Description
Dr Caroline Bennett is a socio-cultural anthropologist, who works on the Cambodian genocide, with a particular focus on mass graves and their dead, and
relationships to, and the politics of, those dead in contemporary Cambodia. She also works on the treatment of human remains after mass death, research
emerging from her previous training as a forensic anthropologist, and short experience working on forensic humanitarian projects in Bosnia-Herzegovina and
Iraq. As well as being an anthropologist, Caroline is an advisory board member of the International Association of Genocide Scholars, and between December
2021 and August this year, she was Director of the All-Party Parliamentary Group for the Prevention of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity, in the UK
parliament. She holds a BSc in Anthropology (University College London), MSc in Forensic Anthropology (Bradford University), MA in Visual Anthropology (University of Kent), and a PhD in Social Anthropology (University of Kent). She is currently a Lecturer in Social Anthropology, with a focus on Human Rights, at the University of Sussex, UK, and an Associate Research fellow at Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University of
Wellington, New Zealand.
To cite this episode, you can use the following citation: Bennett, C. (2023) Interview on The Death Studies Podcast hosted
by Michael-Fox, B. and Visser, R. Published 1 June 2023. Available at: www.thedeathstudiespodcast.com,
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