Eric A Stein

Eric Stein has been a member of the faculty at The Evergreen State College since 2007. He received his B.A. in Anthropology and Philosophy from the University of Wisconsin–Madison (1995) and his Ph.D. in the Doctoral Program in Anthropology and History from the University of Michigan–Ann Arbor (2005).  He came to Evegreen after completing a one year anthropology post-doc at Oberlin College (2005-2006) and a one year post-doc in the University of Michigan Institute for Historical Studies (2006-2007).  His dissertation, entitled “Vital Times: Power, Public Health, and Memory in Rural Java,” considers how the political conditions of colonialism, nationalism, and anti-communism each gave rise to particular models of rural population engineering in twentieth century Indonesia.  He is more broadly interested in medical anthropology, medical history, science and technology studies, semiotics, memory, material culture, and power.

Eric has studied and conducted research abroad for extended periods of time in Indonesia, The Netherlands, and Thailand.