Bartholomew Dean

Director of Public Anthropology Programs, KU Institute for Policy & Social Research, Bartholomew Dean, is a Professor of Anthropology at the University of Kansas. Dean is a research associate of KU's Laboratory of Biological Anthropology, a research affiliate at the Universidad Nacional de San Martín (Tarapoto, Peru) & a Contributing Editor for Lowland South America, Library of Congress. Dean is the author of The State & the Awajún: Frontier Expansion in the Upper Amazon, 1541-1990; Urarina Society, Cosmology & History in Peruvian Amazonia and co-editor of At the Risk of Being Heard: Identity, Indigenous Rights & Postcolonial States. He has just completed the book The End of the Future Trauma, Memory and Reconciliation in Peruvian Amazonia. The End of the Future broadens the theoretical framework for understanding memories' role in reconciliation following a violent conflict. It explores the complicated and confusing linkages between memory and trauma for individuals caught up in civil war and post-conflict reconciliation in the Peruvian Amazon's Huallaga Valley—an epicenter for leftist rebels and a booming shadow economy based on the extraction and circulation of cocaine. Dean's research interest includes the ethnology of Amazonia and the anthropology of global health, human rights, politics, social theory, and ethics. In 2018 Dean was awarded the Orden Mons. José Luis Astigarraga Lizarralde, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Alto Amazonas, Yurimaguas, Peru.