Greg Beckett

Greg Beckett is a cultural anthropologist who studies crisis, disaster, and trauma from the standpoint of moral experience. His work focuses on how people make sense of exceptional events and on the ethical and political relationships that emerge in and around responses to crisis, especially humanitarian intervention. His geographic area of expertise is the Caribbean, specifically Haiti, where he has worked for about fifteen years. His is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Western University, in London, Ontario (Canada).