Human Rights Bookshelf
The Human Rights Program highlights publications from faculty across several colleges and degree programs. Adding their voices to the ongoing debates and theories of human rights, our faculty are among the world’s leaders in writing on issues including transitional justice, representations and memory of mass violence, history of human rights, gender and war, and the defense of rights and rule of law.
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By publication year (most recent first)

Author: Luis Ramos-Garcia, eds.
2024
Peruvian, Colombian, Argentine, Ecuadorian, and American researchers explore the construction of Latin American theater in the U.S. through theatrical investigations, cultural studies, and other artistic expressions. The book is a homage to Patricia Ariza.

Author: V. V. Ganeshananthan
2023
Novel about the life of a young girl from Sri Lanka who struggles to find her place amongst the mounting violence and political turmoil of the country’s civil war.

Author: Steve Miles
2023
Based on a true story, this book explores the work of a UN Human Rights Council attorney and a law school student as they work to prosecute a doctor who tortured people for the Sierra Leone government.

Author: Tricia Olsen
2023
Corporate wrongdoing is ubiquitous today. Yet, we know little about when victims have access to remedy. Seeking Justice explores variation in victims’ access to remedy mechanisms for corporate human rights abuse in Latin America using the newly created Corporations and Human Rights Database.

Author: Carrie Booth Walling
2022
Exploration and teaching of human rights frameworks for navigating justice issues at all levels. Case studies consider how human rights violations have been addressed and how people can equip their knowledge for change-making.

Authors: Deborah Levison, Mary Jo Maynes, and Frances Vavrus, eds.
2021
This textbook showcases innovative approaches to the interdisciplinary field of childhood/youth studies, examining how young people in varying contemporary and historical contexts around the globe live their young lives as subjects, objects, and agents, and recognizing their rights to be heard on matters that concern them, per the United Nations Convention on the rights of the Child.

Author: Joachim J. Savelsberg
2021
The book examines strategies of silencing, denial, and acknowledgment in everyday interaction, public rituals, law, and politics. It illuminates social processes that drive dueling versions of history and counterproductive consequences of denial in an age of human rights hegemony.


Author: Tanisha Fazal
2018
Assesses the unintended consequences of the proliferation of the laws of war for the commencement, conduct, and conclusion of wars over the course of the past 150 years. Based on original data, one of the major findings of the book is that the effects of the proliferation of international humanitarian law differ greatly in interstate versus civil wars.

Study of Francoist violence in contemporary Spain, focusing on exhumations of mass graves from the Civil War and post-war era.

2016

2016

Analysis reflecting the dramatic differences in the framing of mass violence as represented to the public via media.

2014


2012

Author: Helen M. Kinsella
Explores the history and evolution of the laws of war and the principle of distinction. Describes the ongoing difficulties and failures of distinguishing between combatant and civilians and its consequences in armed conflict.

2011

Consequences of violence and discrimination experienced by women in post-conflict states, offering practical solutions to ensure gender centrality in peacemaking and peace enforcement.

2010

2010


2009

2008

Author: Patrick McNamara
2007
Historical exploration of events in Ixtlan, where Zapotec Indians supported the liberal cause and sought to exercise influence over statewide and national politics.