Dr. David Henig

Biography

David Henig joined the Department of Cultural Anthropology at Utrecht University as an Associate Professor in 2018. Before joining Utrecht University, David taught at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London and the University of Kent in Canterbury. He studied anthropology at Durham University under the Wadsworth International Fellowship from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. David is an affiliated researcher at the University of Sussex's Asia Research Centre and a research associate at Charles University in Prague. He has also held affiliations with the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle and has had visiting fellowships at the Centre for Southeast European Studies at the University of Graz and the Institute for Global Prosperity at University College London. In 2020, he was selected as a Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Distinguished Scholar. David serves on several editorial boards, including as Editor-in-Chief of the journal History and Anthropology and member of the editorial boards for the Cambridge Journal of Anthropology and the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. His anthropological research interests are eclectic, spanning themes from waste-picking and ravens to Islamic dreams and pilgrimages. His current work examines the social, political, cultural, and environmental aftermaths of wars, focusing on new forms of planetary thought amidst unprecedented anthropogenic transformations.

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