Lawrence Rosen (anthropologist)

{{Short description|American anthropologist (born 1941)}}

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| birth_name = Lawrence Rosen

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| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1941}}

| birth_place = United States

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| fields = Cultural Anthropology, Legal Anthropology

| workplaces = Princeton University

| alma_mater = Brandeis University (B.A.)
University of Chicago (Ph.D.)
University of Chicago (J.D.)

| doctoral_advisor = Clifford Geertz

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| awards = MacArthur Fellowship (1981)
Lewis Henry Morgan Lecture (1985)

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Lawrence Rosen (born 1941) is an American anthropologist and scholar of law. He is the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Anthropology at Princeton University and adjunct professor of law at Columbia University.{{cite web |url=http://www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=sf.profile&person_id=139018 |title=Lawrence Rosen |access-date=2010-02-11 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110605062317/http://www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=sf.profile&person_id=139018 |archive-date=2011-06-05 }} Woodrow Wilson Center, Fellows Biography for Lawrence Rosen, accessed 24 October 2010

Rosen earned his B.A. at Brandeis University in 1963, his Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Chicago in 1968, and his J.D. from the University of Chicago in 1974.[https://anthropology.princeton.edu/people/emeritus-faculty/lawrence-rosen http://www.princeton.edu/anthropology/faculty/lawrence_rosen/] Princeton University, Department of Anthropology Faculty List, accessed 6 February 2018 In 1981 he became one of the first generation of MacArthur Fellows.