Ann Laura Stoler (born1949), is the Willy Brandt Distinguished University Professor of Anthropology and Historical Studies at The New School for Social Research in New York City. She received her B.A. in anthropology from Barnard College (1972), and her M.A. (1976) and Ph.D. (1982) in anthropology from Columbia University. Stoler taught at the University of Wisconsin-Madison from1983–1989 and at the University of Michigan from1989–2004, before moving to the New School for Social Research. She has been a visiting professor at the École des Hautes Études, the École Normale Supérieure, Cornell University’s School of Criticism and Theory, Birzeit University in Ramallah, the Johannesburg Workshop in Theory and Criticism, and the Bard Prison Initiative. Her influential works include: Race and the education of desire: Foucault’s history of sexuality and the colonial order of things (1995), Carnal knowledge and imperial power: Race and the intimate in colonial rule (2002, 2010), Along the archival grain: Epistemic anxieties and colonial common sense (2009) and Duress: Imperial durabilities in our times (2016).