Nicholas de Genova

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Nicholas de Genova is an assistant professor of anthropology at Columbia University. His research centers primarily on the experience of Mexican-Americans in both Mexico and the United States, especially the transnational urban and conceptual spaces they inhabit. He is also concerned with the methodological problems of anthropology.

De Genova briefly rose to fame for a statement he made during a faculty teach-in in 2003 protesting the Iraq War. De Genova said that he hoped U.S. soldiers would experience "a million Mogadishus", a reference to the bloody defeat U.S. troops suffered in the Battle of Mogadishu in 1993. For this comment De Genova was included among those listed in conservative commentator David Horowitz's book, The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America.

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• Interview in The Chronicle of Higher Education

• Faculty biography from the Columbia Department of Anthropology

• Letter by the U.S. Military Veterans of Columbia University (MilVets), Columbia University's student-veterans group, in response to Professor De Genova's "million Mogadishus" speech