July 2022

Rune Steenberg is an anthropologist researching the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region and Uyghurs. He has conducted extensive fieldwork in Xinjiang, Central Asia, China, and Indonesia and has published widely on topics ranging from kinship to cross-border trade, narratives, and mass incarceration.

Steenberg received his Ph.D. from Freie Universität Berlin in 2014 and is currently a researcher at Palacky University Olomouc. Since 2018, Steenberg has also worked as a Uyghur interpreter for asylum seekers, activists, journalists, and human rights organizations and has participated in several documentary films on the tragedies in Xinjiang.