Post:	Senior Lecturer in Anthropology
Other posts:	Senior Lecturer in Anthropology (Development Studies - CDE)
	Lecturer in Anthropology (Jvrc)
Location:	Arts C C250
Email:	N.P.Eltringham@sussex.ac.uk
Telephone numbers
Internal:	8039 or 7185
UK:	(01273) 678039 or (01273) 877185
International:	+44 1273 678039 or +44 1273 877185

Biography

Nigel Eltringham received a first degree in History from St Andrews (1993), an MPhil in Development Studies from Cambridge (1995), and a PhD in Social Anthropology from the School of Oriental and African Studies, London (2001).  He also taught at SOAS, where he held an ESRC postdoctoral research fellowship.  Nigel joined the Anthropology Department in 2003.

Research

Between 1996 and 1999, Nigel carried out doctoral research among members of the political class in Rwanda and the Rwandan diaspora in Europe. His research explored how these two constituencies accounted for the 1994 genocide and the ways in which they shared epistemological assumptions and representational practices beyond substantive dissension. The results of this research have been published as Accounting for Horror: Post-Genocide Debates in Rwanda (Pluto, 2004). He has, in addition, published on the dilemmas of researching contexts of violence and genocide (in The Ethics of Anthropology Debates and Dilemmas, Routledge, 2003).

Nigel is currently conducting research on the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (Arusha, Tanzania) supported by the Nuffield Foundation and the British Academy.

Nigel is a member of the Justice and Violence Research Centre.

Recent DPhil Students

Gavin Weston - Lynchings in Todos Santos Cuchumatán: A Genealogy of Post-Conflict Violence (awarded 2007)
Eugenia Zorbas - Reconciliation in Post-Genocide Rwanda: Discourse and Practice (awarded 2009)
Lyndsay McLean Hilker - Living Beyond Conflict? Identity, Alterity & Reconciliation among Rwandan Youth (awarded 2009)

Current DPhil Students

Evi Chatzipanagiotidou - From Difference' to ‘Sameness': Peace Movements in Southern Cyprus
Larissa Begley - Negotiating Identity: The Reconstruction, Exploitation and Reconciliation of the Hutu/Tutsi Dichotomy in Northwest Rwandan and Eastern Congo
Andrea Szkil - 'Biologically Dead, Socially Alive': Forensic Specialists' Work with Human Remains
Brian Parkinson - Subjugation by Data: Virtual Slavery in the 21st Century?
Katie McQuaid - An Ethnographic Analysis of the Transformative Encounter between Refugees’ Narratives and Human Rights Discourses.

Teaching

Nigel is Convenor of the MA in Human Rights and MA in Anthropology (Regions). At postgraduate level he also teaches the course 'Social Anthropology of Reconciliation and Reconstruction', part of the MA in Anthropology of Conflict, Violence and Conciliation. At undergraduate level, Nigel teaches a final year inter-disciplinary course on Human Rights and contributes to the second year course Issues in Contemporary Anthropology.

Nigel's office and feedback hour is 3pm-4pm, Monday

Publications

Books and Edited Collections

(ed.) (2009) Identity, Justice and "Reconciliation" in Contemporary Rwanda, Special Issue of Journal of Genocide Research, Vol. 11, No. 1.
(2004) Accounting for Horror: Post-Genocide Debates in Rwanda (London: Pluto Press).

Articles and Book Chapters

(forthcoming 2010) ‘Judging the "Crime of Crimes": Continuity and Improvisation at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda' in Hinton, A. (ed.) Transitional Justice: Global Mechanisms and Local Realities in the Aftermath of Genocide and Mass Violence. (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press).
(2009) '‘We are not a Truth Commission': Fragmented Narratives and the Historical Record at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda', in Identity, Justice and "Reconciliation" in Contemporary Rwanda, Special Issue of Journal of Genocide Research, Vol. 11, No. 1.
(2009) 'Introduction', in Identity, Justice and "Reconciliation" in Contemporary Rwanda, Special Issue of Journal of Genocide Research, Vol. 11, No. 1.
(2008) ‘"A War Crimes Community": The Legacy of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda Beyond Jurisprudence', New England Journal of International and Comparative Law, Vol. 14, No. 2.
(2008) 'Besieged History?: An Evaluation of Shooting Dogs', Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, Vol. 26, No. 4.
(2008) 'Rwanda' in Stearns, P. N. (ed.) Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World (Oxford: Oxford University Press).
(2006) '"Invaders who have stolen the country": The Hamitic Hypothesis, Race and the Rwandan Genocide', Social Identities, Vol. 12, No. 4.
(2006) 'Debating the Rwandan Genocide' in Kaarsholm, P. (ed.) Violence, Political Culture and Development in Africa (Oxford: James Currey).
(2003) 'The Blind Men and the Elephant: the Challenge of Representing the Rwandan Genocide' in Caplan, P. (ed.) The Ethics of Anthropology (London: Routledge).
(2001) 'Representing Rwanda: Questions and Challenges', Anthropology Matters, London: SOAS.
(2000) 'The Institutional Aspect of the Rwandan Church' in Goyvaerts, D. (ed.) Conflict and Ethnicity in Central Africa (Tokyo: Tokyo University of Foreign Studies).
with S. Van Hoyweghen (2000) 'Power and Identity in Post-Genocide Rwanda' in Doom, R. and J. Gorus (eds) Politics of Identity and Economics of Conflict in the Great Lakes Region (Brussels: VUB University Press).

Media

CinePolitics (PressTV) - review of "My Neighbor, My Enemy" (2009, dir. Anne Aghion), 5th September 2009.