Caroline Bennett is a socio-cultural anthropologist, whose work addresses issues of genocide, mass death, and the treatment of human remains. She particularly focuses on the dead in post-conflict state and community building. With a background in forensic anthropology, her works extends to thinking about geopolitical interventions in the fields of conflict, violence, and disaster, including DVI and managing the dead, as well as what we do with dead bodies in science. Her ongoing ethnographic research examines mass graves from the Cambodian genocide. She is currently a Lecturer in Social Anthropology and International Development at the University of Sussex in the UK, and an Associate Research Fellow with Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand.

Caroline has published widely in this field including:

• Bennett, Caroline. 2021. “Haunting and Recovery in Post-Khmer Rouge Cambodia.” In Traumatic Pasts in Asia: History, Psychiatry, and Trauma from the 1930s to the Present, edited by M. Micale and H. Pols, 186-204. New York: Berghahn Books.  https://doi.org/10.1515/9781800731844-010

• Bennett, Caroline. 2020. “Is DNA Always the Answer?” In Forensic Science and Humanitarian Action: Interacting with the Dead and the Living edited by Roberto C. Parra, Sara C. Zapico, Douglas H. Ubelaker, 521-534. New Jersey: Wiley-Blackwell. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119482062.ch33  

• Bennett, Caroline. 2019. “Human Remains from the Khmer Rouge Regime, Cambodia.” In Ethical Approaches to Human Remains: A Global Challenge in Bioarchaeology and Forensic Anthropology, edited  by Kirsty Squires, David Errickson, and Nicholas Márquez-Grant, 567-582. New York: Springer. Doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-32926-6