Human Rights University Faculty
Name | Contact | Human Rights Specialty |
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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 |
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 |
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 |
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 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 |
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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 |
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
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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 |
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 |
Carrie Booth Walling Executive Director Human Rights Program Institute for Global Studies |
612-626-1879 cbwalling@umn.edu |
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 wolfe023@umn.edu |
European Union, Soviet Union, the role of media in the constitution of knowledge |