Professor
Ph.D Cambridge University, 1987
Ronald Niezen, is Professor of Anthropology and Associate Member of the Faculty of Law. He held the Katharine A. Pearson Chair in Civil Society and Public Policy in the faculties of Law and of Arts between 2013 and 2020, and is a former Chair of the Department of Anthropology. He also held the Canada Research Chair in the Anthropology of Law between 2012 and 2019. He was selected as the William Lyon Mackenzie King Chair for Canadian Studies, Harvard University, for 2018-2019.
Professor Niezen researches and teaches in the areas of political and legal anthropology, indigenous peoples and human rights. He is an anthropologist with wide ranging research experience: with the Songhay of Mali, the Cree communities of Quebec, Ontario and Manitoba, and the Sami of northern Europe.
Professor Niezen has taught legal anthropology and anthropological theory at the Faculty of Law and the Anthropology Department of 平特五不中. He has taught for nine years at Harvard University and held visiting positions at the Department of History at the University of Winnipeg and the Institute for Human Rights at 脜bo Akademi University, Finland. Professor Niezen earned his B.A. in Anthropology at the University of British Columbia. He completed his M.Phil. and Ph.D. at the University of Cambridge, England.
His research has been funded notably by the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Canadian Research Chair programme and the Canadian Foundation for Innovation, Infrastructure Fund.
Areas of interest
Political/legal anthropology; Information technologies and justice claims; The social study of new media; Indigenous peoples and human rights; History of anthropology/social theory, Social change in Africa
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Books
#HumanRights: The Technologies and Politics of Justice Claims in Practice (Stanford University Press, July 2020)
Truth and Indignation: Canada鈥檚 Truth and Reconciliation Commission on Indian Residential Schools (University of Toronto Press, October 2013)
Public Justice and the Anthropology of Law (Cambridge University Press, 2010)
The Rediscovered Self: Indigenous Identity and Cultural Justice (平特五不中-Queen鈥檚 University Press, 2009)
A World Beyond Difference: Cultural Identity in the Age of Globalization (Blackwell, 2004)
The Origins of Indigenism: Human Rights and the Politics of Difference (University of California Press, 2003)
Articles and Chapters
2014. 鈥淕abriel Tarde鈥檚 Public.鈥澛燫evue d'Histoire des Sciences Humaines. 27 (2): 41-59.
2014. 鈥淭he Law鈥檚 Legal Anthropology鈥� in聽Human Rights at the Crossroads, edited by Mark Goodale. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
2013. 鈥淚nternet Suicide: Communities of Affirmation and the Lethality of Communication.鈥澛燭ranscultural Psychiatry.聽50(2):303-22
2011 鈥淗uman Rights and Indigenous Religions,鈥� in聽Religion and Human Rights, edited by John Witte and M. Christian Green. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press
2009 The聽Aufkl盲rung鈥檚聽Human Discipline: Comparative Anthropology According to Kant, Herder and W. von Humboldt.聽聽Intellectual History Review.
2009 鈥淪elf-Destruction as a Way of Belonging: Understanding Cluster Suicides among Aboriginal Youth in Canada.鈥澛� In聽Healing Traditions: The Mental Health of Aboriginal Peoples,聽edited by Lawrence Kirmayer and Gail Valaskakis.聽 Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press.
2008 鈥淭he Global Indigenous Movement.鈥� In聽Handbook of North American Indians: Indians in Contemporary Society,聽 edited by Garrick Bailey.Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution.
2008聽 鈥淧ostcolonialism and the Utopian Imagination.鈥� In聽Postcolonial Theory and the Arab-Israeli Conflict,聽edited by Philip Salzman and Donna Robinson.聽 New York: Routledge.
2008 鈥淎boriginal and Indigenous Peoples, Treatment of.鈥澛犅� In聽Encyclopedia of Law and Society, edited by David S. Clark.聽 Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
2008 鈥淢ali,鈥� in聽The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World, edited by John Esposito.聽 Second edition (revised). Oxford:聽 Oxford University Press.