Alessandro Monsutti is a leading Italian expert on the Hazaras, a Persian-speaking people who mainly live in central Afghanistan.

Monsutti is currently professor of anthropology and sociology at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, in Geneva, Switzerland. He was previously a research fellow at the School of Oriental and African Studies and Yale University. He has been a grantee the MacArthur Foundation.

In 2012, he gave the annual Elizabeth Colson Lecture at Oxford University.[1]

He is often cited in the media for his expertise.[2][3][4]

References edit

  1. ^ "Elizabeth Colson Lecture". June 2012.
  2. ^ Wood, Graeme (8 December 2008). "Policing Afghanistan". The New Yorker. Retrieved 24 November 2015.
  3. ^ "The letter from Afghan experts to Barack Obama". The Telegraph. 10 December 2010. Retrieved 24 November 2015.
  4. ^ Ahmed, Khaled (11 March 2014). "Hunting the Hazara". Newsweek. Retrieved 24 November 2015.

External links edit

  • [1] faculty page.
  • [2] research associate page.