Ram Natarajan

Ram Natarajan received his PhD in Anthropology from New York University in 2014. His research and teaching focus on violence, memory, human rights, and law. His current project, "The Power of Memory," is an ethnographic inquiry into the social worlds of officers accused of committing suppressive violence in service of Argentina’s 1976-1983 military government. This project also investigates how Argentina’s ongoing use of trials to hold the military accountable for the country’s human rights violations has produced new forms of interpersonal violence and conciliations with the law. The Andrew Mellon Foundation/Social Sciences Research Council, the Fulbright-Hays Program, the National Science Foundation, and the Wenner-Gren Foundation have supported his research.