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People at SCEPA
SCEPA Advisory Board
Benjamin
Lee
Dean
The New School for Social Research
Benjamin Lee
is Dean of The New School for Social Research, where he was appointed
Professor of Anthropology and Philosophy. Dean Lee was a Professor
of Anthropology and Asian Studies at Rice University, where he also
directed the Transnational China Project at the James A. Baker Institute
of Policy Studies. From 1999 to 2001, he was a Visiting Professor
at the University of Hong Kong in the Department of Comparative
Literature. Lee was the founding Director for the Center for Transcultural
Studies in Chicago and is currently a recipient of a Guggenheim
Fellowship. He holds a Ph.D. in anthropology and an M.A. in human
development from the University of Chicago, and a B.A. in psychology
from Johns Hopkins University.
Dean Lee has
written extensively on the anthropology and philosophy of language,
literary theory, and global cultural studies. He has just finished
a book in Chinese based on his Beijing University lectures entitled,
Quan Qiu Hua Shi Dai de Wen Hua Fen Xi (Cultural Analysis in
an Age of Globalization) and is currently working on a long
term project on cultures of risk and speculation which has resulted
in the recently co-authored (with Edward Lipuma) Derivatives
and the Globalization of Risk (Duke University Press, 2004).
They are finishing a second volume entitled From Primitives to
Derivatives, which examines the cultural dimensions of 'risk
management' in areas ranging from marriage rituals to financial
speculation.
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