Human Rights Program Affiliated Faculty
| Name | Contact | Human Rights Specialty |
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| Cawo Abdi Associate Professor Department of Sociology Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Global Change |
612-624-3714 [email protected] |
Migration, gender, race, and class, globalization |
| Ryan Allen Associate Professor Humphrey School of Public Affairs Director of Urban and Regional Planning Program Sociology |
612-625-5670 [email protected] |
Race and ethnicity, demography, housing affordability and public housing, immigration and refugee services and policy |
| Ragui Assaad Professor Humphrey School of Public Affairs |
612-625-4856 [email protected] |
International economic development, inequality of opportunity in education, international migration |
| Elizabeth Boyle Professor Sociology |
612-624-3343 [email protected] |
Women's and children's rights, especially rights to healthcare and education |
| Karen Brown Director Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Global Change |
612-624-0255 [email protected] |
Gender and public policy in a global context, international women's and children's human rights, girls in international policy |
| Linus Chan Associate Professor of Clinical Law Law School |
612-301-1156 [email protected] |
Immigration, detainee rights, intersection of criminal and immigration law |
| Anna Clark Professor Department of History |
612-624-8015 [email protected] |
Gender and sexuality, women's rights, class and economic rights |
| Susan Craddock Professor Department of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies Institute for Global Studies |
612-625-5535 [email protected] |
Health rights, association between global inequality and vaccine access |
| Joan DeJaeghere Professor Department of Organizational Leadership, Policy and Development |
612-626-8258 [email protected] |
International development policy, inequality and education, gender and education, gender, caste, class and ethnic inequalities |
| Christina Ewig Professor Humphrey School of Public Affairs Director of Center on Women, Gender and Public Policy |
612-625-1884 [email protected] |
Gender, health care policy, international development, Latin American social policy |
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612-624-4144
[email protected] |
International security, armed conflict, laws of war, sovereignty, military medicine
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| Ana Forcinito Professor Spanish and Portuguese Studies |
612-625-1014 [email protected] |
Memory studies, human rights, and testimonial writing |
| Barbara Frey Director Emeritus of the Human Rights Program Institute for Global Studies |
612-626-1879 [email protected] |
International human rights law and advocacy, firearms and human rights, migration and human rights |
| Greta Friedemann-Sanchez Associate Professor Humphrey School of Public Affairs |
612-625-4747 [email protected] |
Domestic violence, gender inequality, Latin America, economics and health as aspects of human development |
| V.V. Ganeshananthan Associate Professor English |
612-626-7123 [email protected] |
Sri Lanka and its diasporas, human rights in contemporary fiction and journalism |
| Michael Goldman | 612-624-0051 [email protected] |
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| Jennifer M Green Associate Professor of Law Law School |
612-625-7247 [email protected] |
International human rights law, international legal systems, domestic human rights litigation |
| Catherine Guisan Visiting Assistant Professor Political Science |
612-624-4144 [email protected] |
Transnational ethics, citizens' participation in international relations |
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612-625-3400
[email protected] |
Political-legal anthropology, social theory, human rights, political violence, "war on terror," courtroom ethnography, Kurdish freedom movement, Turkey, Middle East
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| Lisa Hilbink Associate Professor Political Science |
612-626-0160 [email protected] |
Comparative judicial politics, comparative constitutionalism, Latine American and Iberian politics, and democratization |
| Bonnie Keeler Assistant Professor Humphrey School of Public Affairs Co-Director of the Center for Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy |
612-625-8905 [email protected] |
Water policy, intersection of sustainability science and environmental economics, environment equity |
| Ron Krebs Professor Political Science |
612-624-4356 [email protected] |
Counterterrorism, international security, the sociology of war and military service, language and politics |
| Sonja Kuftinec Professor Theatre Arts |
[email protected] | Performance and social change, community-based theater, conflict transformation, the work of art to counter individual and historical amnesia |
| Howard Lavine Associate Dean of Social Science Arleen Carlson Professor Political Science Psychology |
612-624-9839 [email protected] |
Intersection of race and political context on public opinion, psychological underpinnings of mass political behavior |
| Deborah Levison Professor Humphrey School of Public Affairs |
612-624-3540 [email protected] |
International development, child labor and education, human rights of children |
| Patrick McNamara Associate Professor Department of History |
612-624-6531 [email protected] |
History and memory, drug violence in the Americas |
| Steve Meili Clinical Professor Law School |
612-626-3972 [email protected] |
Human rights law, immigration law, civil procedure, and legal practice |
| Samuel Myers Professor Humphrey School of Public Affairs |
612-625-9821 [email protected] |
Academic labor markets, income inequality in China, racial disparities, race-neutral remedies |
| Fionnuala Ní Aoláin Robina Chair in Law, Public Policy, and Society Law School University of Ulster |
612-624-2318 [email protected] |
European Court of Human Rights, transitional justice, intersection of human rights and humanitarian norms, feminist legal theory, international human rights law and international criminal law intersection |
| Carrie Oelberger Assistant Professor Humphrey School of Public Affairs |
612-625-5947 [email protected] |
Professionalization, international development, nonprofit and NGO management, organizational theory, study of social movements |
| Leigh Payne Human Rights Program Senior Research Fellow Institute for Global Studies University of Oxford |
612-625-6103 [email protected] |
Transitional justice, social movement theory, Latin American politics, impunity, business and human rights |
| Luis Ramos-Garcia Associate Professor Spanish and Portuguese Studies |
612-625-3039 [email protected] |
Human rights and politics in Latin America and Spain, human rights across the disciplines including theater/art/literature |
| Christopher Roberts Associate Professor Law School |
612-624-2947 [email protected] |
Formation of the International Bill of Human Rights, legal history, legal and social history |
| Cheryl Robertson Associate Professor School of Nursing |
612-626-6450 [email protected] |
Refugee health, war trauma and torture, global public health, eco-health strategies in Central/Eastern Africa |
| Yalile Suriel Assistant Professor History |
[email protected] | Universities and power, the carceral state, higher education, African American, Latinx, 20th century United States |
| Carrie Booth Walling Director Human Rights Program Institute for Global Studies |
612-626-1879 [email protected] |
Human rights advocacy, mass violence and human rights, human rights and the United Nations Security Council, transitional justice, human rights norms, human security |
| Thomas Wolfe Associate Professor Department of History |
612-624-1886 [email protected] |
European Union, Soviet Union, the role of media in the constitution of knowledge |