Donna M Goldstein

Donna M. Goldstein is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Colorado Boulder and author of Laughter Out of Place: Race, Class, Violence, and Sexuality in a Rio Shantytown, which won the Margaret Mead Award of 2005 (University of California Press, 2003; 2nd edition 2013). She is editor or co-editor of several special journal issues, including themes such as invisible harm (Culture, Theory and Critique 2017), corruption in Latin America (Culture, Theory and Critique 2018), and Trump surrealist politics (HAU 2017). Her interests span across topics such as environmental harm and toxicity, Cold War politics, mass hysteria, and the great ape language debates. Her current work addresses the history and futures of Brazil’s nuclear energy program, scientific communities, and uncertain data. She has written numerous articles intent on understanding the Trump era.