Alexander Laban Hinton

Alexander Laban Hinton is genocide scholar. In 2016, Hinton was an expert witness at the Khmer Rouge Tribunal.[1] Hinton is the author of It Can Happen Here: White Power and the Rising Threat of Genocide in the US. As of 2021, he is a professor at Rutgers University.[2]

Research

Alexander Hinton is the author of Why Did They Kill? Cambodia in the Shadow of Genocide (California, 2005), Colonial Genocide in Indigenous North America, Mass Violence: Memory, Symptom, and Response, Hidden Genocide: Power, Knowledge, Memory, and Transitional Justice: Global Mechanisms and Local Realities after Genocide and Mass Violence.[3]

He is currently working on two book projects related to the Khmer Rouge tribunal, the first of which, Man or Monster? The Trial of a Khmer Rouge Torturer, 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 Rethinking Peace Studies initiative.[4]

Hinton is co-convener of the Global Consortium on Bigotry and Hate (2019-2024).

Hinton started writing a book, "The Anthropological Witness," about his 2016 experience testifying as an expert witness at the Khmer Rouge tribunal in Cambodia.

Research positions

As of 2021, Hinton holds the positions of Director of the Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights, Professor of Anthropology, and UNESCO Chair in Genocide Prevention at Rutgers University.[2]

During 2011–2013, Hinton was President of the International Association of Genocide Scholars. He was a Member/Visitor at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University during the same period.

Prizes

In 2009, Hinton was awarded the Robert B. Textor and Family Prize for Excellence in Anticipatory Anthropology.

Scholarly works

Notable publications by Hinton include:[5]

  • 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
  • The Justice Facade: Trials of Transition in Cambodia (Oxford, 2018)

References

  1. "Alex Hinton". Archived from the original on 2016-08-19.
  2. "About the ISG". Institute for the Study of Genocide. 2021. Archived from the original on 2021-09-21. Retrieved 2022-04-23.
  3. "Alexander Hinton".
  4. "Alexander Hinton". Archived from the original on 2016-08-12.
  5. "Alexander Hinton". Rutgers Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights. Retrieved 2014-07-28.
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