Alexander Laban Hinton

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Alexander Laban Hinton serves as the Director of the Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, and UNESCO Chair in Genocide Prevention at Rutgers University. In 2011-2013, he served as the President of the International Association of Genocide Scholars, and currently he serves as the UNESCO Chair in Genocide Prevention. Alexander Hinton has been the author and editor of over a dozen books, including, most recently, It Can Happen Here: White Power and the Rising Threat of Genocide in the US (NYU, 2021), The Justice Facade: Trials of Transition in Cambodia (Oxford, 2018), and Man or Monster? The Trial of a Khmer Rouge Torturer (Duke, 2016).

In 2009, Hinton was awarded the Robert B. Textor and Family Prize for Excellence in Anticipatory Anthropology. From 2011 to 2013, Professor Hinton was also a Member/Visitor at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. In 2016, he served as an expert witness at the Khmer Rouge Tribunal.^[1] Professor Hinton is also the co-convener of the Global Consortium on Bigotry and Hate (2019-2024). At the moment, he is completing a book, "The Anthropological Witness," and his 2016 experience testifying as an expert witness at the Khmer Rouge tribunal in Cambodia.

Biography[]

Alexander Hinton is the author of (California, 2005), , , , and .^[2]

He is currently working on two book projects related to the Khmer Rouge tribunal, the first of which, , is forthcoming with Duke University Press in the fall of 2016. He serves as an Academic Advisor to the Documentation Center of Cambodia, on the International Advisory Boards of journals such as the Genocide Studies and Prevention, Journal of Genocide Research, and Journal of Perpetrator Research, and as co-editor of the CGHR-Rutgers University Press book series, "Genocide, Political Violence, Human Rights." He also participated in co-organizing the 2014-2016 initiative.^[3]

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Scholarly works[]

• Biocultural Approaches to the Emotions (Cambridge University Press, 1999) ISBN 9780521655699
• Genocide: An Anthropological Reader (Blackwell, 2002) ISBN 978-0-631-22355-9
• Annihilating Difference: The Anthropology of Genocide (California, 2002) ISBN 9780520927575
• Why Did They Kill? Cambodia in the Shadow of Genocide (California, 2005) [Awarded 2008 Stirling Prize] ISBN 9780520241794
• Night of the Khmer Rouge (Paul Robeson Gallery, 2007)
• Genocide: Truth, Memory, Representation (Co-edited, Duke, 2009)
• Transitional Justice: Global Mechanisms and Local Realities after Genocide and Mass Violence (Rutgers, 2010) ISBN 978-0-8135-4761-9
• Hidden Genocides: Power, Knowledge, Memory (Co-edited, Rutgers, 2014) ISBN 978-0-8135-6162-2
• Colonial Genocide in Indigenous North America (co-edited, Duke, 2014) ISBN 978-0-8223-5763-6
• Genocide and Mass Violence (co-edited, Cambridge, 2015) ISBN 9781107694699
• Man or Monster? The Trial of a Khmer Rouge Torturer (Duke, 2016) ISBN 978-0-8223-6258-6

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• [1] at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
• https://web.archive.org/web/20160723195441/http://dga.rutgers.edu/index.php/faculty/member/alexander-hinton/