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Alexa Hagerty – Genocide, Forensics, and What Remains

Bones can reveal brutality, beauty, trauma, and love – Alexa Hagerty used them to reveal the truth.

Anthropologist Alexa Hagerty spent years working with forensic teams and victims’ families to investigate crimes against humanity in Latin America. In this beautiful and deeply personal conversation with Luke Naylor-Perrott, she explores what science can tell us about atrocities and resistance, grief and care, ritual and justice.

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