PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUNDS OF GUEST FACULTY AND CONSULTANTS (alphabetically ordered)

ANDREOPOULOS, George – Associate Professor of Government, The John Jay College of Criminal Justice & Member of the Doctoral Program in Political Science at The Graduate Center of The City University of New York. Director, Center for International Human Rights at John Jay College. Ph.D. and LL.B., Cambridge University.
Sample publications: Concepts and Strategies in Internation al Human Rights (ed., 2003); Human Rights Education for the Twenty-First Century (ed., w/ Richard P. Claude, 1997); Laws of War: Constraints on Warfare in the Western World (ed., w/ Sir Michael Howard and Mark Shulman, 1995); Genocide: Conceptual and Historical Dimensions (ed., 1994).

ASAD, Talal – Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, The Graduate Center of The City University of New York; D.Phil. Oxford University.
Interests: the phenomenon of religion (and secularism) as an integral part of modernity, and especially in the religious revival in the Middle East; religious and secular notions of pain and cruelty, in connection with the modern discourse of human rights.
Sample publications: Formations of the Secular (2003); Genealogies of Religion (1993).

BAUER, Joanne – Director of Studies, Carnegie Council of Ethics and International Affairs. Director of the Council’s Human Rights Initiative.
Sample publications: The East Asian Challenge for Human Rights (ed., w/ Daniel A. Bell, 1999).

BEITZ, Charles – Professor of Politics and Chair, Program in Political Philosophy, Princeton University.
Interests: international political theory; democratic theory; theory of human rights; legal theory.
Sample publications: “Human Rights as a Common Concern” (2001); Political Theory and International Relations (rev. ed. 1999; 1st ed., 1979); Political Equality: An Essay in Democratic Theory (1986).
Recipient of fellowships from the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Guggenheim, Rockefeller, and MacArthur Foundations, American Council of Learned Societies, American Council on Education.
Sample publications: Funding Virtue: Civil Society Aid and Democracy Promotion (ed. w/ Marina S. Ottaway, 2000); Aiding Democracy Abroad: The Learning Curve (1999); Assessing Democratic Assistance: The Case of Romania (1996). Hundreds of columns and articles on democratization, human rights, and American foreign policy.

CRAHAN, Margaret – Dorothy Epstein Professor of History, Hunter College & Doctoral Faculty in History of The Graduate Center, CUNY. Ph.D. Columbia University.
Sample publications: “Catholicism and Human Rights in Latin America” (1996); “Salvadoran Truth Commissions in Comparative Perspective” (1996); “Human Rights and Basic Needs in the Americas” (1994); “Religion and Democracy in Central America” (1992). Executive Committee of the Board of Directors, Inter-American Institute of Human Rights (1995-1997).

DONNELLY, Jack – Andrew Mellon Professor, Graduate School of International Studies, University of Denver.
Sample publications: Universal Human Rights in Theory and Practice (rev. ed., 2002; 1st ed. 1989); Realism and International Relations (2002); International Human Rights (rev. ed. 1999; 1st ed., 1993); The Concept of Human Rights (1995).

EUBEN, Roxanne – Associate Professor of Political Science, Wellesley College.
Research interests: comparative political theory; Western and non-Western political thought, with particular emphasis on Islamic political thought.
Sample publications: Enemy in the Mirror: Islamic Fundamentalism and the Limits of Modern Rationalism (1999); several articles on Islam and Western political theory.

ISHAY, Micheline – Professor, Graduate School of International Studies, University of Denver. Director of Human Rights Program, GSIS.
Sample publications: The History of Human Rights: From Ancient Times to the Era of Globalization (2004); The Nationalism Reader (ed., w/ Omar Dahbour, 1999); The Human Rights Reader: Major Political Essays, Speeches, and Documents from the Bible to the Present (1997); Internationalism and Its Betrayal (1995).

LAUREN, Paul Gordon – Regents Professor, University of Montana. Founding Director, The Mansfield Center. Formerly Mansfield Professor of Ethics and Public Affairs.
Sample publications: The Evolution of Human Rights: Visions Seen (1998); Power and Prejudice: The Politics and Diplomacy of Racial Discrimination (1996). Senior Fulbright Scholar; Rockefeller Foundation Humanities Fellow.

LIGHT, Margot – Professor and Convenor, Department of International Relations, London School of Economics and Political Science.
Sample publications: Ethics and Foreign Policy (ed., w/ Karen Smith, 2001); “The Export of Democracy” (2001); “Democracy, Democratization, and Foreign Policy in Post-Socialist Russia” (2000); “The Prospects for Democracy in Russia” (1998).

