Karen Ho

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Anthropology

395 Humphrey Center

301 19th Ave S
Minneapolis, MN 55455

Collegiate Affiliation

Anthropology

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The RIDGS Initiative

Educational Background & Specialties

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Educational Background

Ph.D.: Anthropology, Princeton University
M.A. : Education, Stanford University

Specialties

Ethnography
Feminist studies
Political economy
United States
Cultural studies of finance capital
Finance, globalization, and capitalism
Comparative race and ethnicity

Publications

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Publications

2009. Liquidated: An Ethnography of Wall Street. Duke University Press.
2009. “Disciplining Investment Bankers, Disciplining the Economy: Wall Street’s Institutional Culture of Crisis and the Downsizing of American Corporations.“ American Anthropologist, Vol. 111, No. 2.
2010. “Finance.“ Encyclopedia of Social and Cultural Anthropology, 2nd Ed. Barnard, Alan, and Jonathan Spencer, eds. Routledge.
2005. Situating Global Capitalisms: A View from Wall Street Investment Banks. Cultural Anthropology 20(1): 68-96.
2010. “Outsmarting Risk: From Bonuses to Bailouts.” Anthropology Now. Paradigm Publishers. Vol. 2, No. 1: 1-9.
2015. “The Anthropology of Finance.” The International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2nd edition. Boyer, Dominic, and Ulf Hannerz, eds.
2012. “Finance and Morality.” A Companion to Moral Anthropology. Fassin, Didier, ed. Blackwell Publishers, pp.413-432.
2014. “Corporate Nostalgia: Managerial Capitalism from a Contemporary Perspective.” In Urban, Greg, ed. Corporations and Citizenship. (Part of the Penn Press Series on Democracy, Citizenship, and Constitutionalism). University of Pennsylvania Press, pp. 267-88.
2012. “‘Studying Up’ Wall Street: Reflections on Theory and Methodology.” In Researching Amongst Elites: Challenges and Opportunities in Studying Up. Aguiar, Luis, and Christopher Schneider, eds. London: Ashgate Press, pp.42-69.
2014. “Commentary on Andrew Orta’s ‘Managing the Margins’: The Anthropology of Transnational Capitalism, Neoliberalism, and Risk.” American Ethnologist, Vol.41, No.1, pp.31-37.
2015. Co-authored (with Bear, Yanagisako, and Tsing). “Gens: A Feminist Manifesto for the Study of Capitalism.” Fieldsights - Theorizing the Contemporary Series, Cultural Anthropology Online, March 30, 2015, http://www.culanth.org/fieldsights/650-generating-capitalism.
2015. “Supermanagers, Inequality, and Finance.” Forum on Piketty. Hau: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 5(1): 481-488.
2017. “Finance, Crisis, and Hollywood: Critique and Recuperation of Wall Street in Films about the Great Recession.” Parvulescu, Constantin, ed. Finance and the Moving Image. Routledge, pp.89-104
Jillian Cavanaugh (2019). Introduction: What Happened to Social Facts?. American Anthropologist, 121, 160-167.
(2018). Markets, Myths, and Misrecognitions: Economic Populism in the Age of Financialization and Hyperinequality. Economic Anthropology, 5.
2021. “The Housewife and the Home: Stone Age Economics and Insights For US (and Global North) Economies”, Annals of the Fondazione Luigi Einaudi, 55 (1): 127-148.
2020. “Why the Stock Market is Rising Amidst a Pandemic and Record, Racialized Inequality.” In “Intersecting Crises,” Calynn Dowler, editor, American Ethnologist website, 12 October.
2020. In the Name of Shareholder Value: Origin Myths of Corporations and Their Ongoing Implications, 43 SEATTLE U. L. REV. 609.

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