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Mercedes Doretti, Former Hunter MA Student, is Named One of BBC's '100 Most Influential Women of 2016'

Mercedes "Mimi" Doretti, a former Hunter MA student in the Anthropology Department, has been named one of the BBC's '100 most influential women for 2016'  http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04j54ry  According to the website of the MacArthur Foundation (which awarded Doretti a MacArthur "Genius Grant" Prize in 2007), she is is a forensic anthropologist who "unearths evidence of crimes against humanity, restoring voices to long-silenced victims and presenting critical findings to tribunals, human rights organizations, and special commissions around the globe. As a university student, Doretti co-founded the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team (EAAF in Spanish) in 1984 to investigate the cases of men, women, and children who disappeared under the military dictatorship that ruled Argentina from 1976 to 1983.  In order to underscore the value of forensic anthropology in the promotion of human rights, she has produced field manuals and documentary videos about her work and led the development and training of other locally based teams around the world. From El Salvador to East Timor, Bosnia to Iraqi Kurdistan, Doretti makes witnesses of bones and seeks justice on behalf of populations whose immense losses have been omitted from the historical record."

Mercedes Doretti received a Licenciatura (1987) from the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, and completed courses in biological anthropology at Hunter College, City University of New York. A founding member of the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team, she continues to serve as an EAAF researcher and as the coordinator of the organization’s New York City office.

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