David Scott
Research Interests
Research Concentrations
Friendship, Moral Theory, Biography
Regions
Caribbean; Sri Lanka
Biography
David Scott is the Ruth and William Lubic Professor and chair of the Department of Anthropology at Columbia University. He is the author of Formations of Ritual: Colonial and Anthropological Discourses on the Sinhala Yaktovil (1994), Refashioning Futures: Criticism after Postcoloniality (1999), Conscripts of Modernity: The Tragedy of Colonial Enlightenment (2004), Omens of Adversity: Tragedy, Time, Memory, Justice (2014), and Stuart Hall’s Voice: Intimations of an Ethics of Receptive Generosity (2017), and coeditor of Powers of the Secular Modern: Talal Asad and his Interlocutors (2006). He is currently completing a book tentatively titled “Irreparable Evil: New World Slavery in Moral History,” and working on a biography of Stuart Hall. Scott is also the founder and editor of the journal Small Axe, and director of the Small Axe Project. In this context he is also the curatorial director of the exhibitions, Caribbean Queer Visualities (Belfast, Glasgow, 2016, 2017), and Visual Life of Social Affliction (Nassau, Miami, Rotterdam, 2019, 2020), director of the Caribbean Modernisms project, and has recently been appointed the curatorial director of the forthcoming Kingston Biennial, 2022, Pressure.
Education
New School for Social Research, PhD in Anthropology, 1989
University of the West Indies at Mona, BSc in Government, 1980
2017. Stuart Hall's Voice: Intimations of an Ethics of Receptive Generosity. Durham: Duke University Press.
2014. Omens of Adversity: Tragedy, Time, Memory, Justice. Durham: Duke University Press.
2004. Conscripts of Modernity: The Tragedy of Colonial Enlightenment. Durham: Duke University Press.
1999. Refashioning Futures: Criticism After Postcoloniality. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
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