Alexander Laban Hinton
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Alexander Laban Hinton is an American anthropologist whose work focuses on genocide, mass violence, extremism, transitional justice, and human rights. He has written extensively on the Cambodian genocide and, in 2016, was an expert witness at the Khmer Rouge Tribunal.{{Cite web|url=https://www.newark.rutgers.edu/news/|title=Professor Alex Hinton testifies at UN-backed Tribunal for the Khmer Rouge|website=Rutgers University|language=en|access-date=2022-07-01}} He has authored many books, including, It Can Happen Here: White Power and the Rising Threat of Genocide in the US {{Cite web|title=It Can Happen Here |url=https://nyupress.org/9781479808014/it-can-happen-here |access-date=2022-01-17 |website=New York University Press |language=en-US}} and Anthropological Witness: Lessons from the Khmer Rouge Tribunal.{{Cite web |title=Anthropological Witness|url=https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501765698/anthropological-witness/#bookTabs=1 |access-date=2023-01-07 |website=Cornell University Press |language=en-US}} {{As of|2024}}, he is a distinguished professor at Rutgers University.{{Cite web|title=Alex Hinton |url=https://sasn.rutgers.edu/about-us/faculty-staff/alex-hinton |access-date=2021-06-24 |website=Rutgers SASN |language=en}} He serves as an academic advisor to the Documentation Center of Cambodia, as well as on the international advisory boards of journals such as the Genocide Studies and Prevention, Journal of Genocide Research, and Journal of Perpetrator Research.
Research
Alexander Hinton is the author of seventeen books and he is co-editor of the CGHR-Rutgers University Press book series, Genocide, Political Violence, Human Rights. He also co-organized the 2014-2016 Rethinking Peace Studies initiative and is co-convener of the Global Consortium on Bigotry and Hate (2019–2024). Hinton's 2022 book, Anthropological Witness, centers on his 2016 experience testifying as an expert witness at the Khmer Rouge tribunal in Cambodia. Essays by Hinton include the application of this type of anthropological analysis to extremist patterns in contemporary cultures, such as the development of MAGA and the Project 2025 objectives in the USA political culture.Hinton, Alex, [https://theconversation.com/why-does-trump-want-to-abolish-the-education-department-an-anthropologist-who-studies-maga-explains-4-reasons-248818 Why does Trump want to abolish the Education Department? An anthropologist who studies MAGA explains 4 reasons], The Conversation, February 7, 2025
= Research positions =
During 2011–2013, Hinton was president of the International Association of Genocide Scholars.{{Cite web|url=https://genocidescholars.org |title=IAGS |website=Genocide Scholars |language=en |access-date=2022-07-01}} He was a member/visitor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey during the same period. {{As of|2023}}, Hinton holds the positions of director of the Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights,{{Cite web|url=https://global.rutgers.edu/cghr |title=CGHR |website=Rutgers University |language=en |access-date=2021-06-18}} Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, and UNESCO Chair in Genocide Prevention at Rutgers University.
Awards and prizes
Among other awards, Hinton received the 2009 Robert B. Textor and Family Prize for Excellence in Anticipatory Anthropology {{Cite web|url=https://www.newark.rutgers.edu/news/ |title=Textor Prize |website=American Anthropological Association |language=en |access-date=2022-07-01}} and the 2022 Anthropology in the Media Award {{Cite web|url=https://www.newark.rutgers.edu/news/alex-hinton-wins-anthropology-media-award-raising-awareness-genocide-and-human-rights |title=Alex Hinton Wins Anthropology in the Media Award for Raising Awareness of Genocide and Human Rights |website=Rutgers University |language=en |access-date=2023-01-08}} from the American Anthropological Association
Scholarly works
Notable publications by Hinton include:
- 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){{Cite web|title=Night of the Khmer Rouge |url=http://d.dccam.org/Publication/Outreach/pdf/Night_of_the_Khmer_Rouge.pdf/ |access-date=2022-06-24 |website=Paul Robeson Gallery |language=en-US}}
- 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}}{{Cite web |title=Hidden Genocides |url=https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/hidden-genocides/9780813561639 |access-date=2022-06-24 |website=Rutgers University Press |language=en-US}}
- Colonial Genocide in Indigenous North America (co-edited, Duke, 2014) {{ISBN|978-0-8223-5763-6}}{{Cite web |title=Colonial Genocide in Indigenous North America |url=https://www.dukeupress.edu/colonial-genocide-in-indigenous-north-america |access-date=2022-01-17 |website=Duke University Press |language=en-US}}
- Genocide and Mass Violence (co-edited, Cambridge, 2015) {{ISBN|9781107694699}}{{Cite book|title=Genocide and Mass Violence |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/genocide-and-mass-violence/821234D2CCBD5FD3ACDBBCF185718560 |access-date=2022-06-17 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=2014 |doi=10.1017/CBO9781107706859 |isbn=9781107706859 |language=en-US|editor-last1=Hinton |editor-last2=Hinton |editor-first1=Devon E. |editor-first2=Alexander L. }}
- Man or Monster? The Trial of a Khmer Rouge Torturer (Duke, 2016) {{ISBN|978-0-8223-6258-6}}{{Cite web|title=Man or Monster? |url=https://www.dukeupress.edu/man-or-monster/ |access-date=2022-06-24 |website=Duke University Press |language=en-US}}
- The Justice Facade: Trials of Transition in Cambodia (Oxford, 2018) {{ISBN|9780198820956}}
- Rethinking Peace: Discourse, Memory, Translation, and Dialogue (co-edited, Rowman and Littlefield, 2019) {{ISBN|9781786610386}}{{Cite book|title=Rethinking Peace |url=https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781786610386/Rethinking-Peace-Discourse-Memory-Translation-and-Dialogue |access-date=2022-06-24 |website=RW Press |language=en-US}}
- It Can Happen Here: White Power and the Rising Threat of Genocide in the US (NYU, 2021) {{ISBN|9781479808052}}{{Cite web |title=It Can Happen Here|url=https://nyupress.org/9781479808014/it-can-happen-here |access-date=2022-01-17 |website=New York University Press |language=en-US}}
- Anthropological Witness: Lessons from the Khmer Rouge Tribunal (Cornell, 2022) {{ISBN|9781501765698}}
- Perpetrators: Encountering Humanity's Dark Side (co-authored, Stanford, 2023) {{ISBN|9781503634275}}{{Cite book |title=Perpetrators|url=https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=34348 |access-date=2023-01-07 |publisher=Stanford University Press | isbn=9781503630673 |language=en-US| last1=Hinton | first1=Alexander Laban | year=2023 }}
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External links
- {{Official website|https://sasn.rutgers.edu/alex-hinton}}
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