MACEDO, Stephen – Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Politics and The Center for Human Values, Princeton University. Director of Program in Ethics and Public Affairs.
Interests: liberalism, constitutionalism, and public policy; democracy and education; international jurisdiction
Sample publications: (ed.) Universal Jurisdiction: National Courts and the Prosecution of Serious Crimes Under International Law (2003). Author: Diversity and Distrust: Civic Education in Multicultural Democracy (2000); Liberal Virtues (1990).

MINOW, Martha L. – William Henry Bloomberg Professor of Law, Harvard Law School.
Sample publications: Imagining Co-Existence: Resorting Humanity After Violent Ethnic Conflict (ed., w/ Antonia Chayes, 2003); Partners Not Rivals: Privatization and the Public Good (2003); Breaking the Cycle of Hatred: Memory, Law, and Repression (ed., w/ Nancy Rosenblum, 2002); Between Vengeance and Forgiveness: Facing History After Genocide and Mass Violence (1998); Not Only for Myself: Identity, Politics, and Law (1997); Making All the Difference; Inclusion, Exclusion, and American Law (1991).

MUTUA, Makau wu – Professor of Law and Director of Human Rights Center, School of Law, University at Buffalo–SUNY. Doctor of Juridical Science and Master of Laws, Harvard Law School. Bachelor of Laws and Master of Laws, University of Dar-es-Salaam. Previously, Associate Director of Human Rights Program, Harvard Law School; Director of Africa Project, Lawyers’ Committee for Human Rights.
Sample publications: Human Rights: A Political and Cultural Critique (2002); “The Construction of the African Human Rights System: Prospects and Pitfalls” (2000); “The Legitimacy of Human Rights NGOs in Africa” (1999).

ROTH, Kenneth – Executive Director, Human Rights Watch (1993-present); previously, Associate Director. J.D., Yale Law School. Litigator.
Interests: conducting investigations around the globe, devoting special attention to issues of justice and accountability for gross abuses of human rights standards governing military conduct in time of war, the human rights policies of the United Nations and the United States, and the human rights responsibilities of multinational businesses.
Sample publications: over 70 articles and chapters on a range of human rights topics in such publications as The New York Times, The Washington Post, Foreign Affairs, International Herald Tribune, New York Review of Books.

SANFORD, Victoria – Senior Research Fellow at the Institute on Violence and Survival of the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, University of Virginia.
Sample publication: Buried Secrets: Truth and Human Rights in Guatemala (2003). It chronicles the journey of Mayan survivors of a genocidal campaign waged against them in Guatemala, based on more than 400 testimonies from massacre survivors, interviews with members of the forensic team, human rights leaders, high-ranking military officers, guerrilla combatants, and government officials.

TICKTIN, Miriam – Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of Michigan. Ph.D. Stanford University; M. Phil. Oxford University (Rhodes Scholar); B.A. Princeton University. Sample publications: “Medical Humanitarianism in and beyond France: Breaking Down or Patrolling Borders?” (forthcoming, in Medicine at the Border (Routledge), “Policing and Humanitarianism in France: Immigration and the Turn to Law as State of Exception” (2005)

WALZER, Michael – UPS Foundation Professor of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study–Princeton.
Interests: many topics in political theory and moral philosophy, political obligation, just and unjust wars, nationalism and ethnicity, economic justice and the welfare state.
Sample publications: Politics and Passion: Toward a More Egalitarian Liberalism (2004); Threads of Politics: Democracy, Social Criticism, and World Government (2002); The Jewish Political Tradition–Vol.1: Authority (co-ed., 2001), Vol. 2: Membership (co-ed., 2003); Just and Unjust Wars (rev. ed., 2000; prev. ed., 1992, 1977). On Toleration (1997); What It Means to be an American (1992); Spheres of Justice (1983).

WEISS, Thomas – Presidential Professor at the Graduate Center of The City University of New York and Director, Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies; co-director of United Nations Intellectual History Project; editor, Global Governance. Research Director, International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty.
Sample publications: The Responsibility to Protect: Research, Bibliography, Background (2001–outgrowth of International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty; United Nations and Changing World Politics (3rd. ed., 2001); Humanitarian Challenges and Interventions (2000); Military-Civilian Interactions: Intervening in Humanitarian Crises (1999).

WILSON, Richard A – Gladstein Distinguished Chair of Human Rights and Director of the Human Rights Institute at the University of Connecticut. Ph.D. London School of Economics and Political Science.
Sample Publications: (ed.) Human Rights in the ‘War on Terror’ (2005); Human Rights in Global Perspective (2003); Human Rights, Culture & Context: Anthropological Perspectives (1997). Author, Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa (2001); Maya Resurgence in Guatemala: Q’eqchi’ Experiences (1995)