Elliott Prasse-Freeman received his PhD from the Department of Anthropology at Yale University. He has conducted long-term fieldwork in Myanmar, and his first book (Rights Refused, Stanford University Press) on social movements in Burma was awarded the 2025 Chr Michelsen Institute’s Public Anthropologist Award. Prasse-Freeman is currently completing a book on Rohingya cultural identity and its fragmentation amidst dislocation and mass violence, with a particular focus on Rohingya maneuvers in the context of post-sovereign governmental regimes that incorporate Human Rights discourse, humanitarian care/exclusion, and biopolitical regulation.
National University of Singapore • Singapore
Teaching and researching in the fields of Sociology and Anthropology.