Human Rights University Faculty

Name	Contact	Human Rights Specialty
Hassan Abdel Salam Assistant Professor Department of Sociology Faculty Member Institute for Global Studies	612-624-8040 asalamha@umn.edu	Cultural change and social influence in the realm of human rights, Islamic law and human rights
Cawo Abdi Associate Professor Department of Sociology Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Global Change	612-624-3714 cabdi@umn.edu	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 allen650@umn.edu	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 assaad@umn.edu	International economic development, inequality of opportunity in education, international migration
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
Linus Chan Associate Professor of Clinical Law Law School	612-301-1156 rlchan@umn.edu	Immigration, detainee rights, intersection of criminal and immigration law
Anna Clark Professor Department of History	612-624-8015 clark106@umn.edu	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 craddock@umn.edu	Health rights, association between global inequality and vaccine access
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
Joan DeJaeghere Assistant Professor Department of Organizational Leadership, Policy and Development	612-626-8258 deja0003@umn.edu	International development policy, inequality and education, gender and education, gender, caste, class and ethnic inequalities
Jack DeWaard Associate Professor Department of Sociology	612-624-9522 jdewaard@umn.edu	Human migration, migration systems and networks, climate and environmental migration and displacement, inequality and incorporation
Christina Ewig Professor Humphrey School of Public Affairs Director of Center on Women, Gender and Public Policy	612-625-1884 cewig@umn.edu	Gender, health care policy, international development, Latin American social policy
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 Emeritus 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
Michael Goldman	612-624-0051 mgoldman@umn.edu
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
Bonnie Keeler Assistant Professor Humphrey School of Public Affairs Co-Director of the Center for Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy	612-625-8905 keel0041@umn.edu	Water policy, intersection of sustainability science and environmental economics, environment equity
Ron Krebs Professor Political Science	612-624-4356 rkrebs@umn.edu	Counterterrorism, international security, the sociology of war and military service, language and politics
Sonja Kuftinec Professor Theatre Arts	kufti001@umn.edu	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 lavine@umn.edu	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 dlevison@umn.edu	International development, child labor and education, human rights of children
Patrick McNamara Associate Professor Department of History	612-624-6531 pjm@umn.edu	History and memory, drug violence in the Americas
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
Dipali Mukhopadhyay Associate Professor Humphrey School of Public Affairs	dipali@umn.edu	Political violence and conflict, state building, governance during and after war
Samuel Myers Professor Humphrey School of Public Affairs	612-625-9821 myers006@umn.edu	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 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
Carrie Oelberger Assistant Professor Humphrey School of Public Affairs	612-625-5947 coelberg@umn.edu	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 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
Yalile Suriel Assistant Professor History	ysuriel@umn.edu	Universities and power, the carceral state, higher education, African American, Latinx, 20th century United States
Frances Vavrus Professor Associate Chair Department of Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development	612-624-2800 ysuriel@umn.edu	Comparative and international education, post/colonial history of education in Africa, comparative case studies
Janet Walsh Director Humphrey International Fellows Program Humphrey School of Public Affairs	612-626-0728 walsh912@umn.edu	Gender equality, women's rights domestic and sexual violence
Thomas Wolfe Associate Professor Department of History	612-624-1886 wolfe023@umn.edu	European Union, Soviet Union, the role of media in the constitution of knowledge