Elizabeth is Franz Boas Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University. She is the author of numerous books and essays and a former editor of the academic journal Public Culture. Povinelli’s work focuses on developing a critical theory of late liberalism that would support an anthropology of the otherwise. This task is animated by a critical engagement with the traditions of American pragmatism and continental immanent theory and grounded in the circulation of values, materialities, and socialities within settler liberalisms. Povinelli has also explored these questions in the short film, Karrabing, Low Tide Turning, selected for the 2012 Berlinale International Film Festival, Shorts Competition, When the Dogs Talked, and Windjarrameru, The Stealing C*nt$ which premiered at the 2015 Melbourne International Film Festival. She is one of the founding members of the Karrabing Film Collective. Povinelli lives and works in New York.