Ton Robben
Maatschappijwetenschappen - Culturele Antropologie
Utrecht University
Netherlands
Biography
Antonius Robben is Professor of Anthropology at Utrecht University since 1993. He was a member of the Michigan Society of Fellows at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (1986-1989), past President of the Netherlands Society of Anthropology (1994-1999), and a research fellow at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University (2004). He was director of the Iraq Research Project (2006-2010). A recipient of several National Science Foundation and Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation grants, he has conducted years of fieldwork in northeast Brazil on pluriform fishing economies and in Argentina on political violence and collective trauma. At present, he is writing a book about post-authoritarian Argentina.
Research Interest
Culturele antropologie en Latijns Amerika
Publications
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Ferrándiz, F. and Robben, A.C.G.M., eds. 2015. Necropolitics: Mass Graves and Exhumations in the Age of Human Rights. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
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Robben, A.C.G.M., ed. 2017. Death, Mourning, and Burial: A Cross-Cultural Reader. 2nd revised edition. Malden, MA: Wiley Blackwell (1st edition, 2004; reprinted in 2012).
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Robben, A.C.G.M. in press. Argentina Betrayed: Memory, Mourning, and Accountability. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press
