• Function: Professor
• Company: KITLV

Ward Berenschot is a professor of comparative political anthropology at the University of Amsterdam and a senior researcher at KITLV. Studying politics and citizenship in India and Indonesia, he is the author of Riot Politics (Colombia UP 2011) and co-author of Democracy for Sale (Cornell UP 2019, with Edward Aspinall). He recently directed the research project ‘Palm Oil Conflicts and Access to Justice in Indonesia’ which led to the Watchdoc documentary ‘Colonial Debris’.