Lauren Coyle Rosen is a writer, cultural anthropologist, poet, artist, and lawyer. She is the author of eight books to date, three nonfiction books and five volumes of poetry.
Lauren is currently working on several new books, including a book coauthored with legendary folk-rock musician and feminist icon, Ani DiFranco:
The Spirit of Ani: Conversations with Ani DiFranco on Spirituality, Music, and Freedom
Lauren has two additional forthcoming volumes of poetry: Veils of Apollo and Solarium.
She taught in cultural anthropology at Princeton, where she received the President’s Award in Distinguished Teaching in May 2022. She received a Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Chicago and J.D. from Harvard Law School. Lauren is an external faculty member at the Institute on the Formation of Knowledge at the University of Chicago.
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Books to date:
Fires of Gold: Law, Spirit, and Sacrificial Labor in Ghana (University of California Press, 2020)
Selected for inclusion in the series, "Atelier: Ethnographic Inquiry in the Twenty-First Century."
Law in Light: Priestesses, Priests, and the Revitalization of Akan Spirituality in the United States and Ghana (University of California Press, forthcoming 2024)
[Art to come.]
Hannibal Lokumbe: Spiritual Soundscapes of Music, Life, and Liberation (forthcoming)
[Art to come.]
The Spirit of Ani: Conversations with Ani DiFranco on Spirituality, Music, and Freedom (with Ani DiFranco) (forthcoming)
[Art to come.]
At the Altar of the Winds: Smokeless Mirrors, Volume 1 (2023, out now)
A Thousand Lit Streams: Smokeless Mirrors, Volume 2 (2023, out now)
Storms of Silent Wings: Smokeless Mirrors, Volume 3 (2023, out now)
Sky Ensouled: Prisms, Volume 1 (2023, out now)
Seven Tones of Time: Prisms, Volume 2 (2023, out now)
Veils of Apollo: Prisms, Volume 3 (forthcoming)
Solarium: Prisms, Volume 4 (forthcoming)
Lauren's scholarly essays have appeared in various journals and edited volumes, and she has several forthcoming pieces. Her research has been supported by awards and fellowships from multiple sources, including the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Social Science Research Council, American Council of Learned Societies, American Philosophical Society, Wenner-Gren Foundation, Lincoln Institute, Some Institutes for Advanced Study (SIAS), Institute for Global Law and Policy at Harvard Law School, and Program on the Study of Capitalism at Harvard.
Through Princeton, Lauren's research has been supported by grants from the University Center for Human Values (UCHV), the Humanities Council, the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, the Program in African Studies, and the University Committee on Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences.
In 2018-2019, Lauren was awarded a David A. Gardner '69 Magic Innovation Grant through the Humanities Council at Princeton, to support an assemblage of events for academic years 2019-2020 and 2020-2021. In 2019, she received a grant from UCHV for comparative studies of spirituality, perception, values, and epistemology, under the title, "Corridors of Consciousness." In 2016, she was awarded a 250th Anniversary Fund Award for Innovation in Undergraduate Education at Princeton. She previously served as Departmental Representative (for undergraduate studies) for Anthropology and as a Faculty Fellow for the Fung Global Fellows Program at Princeton.
While at Princeton, Lauren was externally supported by the Athenaeum, the Institute on the Formation of Knowledge at the University of Chicago, and the W.E.B. Du Bois Research Institute in the Hutchins Center at Harvard.
Prior to joining the faculty at Princeton, Lauren was a fellow at the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies and an affiliate of the Princeton Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts. Before this, she was a lecturer on law and social studies at Harvard, as well as a research fellow at the W.E.B. Du Bois Research Institute in the Hutchins Center at Harvard.