Rune Steenberg

Rune Steenberg is an anthropologist researching the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region and the Uyghurs. He has conducted extensive fieldwork in Xinjiang, Central Asia, China, and Indonesia and has published widely on topics ranging from kinship to cross-border trade, narratives, and mass incarceration. Steenberg received his Ph.D. from Freie Universität Berlin in 2014 and has subsequently been a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Dahlem Research School of Freie Universität Berlin and at Columbia University in New York and a Crossroads Asia Fellow at Bonn University. He is currently a researcher at Palacky University Olomouc, Czech Republic.