# Mercedes Doretti
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{{Short description|Argentine anthropologist (born 1959)}}
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'''Mercedes Doretti''' (born 1959) is an Argentine forensic anthropologist based in [New York City](/source/New_York_City).[{{cite web|url=http://eaaf.typepad.com/contact_us/|title=Contact Us|date=|publisher=Eaaf.typepad.com|access-date=2015-04-05}}][{{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](/source/The_New_York_Times)|access-date=2015-04-05}}] She is known for finding evidence of [crimes against humanity](/source/crimes_against_humanity).[[https://www.macfound.org/fellows/820/ Mercedes Doretti], MacFound, Retrieved 25 November 2016] She was awarded a MacArthur "Genius Grant" prize in 2007.
==Life==
Her mother is Magdalena Ruiz Guinazu,[{{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 }}] a radio journalist.[{{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](/source/The_New_York_Times)|access-date=2015-04-05}}]
She helped found the [Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team](/source/Argentine_Forensic_Anthropology_Team).[{{cite web|url=http://eaaf.typepad.com/awards/ |title=Awards |publisher=Eaaf.typepad.com |date= |access-date=2015-04-05}}][[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}}] In 1992, she opened the team's New York office and expanded her work globally.[{{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}}]
She has lectured at [University of California, Berkeley](/source/University_of_California%2C_Berkeley),[{{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 }}] [Harvard University](/source/Harvard_University), [Massachusetts Institute of Technology](/source/Massachusetts_Institute_of_Technology), [Columbia University](/source/Columbia_University), [State University of New York at Purchase](/source/State_University_of_New_York_at_Purchase), [New School for Social Research](/source/New_School_for_Social_Research), [Rutgers University](/source/Rutgers_University), [Amnesty International](/source/Amnesty_International), [The Carter Center](/source/The_Carter_Center), and the [World Archaeological Congress](/source/World_Archaeological_Congress).[[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}}]
In 2016, Doretti was named to the [BBC's](/source/BBC) annual list of [100 Women](/source/100_Women_(BBC)).[{{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}}]
==Awards==
* 2007 [MacArthur Fellows Program](/source/MacArthur_Fellows_Program)
* 2016 Honorary Doctorate from [The New School](/source/The_New_School)[{{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 }}]
==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==
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==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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