Sally Engle Merry


Sally Starr Engle Merry is an American Anthropologist. She is the Silver Professor of Anthropology and Faculty Co-Director of the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice at the New York University School of Law. In the past, she has been president of the American Ethnological Society, the Law and Society Association, and the Association for Political and Legal Anthropology. She is currently a member of the editorial board of.

Education

Merry earned her Bachelor of Arts from Wellesley College before earning her Masters degree at Yale University and PhD at Brandeis University.

Career

Merry joined the faculty at New York University in 2005 after serving as the Marion Butler McLean Professor in the History of Ideas in the Department of Anthropology at Wellesley College. Her book "Human Rights and Gender Violence: Translating International Law into Local Justice" received the 2010 J. I. Staley Prize. Two years later, she co-edited "Governance by Indicators: Global Power through Quantification and Rankings" with three other NYU professors. In 2013, Merry was the recipient of an honorary Doctor of Laws from McGill University.

Personal life

She married Paul H. Merry on June 5, 1967.

Publications

Books