Human Rights University Faculty
| Name | Contact | Human Rights Specialty |
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| Alejandro Baer Associate Professor Stephen Feinstein Chair Director of Center for Holocaust & Genocide Studies Sociology |
612-624-7548 abaer@umn.edu |
Holocaust studies, comparative genocides, social memories & transitional justice, antisemitism studies, globalization |
| Elizabeth Boyle Professor Sociology |
612-624-3343 boyle014@umn.edu |
Women's and children's rights, especially rights to healthcare and education |
| Karen Brown Director Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Global Change |
612-625-1879 kbt@umn.edu |
Gender and public policy in a global context, international women's and children's human rights, girls in international policy |
| Cosette Creamer Assistant Professor Political Science |
612-626-0213 ccreamer@umn.edu |
Inter-American Court of Human Rights, UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies, state reporting on human rights |
| Mary Curtin Diplomat in Residence Humphrey School of Public Affairs |
612-624-1065 mtcurtin@umn.edu |
Human rights and democracy policy, foreign policy, diplomacy |
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Tanisha Fazal
Associate Professor Political Science |
612-624-4144
fazal007@umn.edu |
International security, armed conflict, laws of war, sovereignty, military medicine
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| Ana Forcinito Professor Spanish and Portugese Studies |
612-625-1014 aforcini@umn.edu |
Memory studies, human rights and testimonial writing |
| Barbara Frey Director of the Human Rights Program Institute for Global Studies |
612-626-1879 freyx001@umn.edu |
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 frie0013@umn.edu |
Domestic violence, gender inequality, Latin America, economics and health as aspects of human development |
| V.V. Ganeshananthan Associate Professor English |
612-626-7123 vganesha@umn.edu |
Sri Lanka and its diasporas, human rights in contemporary fiction and journalism |
| Jennifer M Green Associate Professor of Law Law School |
612-625-7247 jmgreen@umn.edu |
International human rights law, international legal systems, domestic human rights litigation |
| Catherine Guisan Visiting Assistant Professor Political Science |
612-624-4144 guis0001@umn.edu |
Transnational ethics, citizens' participation in international relations |
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Serra Hakyemez
Assistant Professor Department of Anthropology |
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 hilbink@umn.edu |
Comparative judicial politics, comparative constitutionalism, Latine American and Iberian politics, and democratization |
| Steve Meili Clinical Professor Law School |
612-626-3972 smeili@umn.edu |
Human rights law, immigration law, civil procedure and legal practice |
| Steven Miles Mass Family Endowed Chair in Bioethics Medical School |
612-624-9440 miles001@umn.edu |
Biomedical ethics, accountability of professionals for crimes against humanity, prisoners and detained refugees |
| Fionnuala Ní Aoláin Robina Chair in Law, Public Policy, and Society Law School University of Ulster |
612-624-2318 niaol002@umn.edu |
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 |
| Leigh Payne Human Rights Program Senior Research Fellow Institute for Global Studies University of Oxford |
612-625-6103 lpayne@umn.edu |
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 laramosg@umn.edu |
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 cnr@umn.edu |
Formation of the International Bill of Human Rights, legal history, legal and social history |
| Cheryl Robertson Associate Professor School of Nursing |
612-625-7091 rober007@umn.edu |
Refugee health, war trauma and torture, global public health, eco-health strategies in Central/Eastern Africa |
| Joachim Savelsberg Professor Sociology |
612-624-0273 savel001@umn.edu |
Collective representations and memory of mass violence and atrocities, human rights crimes and responses |
| Kathryn Sikkink Regents Professor Emerita Political Science |
sikkink@umn.edu | International human rights norms and institutions, transnational advocacy networks, impact of human rights law and policies, transitional justice |
| David Weissbrodt Regents Professor Fredrickson and Byron Professor of Law Law School |
612-625-5027 weiss001@umn.edu |
Human rights law, UN human rights mechanisms, business and human rights, immigration law |