Human Rights University Faculty

Name	Contact	Human Rights Specialty
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	612-624-0255 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	612-624-4144 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
Tanisha Fazal Associate Professor Political Science	612-624-4144 fazal007@umn.edu	International security, armed conflict, laws of war, sovereignty, military medicine
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
Serra Hakyemez Assistant Professor Department of Anthropology	612-625-3400 hakyemez@umn.edu	Political-legal anthropology, social theory, human rights, political violence, "war on terror," courtroom ethnography, Kurdish freedom movement, Turkey, Middle East
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	612-626-6450 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