Alex Hinton
@AlexLHinton
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mass violence, extremism, TJ, hum rights, intl law, tech, anthro, US/Asia/Cambodia, UNESCO Chair in Genocide, Director @Rutgers_CGHR / @ https://t.co/mAv4hu3k9F
New York metro area
Joined August 2011
🚨NEW BOOK ALERT! 🚨.What’s it like to #interview, research, and #write about #perpetrators of mass violence? And how do researchers process the difficult #emotions involved? My @stanfordpress book, authored with #TonyRobben, takes up these fraught issues.
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RT @EASAinfo: 📣 Call for Mentees!.EASA’s free, remote Academic Mentorship Programme returns Sept 2025–May 2026. For late-PhDs, postdocs & e….
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RT @culanth: 📢 New 'Theorizing the Contemporary' Out Now 📢. "Unbuilding" features contributions that draw on ethnographic engagements to de….
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Confronting the entangled legacies of failed infrastructures, toxic materials, and compromised futures, this series opens up the concept of unbui...
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RT @EASAinfo: 📣 Calling all early career anthropologists!!.🔎 @culanth is looking for more contributing editors to join the SCA!.Check out t….
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Are you looking for a writing endeavor beyond your dissertation, final essays, and grant applications? Looking for a collective of inspired anthr...
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RT @briankturner101: 1/ When Cambodia went from pre-modern kingdom to nation state with clearly defined borders, it had disputed land claim….
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RT @ConversationUS: Why do MAGA faithful support Trump if his ‘big beautiful bill’ will likely hurt many of them?
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Trump voters still reliably back the president, believing that most of the criticism of him is fake news.
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RT @AmAnthroJournal: We're more than halfway through 2025, so we're revisiting some of the most-read AA articles so far this year! Next is….
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RT @ConversationUS: Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” slashes Medicaid and boosts tax breaks for the wealthy, yet many of his supporters bac….
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🚨New Pub Alert!.Why do the @MAGA faithful support #Trump when his policies – like cuts to #Medicaid -- hurt them? Many think he’s “#crushingit” and counterarguments are #FakeNews. Bottom line: MAGA sinks or swims with Trump. @conversationUS .
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Trump voters still reliably back the president, believing that most of the criticism of him is fake news.
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Repost, following the SC decision, on why #realDonaldTrump is demolishing the US #Education Dept.
**New Pub** on the #MAGA wrecking ball .#Trump orders a plan to close Education Department – an anthropologist who studies MAGA explains 4 reasons why Trump and his supporters want to eliminate it via @ConversationUS.
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RT @RutgersSASN: With nearly half of Americans viewing those on the opposite side of the political spectrum as “downright evil,” it is hard….
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Alex Hinton warns that rising extremism and weakened institutions could lay the groundwork for major political unrest.
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RT @ProSyn: By pardoning January 6 insurrectionists en masse, @realDonaldTrump has sent a dangerous message that partisan violence is accep….
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Alex Hinton warns that rising extremism and weakened institutions could lay the groundwork for major political unrest.
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RT @ProSyn: With nearly half of Americans viewing those on the opposite side of the political spectrum as “downright evil,” it is hardly su….
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Alex Hinton warns that rising extremism and weakened institutions could lay the groundwork for major political unrest.
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**Pub Alert** -- My @ProSyn piece on the rising threat of #PoliticalViolence in the U.S. – a #tinderbox that #Trump has greatly inflamed as the “#polarizer-in-chief.” The U.S. is in for a rough ride through the 2028 election.
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Alex Hinton warns that rising extremism and weakened institutions could lay the groundwork for major political unrest.
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RT @HeikeKluever: 📣 Call for Applications 📣. 3-year Postdoc position in Berlin 🚀. Join our Comparative Political Behavior Group at @Humbold….
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RT @skvdst: Invitational Fellowships for Research in Japan(Short-term).to provide opportunities for overseas researchers with excellent rec….
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Official Website of Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)
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RT @EASAinfo: "Violent extremists like the Minnesota shooter are not lone wolves".New publication from @AlexLHinton, Distinguished Professo….
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RT @RutgersSASN: Violent extremists like the Minnesota shooter are not lone wolves, says @AlexLHinton in his latest for @ConversationUS .ht….
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The lone wolf metaphor used to describe mass shooters misinforms views of extremists – and hampers law enforcement efforts to deter the violence.
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New @ConversationUS pub out on the #Minnesota shooter — sadly this point needs to be made again and again …
theconversation.com
The lone wolf metaphor used to describe mass shooters misinforms views of extremists – and hampers law enforcement efforts to deter the violence.
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RT @jherrerx: We’re seeing the largest de-legalization campaign in U.S. history. I spoke to immigrants affected. They were vetted. They gav….
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After a Supreme Court decision, hundreds of thousands of immigrants who followed the law are among the easiest to deport.
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