M.Laura Martín-Chiappe

M.Laura Martín-Chiappe

Graduated in Social and Cultural Anthropology from the Complutense University of Madrid, and Master in Public Orientation Anthropology from the Autonomous University of Madrid. She has an FPU Scholarship to carry out his doctoral thesis under the direction of Francisco Ferrándiz (CSIC) and Ainhoa Montoya (University of London). Her work focuses on the socio-cultural and political processes that have developed in the family, associative and local, from the exhumation of graves of reprisals by the Franco regime in Spain since 2000. Within her research interests are also the violence exerted against women in the Francoist rearguard and their (re) presentations from the exhumations of mass graves of women; the processes of transitional justice; the places of memory. Since 2014 she was part of the project’s research team CSO2012-32709 “The Underground Past: Exhumations and Memory Politics in Contemporary Spain in Transnational and Comparative Perspective”. Currently she is part of the research project CSO2015-66104-R “Below Ground: Mass Grave Exhumations and Human Rights in Historical, Transnational and Comparative Perspective”., and of UNREST (Unsettling Remembering and Social Cohesion in Transnational Europe) H2020 REFLECTIVE-5-2015, ref. 693523.

She has participated in different research projects around family diversity (LGBT families, ruptures and continuities); Diversity and coexistence in educational centers.

She was part of the team that made the documentary “Sin perder la ternura jamás” (Horacio Muschietti, 2006). Realized by ex-students of the National School of San Isidro, of the Province of Buenos Aires (Argentina), about the histories of life and militancy of ex-alumni and alumni disappeared during the civic-military dictatorship in Argentina (1976-1983) ; It deals with the meaning and commitment to political and social activity in the 60s and 70s and its correlation with militancy in the 90s and early 2000s.

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Antonius Robben

Antonius C.G.M. Robben is Senior Professor of Anthropology at the Department of Anthropology, Utrecht University, the Netherlands. He holds the Core Chair Cultural Anthropology and Latin America since 1993. He has a Ph.D. (1986) from the University of California, Berkeley, and has been a member of the Michigan Society of Fellows at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (1986-1989), and a research fellow at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies of Harvard University (2004). As a recipient of several National Science Foundation and Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation research grants, he has carried out more than five years of fieldwork in Brazil and Argentina. Present Research Interests Latin America (especially Argentina and Chile), Iraq, political, historical and psychological and anthropology, fieldwork methods, political violence, dirty war and counterinsurgency, combat motivation, cultural trauma, social reconstruction after post-authoritarian rule.

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Queralt Solé Barjau

Queralt Solé received her doctorate in Contemporary History in 2008 with her thesis titled “Les fosses comunes a Catalunya 1936-1939.” She was in charge of the mass graves unit of the Democratic Memorial of Catalonia. She is at present Lecturing Professor at the Universidad de Barcelona. She was commissioner of the exhibit “Fosas comunes: un pasado no olvidado” of the Democratic Memorial of Catalonia, together with Assumpció Malgosa (UAB), in April, 2010. She specializes in the Spanish civil war and the Franco dictatorship, particularly in subjects related to repression and exile, as well as remembrance. She is the author of the following books: 30 anys d’història d’europeisme català (1948-1978). El “Contuberni” de Munic (Barcelona, Editorial Mediterrània, 1999, with Pilar de Pedro), A les presons de Franco, (Barcelona, Proa, 2004), Catalunya 1939: l’ultima derrota (Barcelona, Ara Llibres, 2006), Els morts clandestins. Les fosses comunes de la Guerra Civil a Catalunya (1936-1939) (Catarroja, Editorial Afers, 2008), and Fosses comunes i simbologia franquista, (ed., with A. Mayayo i A. Segura, Catarroja, Editorial Afers, 2009).

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Natan Sznaider

Prof. Dr. Natan Sznaider is professor of sociology at the Academic College of Tel-Aviv-Yaffo in Israel. He was born in Germany, educated in Israel and the United States. He has taught at Columbia University in New York and at Munich University in Germany. He is part of an international research team investigating cultural memory in Europe, Israel, and Latin America. His books include Jewish Memory and the Cosmopolitan Order (2011), Human Rights and Memory (2010), Gedächtnisraum Europa: Kosmopolitismus: Jüdische Erfahrung und Europäische Vision (2008), The Holocaust and Memory in the Global Age (2005) and The Compassionate Temperament: Care and Cruelty in Modern Society (2001).

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Alfonso Villalta

Alfonso Villalta

Alfonso Villalta has a degree in History from the University of Castilla-La Mancha and a Master’s in Historical Heritage: Research and management by the same university. He is currently a predoctoral researcher in the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology of the UNED and PhD student in Anthropology under the direction of Professor Julián López García. His thesis work focuses on the analysis of aid relationships between enemies that were established during the civil war and postwar.

He has been part of the research project CSO2012-32709 “The Underground Past: Exhumations and Memory Politics in Contemporary Spain in Transnational and Comparative Perspective”. He is currently part of the research project CSO2015-66104-R “Below Ground: Mass Grave Exhumations and Human Rights in Historical, Transnational and Comparative Perspective”, and of the project “Memory Maps” of the International Center for Memory Studies and Human Rights in the UNED.

 

 

 

Sarah Wagner

Sarah E. Wagner is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at George Washington University. Her areas of expertise include: War and memory; nationalism; biotechnology and the identification of missing persons; post-conflict social reconstruction; forced migration and diaspora; Bosnia and Herzegovina; US military culture.

