Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature and Anthropology, City University of New York
Berlin Prize Fellow - Class of Fall 2001 and Class of Fall 2002
Vincent Crapanzano is Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature and Anthropology at the CUNY Graduate Center. He received an AB from Harvard and his PhD from Columbia. He has done field research with the Navajo, with the spirit-possessed in Morocco, with whites in South Africa, with Fundamentalist Christians and legal conservatives in the United States, and now with the Harki in France. His books include: The Fifth World of Forster Bennett: A Portrait of a Navaho; The Hamadsha: An Essay in Moroccan Ethnopsychiatry; Tuhami: A Portrait of a Moroccan; Waiting: The Whites of South Africa; Hermes’ Dilemma and Hamlet’s Desire: On the Epistemology of Interpretation; Serving the Word: From the Pulpit to the Bench, and Imaginative Horizons: An Essay in Literary-Philosophical Anthropology. Among others, he has been a recipient of a Sherman Fairchild fellowship at the California Institute of Technology, a Poynter Fellowship at Yale, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He delivered the Jansen Lectures in Frankfurt am Main on the theme of the anthropology and poetics of the imagination.