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Chair: Chandra Lekha Sriram (c {dot} sriram [at] uel {dot} ac {dot} uk)

(2008-2010)

Dr. Chandra Lekha Sriram is Professor of Human Rights at the University of East London School of Law, and director of the new Centre on Human Rights in Conflict there (http://www.uel.ac.uk/chrc/index.htm).   She is author of the monographs Peace as governance: Power-sharing, armed groups, and contemporary peace negotiations (2008), Globalising justice for mass atrocities: a revolution in accountability (2005), and Confronting past human rights violations: justice vs. peace in times of transition (2004).

Chair-Elect: Sylvia Maier (sylvia {dot} maier [at] nyu {dot} edu)

Dr. Sylvia Maier joined the faculty at NYU in September 2007 as an Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow in the Center for European and Mediterranean Studies as well as an adjunct instructor at the Center for Global Affairs. Sylvia earned her B.A. in Political Science at the University of Vienna, Austria, and her M.A. (1999) and Ph.D. (2001) in Political Science from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.  Previously, she was an assistant professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta. Sylvia’s research focuses on gender and multiculturalism, honor killings, the legal accommodation of Muslim minority rights in Western Europe, and the role of ICTs in women's empowerment in the Global South. She has written articles and book chapters on a variety of topics including "Honor Killings and the Cultural Defense in Germany," "Shared Values: Democracy and Human Rights in the European Neighborhood Policy" (with Frank Schimmelfennig), "Women and Internet Use in Five South Indian Villages: Obstacles and Opportunities" (with Michael Best), and "Empowering Women Through ICT-Based Business Initiatives: An Overview of Best Practices in E-Commerce/E-Retail Projects" (with Usha Nair).  She has also authored several shorter pieces and reviews.  Sylvia is currently completing a book manuscript on Mainstreaming Muslims: Islam, Culture and the Law in France and Germany.

Vice Chair: Sylvia Maier (sylvia {dot} maier [at] nyu {dot} edu) (2008-2010)

Secretary: Tristan Anne Borer (tabor [at] conncoll {dot} edu) (2008-2010)

Tristan Anne Borer is an associate professor of Government and Connecticut College. Her teaching and research interests converge around the issues of human rights and South Africa. She has published several articles on South African politics, and is the author of two books: Challenging the State: Churches as Political Actors in South Africa 1980-1994, and the edited volume Telling the Truths: Truth Telling and Peacebuilding in Post-Conflict Socieites. Her current research focuses on assessing the efficacy and impact of truth commissions.

Members-At-Large:

Bethany Barratt (bbarratt [at] roosevelt {dot} edu) (2008-2010)

Bethany Barratt comes to the field of human rights from a perspective that was fundamentally shaped by a family history in the diplomatic corps, and several years teaching in prisons and jails. She earned her PhD (Political Science) in 2002 from the University of California at Davis and her BA (Political Science and History) in from Duke University.  Her publications on human rights include her book Human Rights and Foreign Aid: For Love or Money (Routledge, 2008) and several journal articles and chapters in edited volumes.  Her latest book, on politics in popular fiction, is forthcoming from Palgrave McMillan. She has also published on the counterterror/rights nexus (with Christian Erickson) and continues to pursue an active research agenda in that area. She has, too, long had an interest in the relationship between public opinion and foreign policy (and is currently coediting a volume on this connection during the Iraq war), as well as in gender, sexuality, and politics, and British, Canadian, and Australian politics.  She is currently experimenting with transformative teaching techniques that incorporate ideas of social justice and human rights as pedagogy, rather than simply as a 'component' of other political science courses."

James O-Higgins-Norman (james {dot} norman [at] dcu [at] ie) (2009-2011)

Dr. James O'Higgins-Norman FRSA is a lecturer at the School of Education Studies, Dublin City University Ireland where he has led research on issues related to equality and education. In particular his research has focused on the relationship between diversity and wellbeing among minority groups. He is also international associate editor of the Journal of Pastoral Care in Education.

Amy Ross (rossamy [at] uga {dot} edu) (2008-2010)

Amy Ross is Associate Professor of Geography at the University of Georgia, and affiliate faculty for the Institute of Women's Studies and Latin American Studies Program.  Her research focuses on transformations in power and space through the effort to achieve justice and accountability in the wake of mass atrocity.  She has researched truth commissions and international courts In Latin America, Africa and Europe.

Carrie Booth Walling (bwalling [at] umich {dot} edu) (2009-2011)

Carrie Booth Walling is a postdoctoral fellow with the Michigan Society of Fellows (2008-2011) and an assistant professor at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan. Her general research interests are in the areas of international politics, human rights, norms, and international institutions. Her current work focuses on changing beliefs about humanitarian intervention in the United Nations Security Council; how new democracies address past human rights violations; and the construction of human rights narratives by international human rights organizations. Walling received her undergraduate degree from James Madison College, Michigan State University and masters degrees from the University of Wales, Aberystwyth and the University of Minnesota. Her Ph.D. is in Political Science with an interdisciplinary minor in human rights from the University of Minnesota.

2010 Program Chair:

Claire Apodaca (apodaca [at] fiu {dot} edu)

Clair Apodaca, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the Department of International Relations at Florida International University. Dr. Apodaca has published extensively in the areas the international protection of human rights, women’s human rights and refugee studies. Her work has appeared in the Journal of Human Rights, International Studies Quarterly and Human Rights Quarterly among many others. In recognition of her scholarship in the field, human rights scholars and practitioners elected her to the first Executive Committee for Human Rights at the American Political Science Association (APSA) in 2001. Dr. Apodaca previously served as a member-at-large on the Executive Committee for Human Rights Section of the International Studies Association.

H-Human-Rights Lead Editor:

Kurt Mills (k {dot} mills [at] socsci {dot} gla {dot} ac {dot} uk)

Kurt Mills is a Senior Lecturer in International Human Rights at the University of Glasgow. He previously taught at Gettysburg College, James Madison University, Mount Holyoke College, and the American University in Cairo, and served as the Assistant Director of the Five College Program in Peace and World Security Studies at Hampshire College. His major areas of interest are human rights, refugees, humanitarianism, international organizations, and sub-Saharan Africa. Publications include Human Rights in the Emerging Global Order: A New Sovereignty? (Macmillan); “From Rome to Darfur: Norms and Interests in US Policy Toward the International Criminal Court,” Journal of Human Rights;  “Neo-Humanitarianism: The Role of International Humanitarian Norms and Organizations in Contemporary Conflict,” Global Governance. He was the founding Chair of HR-ISA (2006-2008).