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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 various books and journal articles on international relations, international law, human rights and conflict prevention and peacebuilding. She is author of the monographs Globalising justice for mass atrocities: a revolution in accountability (2005), and Confronting past human rights violations: justice vs. peace in times of transition (2004).

Past Chair: Kurt Mills (k {dot} mills [at] socsci {dot} gla {dot} ac {dot} uk) (2008-2009)

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.

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:

Claire Apodaca (apodaca [at] fiu {dot} edu) (2007-2009)

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. Presently, Dr. Apodaca serves on the Executive Committee for Human Rights Section of the International Studies Association.

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."

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

Daniel Whelan (whelan [at] hendrix {dot} edu) (2007-2009)

Daniel J. Whelan is an Assistant Professor of Politics and International Relations at Hendrix College (AR). He holds an MA in International Affairs from American University and a Ph.D. in International Studies from the University of Denver. He is most recently co-author (with Jack Donnelly) of "The West, Economic and Social Rights, and the Global Human Rights Regime: Setting the Record Straight" (Human Rights Quarterly, Nov. 2007). He also served as Senior Editor of the online journal Human Rights & Human Welfare from 2001 - 2007. The Human Rights Section of the American Political Science Association awarded Dr. Whelan its "Best Dissertation" citation in 2007.

2008 Program Chair:

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

2009 Elections Chair:

Eric Leonard (eleonard [at] su {dot} edu)

Eric Leonard is Henkel Family Chair in International Affairs and Director of General Education at Shenandoah University.