Neni Panourgiá is Affiliated Faculty at the Program in Hellenic Studies. She is an anthropologist, Adj Associate Professor, Academic Adviser at the Justice-in-Education Initiative, and Affiliated Faculty at the Prison Education Program at Columbia University. In the New York prison system she teaches classes on anthropology and ethnography, cultural political thought, and critical medical studies. She works at the nexus of history, politics, and the apparatus of discipline focusing on the multi-valence of confinement. Her monographs Fragments of Death, Fables of Identity. An Athenian Anthropography and Dangerous Citizens: The Greek Left and the Terror of the State have received the Victor Turner Prize for Ethnographic Writing, the Edmund Keeley Book Prize in Modern Greek Studies, the PROSE Award, The Chicago Folklore Prize, and the International Society for Ethnohistory Prize. She has edited East of Attica. Photographs 1930-1997, “COVID-19: Auto-ethnographies of Incarceration,” and co-edited, with George Marcus, Ethnographica Moralia. Experiments in Interpretive Anthropology. Her essays have appeared in Mousse, Documenta, American Ethnologist, angelaki, Public Culture, Anthropology and Humanism, among others. Her latest book Λέρος: Η γραμματική του εγκλεισμού, (in Greek) is in its second edition and forthcoming in English as Foucault’s Node: Leros and the Grammar of Confinement. She is the co-organizer (with Stathis Gourgouris) of the Leros Humanism Seminars https://leros-humanism-seminars.com