Mercedes Doretti

{{Short description|Argentine anthropologist (born 1959)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox scientist | name = Mercedes Doretti | native_name = | image = | imagesize = | caption = | birth_date = {{birth year and age|1959}} | birth_place = Buenos Aires, Argentina | death_date =  | death_place = | death_cause = | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates =  | other_names = | residence = | fields = forensic anthropologist | workplaces = | patrons = | alma_mater = National University of Buenos Aires | thesis_title =  | thesis_url =  | thesis_year =  | doctoral_advisor = | academic_advisors = | doctoral_students = | notable_students = | known_for = finding evidence of crimes against humanity | influences = | influenced = | awards = MacArthur Fellows Program | spouse =  | partner =  | website =  }} '''Mercedes Doretti''' (born 1959) is an Argentine forensic anthropologist based in New York City.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://eaaf.typepad.com/contact_us/|title=Contact Us|date=|publisher=Eaaf.typepad.com|access-date=2015-04-05}}</ref><ref>{{cite news| url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D02E1D61531F936A1575AC0A9619C8B63| title= MacArthur Foundation Gives Out 'Genius Awards'| author= Felicia R. lee| date= September 25, 2007| newspaper=The New York Times|access-date=2015-04-05}}</ref> She is known for finding evidence of crimes against humanity.<ref name=mf>[https://www.macfound.org/fellows/820/ Mercedes Doretti], MacFound, Retrieved 25 November 2016</ref> She was awarded a MacArthur "Genius Grant" prize in 2007.

==Life== Her mother is Magdalena Ruiz Guinazu,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.iwmf.org/article.aspx?id=637&c=lawinner |title=Magdalena Ruiz Guinazu > IWMF |website=www.iwmf.org |access-date=2 February 2022 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20110809111033/http://www.iwmf.org/article.aspx?id=637&c=lawinner |archive-date=9 August 2011 }}</ref> a radio journalist.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/12/27/magazine/identifying-argentina-s-disappeared.html?pagewanted=all| title=IDENTIFYING ARGENTINA'S DISAPPEARED| author= Stephen G. Michaud| date= December 27, 1987| newspaper=The New York Times|access-date=2015-04-05}}</ref>

She helped found the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://eaaf.typepad.com/awards/ |title=Awards |publisher=Eaaf.typepad.com |date= |access-date=2015-04-05}}</ref><ref>[http://www.reebok.com/Static/global/initiatives/rights/awards/recipients/doretti_fondebrider.html] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110724165243/http://www.reebok.com/Static/global/initiatives/rights/awards/recipients/doretti_fondebrider.html|date=July 24, 2011}}</ref> In 1992, she opened the team's New York office and expanded her work globally.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/qa-forensic-anthropologist-mercedes-doretti/|title=Forensic Anthropologist Uses DNA to Solve Real-Life Murder Mysteries in Latin America|last=Borrell|first=Brendan|newspaper=Scientific American|access-date=2016-12-08}}</ref>

She has lectured at University of California, Berkeley,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.clas.berkeley.edu/Events/fall2000/11-17-00-snow/index.html |access-date=December 22, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100722212007/http://clas.berkeley.edu/Events/fall2000/11-17-00-snow/index.html |archive-date=July 22, 2010 |title=Center for Latin American Studies, UC Berkeley }}</ref> Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Columbia University, State University of New York at Purchase, New School for Social Research, Rutgers University, Amnesty International, The Carter Center, and the World Archaeological Congress.<ref>[http://www.archaeologychannel.org/content/audio/dorettiint.html] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090225100851/http://www.archaeologychannel.org/content/audio/dorettiint.html|date=February 25, 2009}}</ref>

In 2016, Doretti was named to the BBC's annual list of 100 Women.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-38012048|title=BBC 100 Women 2016: Who is on the list?|date=2016-11-21|newspaper=BBC News|language=en-GB|access-date=2016-12-08}}</ref>

==Awards== * 2007 MacArthur Fellows Program * 2016 Honorary Doctorate from The New School<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.newschool.edu/pressroom/pressreleases/2016/commencement2016.htm |title=LAVERNE COX, DIANE VON FURSTENBERG, DERAY MCKESSON NAMED HONORARY DEGREE RECIPIENTS BY THE NEW SCHOOL |date=2016-03-31 }}</ref>

==Works== * {{cite book| chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qBOmzayNriwC&q=Mercedes+Doretti&pg=PT57 |author=Mercedes Doretti |author2=Jennifer Burrell | chapter=Gray Spaces and Endless Negotiations| title=Anthropology put to work|editor=Les W. Field |editor2=Richard Gabriel Fox| publisher=Berg Publishers| year= 2007| isbn=978-1-84520-601-7 }} * {{cite book| chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uttjgF2D4GYC&q=Mercedes+Doretti&pg=PT68| chapter=Commingled Remains and Human Rights Investigations | title=Recovery, Analysis, and Identification of Commingled Human Remains|editor=Bradley J. Adams |editor2=John E. Byrd| publisher=Springer| year= 2008| isbn= 978-1-58829-769-3 }}

===Film=== * ''Following Antigone: Forensic Anthropology and Human Rights Investigations'' (EAAF Witness production 2002). Co-producer

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== *[http://eaaf.typepad.com/ "Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team "] *[https://web.archive.org/web/20100201085409/http://speakingoffaith.publicradio.org/programs/2009/laying-the-dead/ "laying the dead to rest", ''Speaking of Faith'', March 19, 2009] *[https://web.archive.org/web/20081013001557/http://www.ictj.org/en/news/features/1314.html "Unearthing the Truth: an Interview with Mercedes Doretti", ''International Center for Transitional Justice'', September 1, 2007] *[https://web.archive.org/web/20091106070725/http://www.iptv.org/series.cfm/19210/la_plaza_maria_hinojosa_oneone/ep:212 "Mercedes Doretti", ''La Plaza'']

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