Angelique Haugerud
Angelique Haugerud is professor of anthropology at Rutgers University and former editor-in-chief of the scholarly journals
American Ethnologist (2011–2015) and
Africa Today (1996–1999). She has received research fellowships and grants from the National Science Foundation, Social Science Research Council, American Council of Learned Societies, American Philosophical Society, and Rockefeller Foundation. Haugerud is the author of
No Billionaire Left Behind: Satirical Activism in America (Stanford University Press, 2013); coeditor (with Marc Edelman) of
The Anthropology of Development and Globalization: From Classical Political Economy to Contemporary Neoliberalism (Wiley Blackwell, 2005), coeditor (with M. Priscilla Stone and Peter D. Little) of
Commodities and Globalization: Anthropological Perspectives (Rowman and Littlefield, 2000), author of
The Culture of Politics in Modern Kenya (Cambridge University Press, 1995), and co-producer (with Joe Locarro) of a short documentary film
No Billionaire Left Behind (2013, available for free on Vimeo). She has contributed articles on political satire and wealth inequality to the
Huffington Post and
Stanford University Press blog, and she has been interviewed about both Kenyan and US politics on National Public Radio. She has been elected to the executive boards of the Association for Political and Legal Anthropology, African Studies Association, American Anthropological Association’s General Anthropology Division, and Society for Economic Anthropology.