Selected publications:
  • 2016 – Wagner, S. and R. Kešetović “Absent Bodies, Absent Knowledge: The Forensic Work of Identifying Srebrenica’s Missing and the Social Experiences of Families,” D. Congram, ed., Missing Persons: Multidisciplinary Perspectives and Methods on Finding the Disappeared (Canadian Scholars Press, 2016), 42-59.
  • 2016 – Wagner, S. and Rosenblatt, A.“Known Unknowns: DNA Identifications, the Nation-state, and the Iconic Dead,” in C. Stojanowsk and W. Duncan, eds., Case Studies in Forensic Biohistory: Anthropological Perspectives (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2016).
  • 2015 – Wagner, S. “A Curious Trade: The Recovery and Repatriation of Vietnam MIAs,” Comparative Studies in Society and History  57(1) (2015): 161-190.
  • 2014 – Nettelfield, L.J., and S. Wagner. Srebenica in the Aftermath of Genocide. New York: Cambridge University Press. Bosnian edition, Srebrenica nakon genocida, trans. Senada Kreso (Institute for History, University of Sarajevo, 2015)
  • 2008 – Wagner, S. To Know Where He Lies: DNA Technology and the Search for Srebrenica’s Missing. Berkeley: University of California Press.
  • 2013 – Wagner, S. “The making and unmaking of an unknown soldier,” Social Studies of Science 43(5): 631-656.
  • 2010 – Wagner, S. “Identifying Srebrenica’s missing: The ‘shaky balance’ of universalism and particularism.” In A. Hinton, ed., Transitional Justice: Global Mechanisms and Local Realities after Genocide and Mass Violence. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.
  • 2010 – Wagner, S. “Tabulating loss, entombing memory: The Srebrenica-Potocari Memorial Centre.” In E. Anderson, A. Maddrell, K. McLoughlin, and A. Vincent, eds., Memory, Mourning, Landscape. Amsterdam: Rodopi.
  • 2009  – Wagner, S., and C. Quintyn. “Dismantling a national icon: Genetic testing and the Tomb of the Unknowns,” Anthropology News 50(5): 7-9.
  • 2007 – Wagner, S. and L. Smith, “DNA identification: checking expectations of truth and justice,” Anthropology News, 48(5) (2007): 35.
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Ángel del Río Sánchez

Professor of Social Anthropology at the Universidad de Sevilla, he belongs to the Social Research Group on Action and Participation at the Universidad Pablo de Olavide.

. Del Río’s recent research focuses on social movements and, more specifically, on the social movement for recovering historical memory, the subject on which he is preparing his doctoral thesis. He has also published several texts and presented several papers on this subject at scientific conferences. With the multidisciplinary research team Recovering the Memory of Social History of Andalusia, he has prepared the report on the Audiovisual Bank of Social Memory of Andalusia. He is co-author of the following books: El Canal de los Presos (1940-1962). Trabajos forzados: de la represión política a la explotación económica (Ed. Crítica, 2004), the Didactic Guide of Education in Values “Recuperar la Memoria: el Canal de los Presos” (Ayuntamiento de Sevilla, 2005), Andaluces en los campos de Mauthausen (Centro de Estudios Andaluces, 2006), and La recuperación de la memoria histórica: una perspectiva transversal desde las ciencias sociales (Centro de Estudios Andaluces, 2007). He has participated as scientific adviser –archivist and anthropologist- in the documentaries Presos del Silencio (Intermedia Producciones., 2004) and Los Presos del Canal (Nonio Parejo, 2003), among others, and also as scriptwriter in ¿A dónde voy yo? Inquilinos en situación de abuso (Intermedia Producciones, 2008). At present, he is working on a documentary on the deportation of Andalusian republicans to the Nazi extermination camps.

. Del Río was in charge of research in the Association of Historical Memory and Justice of Andalusia from 2004 to 2008. He is also a member of the General Council of the project “Todos los Nombres” and Coordinator of the project “Mapa de Fosas” in the province of Seville, subsidized by the Council of Justice and Public Administration of the Government of Andalusia. At the Universidad Pablo de Olavide, he was coordinator and professor of the Specialized Training Course Recovering Social Memory: A Transversal Perspective from the Social Sciences during the academic years 2004-2005 and 2005-2006.

2008, he has been the Andalusian delegate of the Amical of Mauthausen and Other Camps and of All the Victims of Nazism in Spain, an entity founded by the Spanish survivors of the French extermination camps in 1962.

Luis Ríos Frutos

 

Luis Ríos Frutos has a degree in Biology and is Assistant Non-doctoral Professor of Anthropology in the Teaching Committee of Anthropology of the Faculty of Science at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. Among his lines of research, the following can be highlighted: the exhumation and identification of human skeletal remains from mass graves and cemeteries from the Spanish civil war, age estimation of skeletal remains of young adults, and anthropometric history in Guatemala and Spain. The following are some of his recent publications:

  • Cardoso HFV, Ríos L. 2011. Age estimation from stages of union in the presacral vertebrae. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 144: 238-247.
  • Ríos L, Bogin B. 2010. An Anthropometric Perspective on Guatemalan Ancient and Modern History. En: Living Standards in Latin American History Height,Welfare, and Development, 1750–2000 (Ricardo D. Salvatore, John H. Coatsworth, Amílcar E. Challú, eds). Harvard University Press. Pp. 273-310.
  • Ríos L, Ovejero JI, Prieto JP. 2010. Identification process in mass graves from the Spanish Civil War I. Forensic Science International 199: E27-E36.
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