Michael Herzfeld

Herzfeld specializes in the ethnography of Europe (especially Greece and Italy) and of Thailand. He has served as president of the Modern Greek Studies Association, president of the Society for the Anthropology of Europe, and as editor of American Ethnologist. His research interests include the negotiation of the past, artisanship, inculcation and performance, and the anthropology of knowledge and identity. Among his ten books are The Body Impolitic: Artisans and Artifice in the Global Hierarchy of Value (2004), Cultural Intimacy: Social Poetics in the Nation-State (revised edition, 2005), and Evicted from Eternity: The Restructuring of Modern Rome (2009). He has additionally filmed and produced Monti Moments: Men’s Memories in the Heart of Rome (2007). Herzfeld is co-chair of the Greek Study Group.