Danilyn Rutherford is the president of the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropologi-cal Research. Before joining Wenner-Gren, she was on the faculty at the University of Califor-nia, Santa Cruz and the University of Chicago. She is the author of three books: Raiding the Land of the Foreigners: The Limits of the Nation on an Indonesian Frontier (Princeton, 2003), Laughing at Leviathan: Sovereignty and Audi-ence in West Papua (Chicago, 2012) and Living in the Stone Age: The Origins of a Colonial Fantasy (Chicago, 2018). She is currently working on ethnographic memoir on disability, subjec-tivity, and sign use in the United States.
