Human Rights University Faculty

Name Contact Human Rights Specialty
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
Alejandro Baer
Associate Professor
Stephen Feinstein Chair
Director of Center for Holocaust & Genocide Studies
Sociology
612-624-7548
[email protected]
Holocaust studies, comparative genocides, social memories & transitional justice, antisemitism studies, globalization
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
Assistant 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
Tanisha Fazal
Associate Professor
Political Science 
612-624-4144
[email protected]
International security, armed conflict, laws of war, sovereignty, military medicine
Ana Forcinito
Professor
Spanish and Portugese 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]
 
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
Serra Hakyemez
Assistant Professor
Department of Anthropology
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
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
Steven Miles
Mass Family Endowed Chair in Bioethics
Medical School
612-624-9440
[email protected]
Biomedical ethics, accountability of professionals for crimes against humanity, prisoners and detained refugees
Dipali Mukhopadhyay
Associate Professor
Humphrey School of Public Affairs 
[email protected] Political violence and conflict, state building, governance during and after war
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
Joachim Savelsberg
Professor
Sociology
612-624-0273
[email protected]
Collective representations and memory of mass violence and atrocities, human rights crimes and responses
Kathryn Sikkink
Regents Professor Emerita
Political Science
[email protected] International human rights norms and institutions, transnational advocacy networks, impact of human rights law and policies, transitional justice
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