Rosalind C. Morris is a Canadian anthropologist and cultural critic. She is Professor of Anthropology at

Columbia University Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhatt ...

. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2022.

Biography

Morris grew up in Canada and spent her childhood in Kimberley, British Columbia and

Vancouver Vancouver ( ) is a major city in western Canada, located in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia. As the List of cities in British Columbia, most populous city in the province, the 2021 Canadian census recorded 662,248 people in the ...

. She completed her BA at the

University of British Columbia The University of British Columbia (UBC) is a public university, public research university with campuses near Vancouver and in Kelowna, British Columbia. Established in 1908, it is British Columbia's oldest university. The university ranks a ...

and received her MA from

York University York University (french: Université York), also known as YorkU or simply YU, is a public university, public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is Canada's fourth-largest university, and it has approximately 55,700 students, 7,0 ...

, and PhD from the

University of Chicago The University of Chicago (UChicago, Chicago, U of C, or UChi) is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois. Its main campus is located in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood. The University of Chicago is consistently ranked among the b ...

. She joined the Columbia faculty in 1994. Morris' early work was centered on the history of modernity and mass media in

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, with a focus on

Thailand Thailand ( ), historically known as Siam () and officially the Kingdom of Thailand, is a country in Southeast Asia, located at the centre of the Indochinese Peninsula, spanning , with a population of almost 70 million. The country is bo ...

. For the past twenty years, her work has focused on exploring the lives of mining communities in

Southern Africa Southern Africa is the southernmost subregion of the African continent, south of the Congo and Tanzania. The physical location is the large part of Africa to the south of the extensive Congo River basin. Southern Africa is home to a number of ...

. She has served as the director of the Institute for Research on Women and Gender and associate director of the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University. Morris is also a documentary filmmaker, poet, and librettist. She made the documentary ''We are Zama Zama'' that shed light on the lives of South Africa's migrant mining workers excavating in the country's abandoned gold mines. She also made her Royal Opera debut in 2015 as co-librettist with

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for Syrian-born composer

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’s opera '' Cities of Salt''. She received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2022, and her proposed topic is a multi-genre book that will reflect on "the lived experience of natural resource extractionism."

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Morris, Rosalind C. Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Columbia University faculty University of British Columbia alumni York University alumni University of Chicago alumni Canadian anthropologists Canadian women anthropologists