Her topical interests are in political economy, the anthropology of economics, the constitution of contemporary economic subjectivities, the anthropology of reason, and the sociology of critique.

66 West 12th St Office 623 1 (212) 206 3524 x2456 roitmanj@newschool.edu

currently teaching

• Informal Economies
  
• Internship
  
• Thesis Supervision
  

in Spring 2009 will be teaching

• Independent Study
  
• Internship
  
• Private Security and the State
  
• Thesis Supervision