Research Staff

Antonio De Lauri

Research Professor
Latest
26 Apr 2021

New podcast on humanitarian diplomacy
3 Jul 2020

Women Judges in Afghanistan: An Interview with Anisa Rasooli
Projects

Current projects
Apr 2021 - Mar 2026

War and Fun: Reconceptualizing Warfare and Its Experience (WARFUN)
Jan 2019 - Dec 2022

Research Network on Humanitarian Efforts
Jan 2019 - Dec 2022

SuperCamp: Genealogies of Humanitarian Containment in the Middle East
Jan 2019 - Dec 2022

Humanitarian Diplomacy
Jan 2017 - Dec 2021

Women on the Bench: The Role of Female Judges in Fragile States

Publications

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Anthropologist with interest in legal anthropology, freedom, war, humanitarianism

Antonio De Lauri holds a PhD in "Human Sciences: Anthropology of the Contemporary" (2010). At CMI, he has coordinated the research group on humanitarianism (2017-2020) and currently serves as a member of CMI Board. Prior to joining CMI in 2017, he worked in Italy, France, Germany and the US in different positions as researcher, lecturer, postdoc and visiting scholar. He has conducted ethnographic research in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Europe and has published on issues related to post-war reconstruction, human rights, injustice, corruption, judicial practice, war, freedom, borders, and humanitarianism. Antonio's research has been supported by national and international grants and fellowships from the European Research Council (ERC Consolidator Grant), the Research Council of Norway, the Forum Transregionale Studien, and the Fondation Maison des Sciences de l'Homme among others.

Antonio is the founding Editor-in-Chief of the journal Public Anthropologist. In 2018, he also created Public Anthropologist blog. He is the founding General Editor of Berghahn Books' series Humanitarianism and Security.

He is the Director of the Norwegian Centre for Humanitarian Studies, and co-founder of the Anthropology of Humanitarianism Network (AHN) of the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA).

On Twitter: PublicAnthropol

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