New members join SIFK Faculty and External Faculty Group
Please join us in welcoming new SIFK faculty members Michael Greenstone and Adam Cifu, as well as Princeton’s Lauren Coyle Rosen to the External Faculty Group (EFG)!
Professor Michael Greenstone
Professor Greenstone is the Milton Friedman Professor in Economics and the College; Director of the Becker Friedman Institute; Director of the Energy Policy Institute at Chicago (EPIC); and Director of the Energy and Environment Lab at the University of Chicago Urban Labs. A renowned environmental ecologist, he previously served as the Chief Economist for President Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers and directed the Brookings Institution’s Hamilton Project, which studies policies to promote economic growth. The SIFK welcomes the opportunity to engage with Professor Greenstone on growth of knowledge around ecological and environmental studies-- and resistance to that knowledge, and its embeddedness in other factors.
Dr. Adam Cifu, MD
Dr. Cifu is a general internist who divides his time between clinical practice, medical student education, and scholarly work related to evidence-based medicine. Inter alia, he directs a course for fourth-year medical students, “Critical Appraisal of the Landmark Medical Literature,” and a course for first-year students, “Introduction to Medical Evidence.” He is the co-author of a textbook on clinical reasoning for medical students, Symptom to Diagnosis and a book about medical decision for the lay audience, Ending Medical Reversal. The SIFK looks forward to the perspective that he will bring on knowledge formation in medical diagnosis and practice.
Professor Lauren Coyle Rosen
Lauren Coyle Rosen is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Princeton University. She received a Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Chicago (2014) and a J.D. from Harvard Law School (2008). Her research and teaching interests lie at the intersections of legal and political anthropology, critical theory, historical ethnography, epistemology, spirituality, subjectivity, psychoanalysis, capitalism, and symbolic power. Her geographical focus is on Ghana and, more broadly, on Africa at large. Prior to assuming her professorship at Princeton, she was a fellow at the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, a lecturer on law and social studies at Harvard, and a fellow at Harvard Hutchins Center’s W.E.B. Du Bois Research Institute. The SIFK welcomes Coyle Rosen to the External Faculty Group and anticipates engaging with her on epistemological concerns in Africa, alchemy, optics, and spiritual knowledge.