Antoon De Baets - Biography#

Antoon De Baets is emeritus professor of History, Ethics and Human Rights https://www.rug.nl/staff/a.h.m.de.baets at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. He is the author of more than 200 publications, particularly on the censorship of history, the ethics of historians, and the history of human rights, including books such as Responsible History (New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2009) and Crimes against History (London: Routledge, 2019). His latest major publications are “The View of the Past in International Humanitarian Law (1860–2020),” International Review of the Red Cross, 104, nos. 920–921 (November 2022), 1586–1620, and “The Posthumous Dignity of Dead Persons,” in Roberto C. Parra and Douglas H. Ubelaker, eds., Anthropology of Violent Death: Theoretical Foundations for Forensic Humanitarian Action (Hoboken NJ: Wiley, 2023), 15–37.

Since 1995, he has coordinated the Network of Concerned Historians https://www.concernedhistorians.org/about. He is the President of the International Commission for the History and Theory of Historiography (2022 - 2026) https://www.ichth.net/board and the Chair of the Scientific Advisory Committee of “The Netherlands and Afghanistan 2001 - 2021,” a government-commissioned but independent historical-scientific analysis of Dutch involvement in Afghanistan in 9 volumes (2023 - 2027) https://nederlandafghanistan.org/en/scientific-advisory-committee. He is the editor of the forthcoming Palgrave Handbook of Attacks on History (2027) https://www.concernedhistorians.org/handbook.

His ORCID is 0000-0002-5734-8193. A complete and recent curriculum vitae (32 pages). The 1 February 2024 version of his cv, including a full publications list on pages 18–32, is uploaded on this website.