Harald Prins
Harald E. L. Prins (born September 7, 1951) is a Dutch anthropologist, ethnohistorian, filmmaker, and human rights activist who studies indigenous peoples in North and South America. He is a University Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at Kansas State University.
He trained at Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands and the New School for Social Research in New York. Prins is known for his work with Wabanaki and Mi’kmaq communities, and for helping the Aroostook Band of Micmacs win federal recognition and a 5,000-acre land base in northern Maine. He has also served as an expert witness in the U.S. Senate and in Canadian courts, and he worked as an international observer in Paraguay’s elections.
Prins has produced films and edited visual anthropology for professional journals. He was president of the Society for Visual Anthropology and has taught at Radboud University, Bowdoin College, Colby College, and the University of Maine. He has received several teaching awards, including Kansas Professor of the Year (2006) and the AAA/Oxford University Press Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching (2010). He has also been a guest professor at Lund University in Sweden and worked with the Smithsonian Institution.
Since 2013, Prins has been the lead expert witness on river sovereignty and tribal reservation boundaries for the Penobscot Indian Nation in a U.S. federal court case. He is the son of Dutch maritime anthropologist A. H. J. Prins and is married to American author and journalist Bunny McBride.
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