Alexander Hinton

Alexander Hinton serves as the Director of the Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights and Professor in the Anthropology and Global Affairs Departments at Rutgers University, Newark. 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.

In 2009, Hinton was awarded the Robert B. Textor and Family Prize for Excellence in Anticipatory Anthropology. In 2016, he served as an expert witness at the Khmer Rouge Tribunal.

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.

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.