Harald Prins

Harald E. L. Prins
Harald Prins in 2007
BornSeptember 7, 1951
Alphen aan den Rijn, Netherlands
NationalityDutch
Alma materRadboud University, Netherlands; New School for Social Research, New York
Known forNative American tribal status recognition, hunting and fishing rights, land claims; visual anthropology; cultural anthropology textbook
AwardsKansas Professor of the year ’06, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching; Presidential Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching ’99; John Culkin Award for Outstanding Praxis in the Field of Media Ecology ‘04, Oxford University Press Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching of Anthropology, American Anthropological Association ’10.
Scientific career
FieldsCultural Anthropology, Ethnohistory, Visual Anthropology
InstitutionsKansas State University
Doctoral advisorsEric R. Wolf, Michael J. Harner, Anton Blok

Harald E. L. Prins (born 1951) is a Dutch anthropologist, ethnohistorian, filmmaker, and human rights activist specialized in North and South America's indigenous peoples and cultures.