Begoña Aretxaga
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Died
Austin, Texas, US
TitleAssociate Professor of Anthropology
Begoña Aretxaga | |
|---|---|
| Born | |
| Died | Austin, Texas, US |
| Title | Associate Professor of Anthropology |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Princeton University |
| Thesis | (1992) |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Anthropology |
| Sub-discipline | Political Anthropology |
| Main interests | nationalism, gender and sexuality, political violence |
| Notable works | Maddening states Shattering Silence: Women, nationalism, and subjectivity in Northern Ireland |
Begoña Aretxaga (San Sebastián, Spain, February 24, 1960 - Austin Texas, December 28, 2002) was a Basque anthropologist known for her work on Northern Ireland and Basque country.[1]
She graduated at Philosophy and Phychology from the University of the Basque Country and got her PhD in anthropology on Irish Nationalism with a gender perspective at Princeton University. She lectured in Princeton, Harvard University, and near the end of her life she taught at the University of Texas at Austin.[2] She received the MacArthur Award in recognition of her work in 2001 one year before she died of lung cancer at 42.[3][4]
