Antonio De Lauri
Current projects
War and Fun: Reconceptualizing Warfare and Its Experience (WARFUN)
Research Network on Humanitarian Efforts
SuperCamp: Genealogies of Humanitarian Containment in the Middle East
Humanitarian Diplomacy
Women on the Bench: The Role of Female Judges in Fragile States
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Anthropologist with interest in legal and political anthropology, war, and 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 served as a member of CMI Board (2019-2022). 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 war and post-war, soldiers, humanitarianism, human rights, corruption, judicial practice, and borders. 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.
Antonio 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).
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