<p>Anthropology of Law and Politics; Ethnic & Religious Communal Coexistence and Conflict; Archaeology of Religion; Socialist and Post-Socialist Societies; Nationalism, Citizenship & Constitutionalism; Nomads; East Europe; India; Iroquois; U.S.A.; Comparative Research</p>
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Email Address:
rhayden@pitt.edu
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Hayden
Publications:
2013 From Yugoslavia to the Western Balkans: Studies of a European Disunion, 1991-2011. Leiden: Brill
2013 “Fahrenheit 96.8: The Cold-Blooded Mass destruction of ‘Unsuitable” Books in Croatia in the 1990s” (review essay on Knjigocid: Uništavanje knjige u Hrvatskoj 1990-ih, by Ante Lešaja). Slavic Review
2013 “Imagined Commonalities: The Invention of a Late Ottoman ‘Tradition’ of Coexistence” (with Slobodan Naumović). American Anthropologist.
Qualifications:
PhD, State University of New York at Buffalo, 1981
JD, State University of New York at Buffalo, 1978
Department:
Anthropology
Region:
South Asia
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Professor
Biography:
<p>Robert Hayden is an anthropologist of law and politics, and has done extensive work on the reconstruction of states and nations in the former Yugoslavia, following extensive fieldwork there. He has also done fieldwork in India and among the Senecas of New York state, and has as well written on issues concerning the American legal system and its role in society. Professor Hayden also holds appointments on the faculty of the Law School and in the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, and is Director of the Center for Russian and East European Studies.</p>
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