Alisse Waterston Alisse Waterston is Presidential Scholar and Professor of Anthropology at John Jay College, City University of New York. She is the author most recently of Light in Dark Times: The Human Search for Meaning, illustrated by Charlote Corden (University of Toronto Press, 2020). She is past-President of the American Anthropological Association (2015-2017), and Editor of the Intimate Ethnography series (Berghahn Books). Read More Read Less