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Robert Desjarlais is a Professor of Anthropology at Sarah Lawrence College in New York. He has authored numerous books, including Subject to Death: Life and Loss in a Buddhist World and The Blind Man: A Phantasmography. His collaborative work with Khalil Habrih on Traces of Violence: Writings on the Disaster in Paris, France explores the enduring impacts of the 2015 Paris attacks within broader contexts of state violence and colonial histories.
His research interests focus on:
- Cultural and Social Anthropology
- Political Violence and Terrorism
- Postcolonial Studies
- Ethnographic Methods
- Memory and Trauma
Their book Traces of Violence received the 2023 William A. Douglas Prize in Europeanist Anthropology from the Society for the Anthropology of Europe. The work combines narrative accounts and photographs to analyze governmental discourses, anti-terror mechanisms, and the haunting legacies of violence across diverse lives and spaces.
