Faculty

Below is a list of faculty associated with the Center for Human Rights. Clicking the individual's name will take you to his/her webpage. Faculty members with an asterisk next to their names are members of the Center's Steering Committee.

 

Director

*Angelina Snodgrass Godoy
Associate Professor, Jackson School of Intl Studies; Law, Societies, & Justice

Helen H. Jackson Chair in Human Rights
Research Interests: law and society; Latin America, especially Central America; human rights and trade; health as a human right; labor rights; environmental justice
agodoy@u.washington.edu

Faculty Associates                         

Gunnar Almgren
Director, PhD Program in Social Welfare
Associate Professor of Social Work and Social Welfare
The School of Social Work
Research Interests: health care policy and practice; organizational practice; morbidity; mortality; social behavior
mukboy@u.washington.edu

James A. Banks
Kerry and Linda Killinger Endowed Chair in Diversity Studies and Director
Center for Multicultural Education
Research Interests: multicultural education in the U. S. and in other nations; diversity and citizenship education in multicultural nation-states
jbanks@uw.edu

David Barash
Professor, Psychology
Research Interests: sociobiology; animal behavior; evolutionary psychology; peace studies
dpbarash@u.washington.edu

Gad Barzilai
Professor of International Studies, Law & Political Science
Jackson School of International Studies
Comparative Law and Society Studies Center
Law, Societies and Justice Program
Research Interests: political legal dis/order in times of warfare and emergencies; political elite and ‘rally around the flag’ phenomenon; legitimacy sources of Supreme Courts; non-judicial legal institutions and political conflicts; human rights; law and communities; law and religion; political corruption; lawyers and the liberal project; legal rights in cyberspace; epistemology of law and society scholarship; genealogy of law in political power
gbarzil@u.washington.edu

*Katherine Beckett
Professor, Department of Sociology
Law, Societies & Justice Program
Research Interests: crime, law and deviance; culture and media; political sociology; gender; drug use; socio-legal studies; punishment; social control
kbeckett@u.washington.edu

Michael Blake
Associate Professor of Philosophy and Public Affairs
Research Interests: immigration, international justice, and multiculturalism.
miblake@u.washington.edu

Sharan E. Brown
Research Professor, College of Education
Adjunct Research Professor, School of Law
Acting Director, Disability Studies Program
Research Interests: children's rights and legal development in Southeast
Asia and national and international disability rights
sbrown@u.washington.edu

Daniel Chirot
Job and Gertrud Tamaki Professor of International Studies
Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies
Research Interests: ethnic and nationalist conflicts; politically motivated mass murder
chirot@u.washington.edu

Rachel Cichowski
Associate Professor
Department of Political Science and the Law, Societies and Justice Program
Research Interests: comparative law and politics; international law and organization; transnational mobilization; democratization and globalization around the world
rcichows@u.washington.edu

Tom Cobb
Senior Lecturer, Law
Research Interests: legal rhetoric; statutory interpretation; immigration law; evidence
tomcobb@uw.edu

Robert Crawford
Professor, Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences
UW Tacoma Campus
Research interests: U.S. torture policy; national security;war and ideology; culture
crawford@u.washington.edu

*Sara Curran
Associate Professor, Evans School
Director, International Studies & Associate Director, CSDE, Jackson School
Research Interests: social demography; gender; environment; development and globalization; internal migration in developing countries; family demography; population
scurran@u.washington.edu

*Michael Forman
Associate Professor, Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, UW Tacoma Campus
Research Interests: modern European culture and ideas; critical theory; political economy
forman@u.washington.edu

Batya Friedman
Professor, The Information School
Director, Value Sensitive Design Research Lab
Adjunct Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Adjunct Professor, Department of Human-Centered Design and Engineering
Research Interests: multi-lifespan information systems design; value sensitive design; social-cognitive and cultural aspects of information systems; human-computer interaction
batya@uw.edu
Voices from the Rwanda Tribunal Project
Value Sensitive Design Research Lab

Kathie Friedman
Associate Professor, Jackson School of International Studies
Research Interests: U.S. refugee protection and resettlement policy; Bosnian refugee families in the US.; comparative refugee diasporas
friedman@u.washington.edu

Maria Elena Garcia
Comparative History of Ideas/Jackson School of International Studies
Director, Clowes Center for the Study of Conflict and Dialogue
Research Interests: indigeneity; multicultural politics; development in the Andes; indigenous intellectual production; human-animal articulations
meg71@u.washington.edu

Stephen M. Gardiner
Ben Rabinowitz Endowed Professor of the Human Dimension of the Environment
Department of Philosophy and Program on Values in Society
Research Interests: future generations; global environmental problems (especially climate change); Aristotelian virtue ethics
smgard@u.washington.edu

Christoph Giebel
Associate Professor, School of International Studies & Dept. of History
Research Interests: Viet Nam; Southeast Asia; human rights in Asia; imperialism, war, and anti-colonialism
giebel@u.washington.edu

Stephen Gloyd, MD, MPH
Professor, Departments of Global Health and Health Services
Schools of Public Health and Medicine
Research Interests: infectious disease epidemiology (STD, TB, EPI); health systems research; political economy of health; impact and equity in health care
gloyd@u.washington.edu

Sara Goering
Assistant Professor, Philosophy
Research Interests: medical ethics, disability studies, feminist philosophy
sgoering@u.washington.edu

Steve Herbert
Professor, Department of Geography
Law, Societies and Justice Program
Research Interests: urban policing; environmental law and regulation
skherb@u.washington.edu

Danny Hoffman
Assistant Professor
Department of Anthropology
Research Interests: visual anthropology; violence and militarism; experimental ethnography; West Africa
djh13@u.washington.edu

*Judith Howard
Professor, Sociology
Divisional Dean of Social Sciences, College of Arts & Sciences
Research Interests: social psychology; social cognition; sociology of gender; intersections of race, class, gender and sexuality; pedagogy
jhoward@u.washington.edu

Lucy Jarosz
Associate Professor
Department of Geography
Research Interests: food and agriculture; rural poverty and inequality; development; environmental change
jarosz@u.washington.edu

Resat Kasaba
Henry M. Jackson Professor in International Studies
Jackson School of International Studies
Research Interests: economic history, state-society relations, migration, ethnicity and nationalism of the Ottoman Empire and Turkey; urban history with a focus on Izmir
kasaba@u.washington.edu

Turan Kayaoglu
Associate Professor of International Relations
Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences
turan@u.washington.edu

Emily Keller
Political Science and Public Affairs Librarian
UW Libraries
Research Interests: political science; public affairs; disability studies; law societies and justice; military science; comparative history of ideas
emkeller@uw.edu

Maureen Kelley, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics
University of Washington School of Medicine
Scholar, Treuman Katz Center for Pediatric Bioethics
Seattle Children's Hospital & Research Institute
Research Interests: ethical issues in maternal and child global health, with special focus on orphans and other children without families.
mckelley@u.washington.edu

*Bruce Kochis
Senior Lecturer, Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences, UW Bothell Campus
Research Interests: human rights in developed and developing societies
bkochis@u.washington.edu

Ron Krabill
Associate Professor
Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences, UW Bothell
Department of Communication, UW Seattle
Research Interests: electronic, independent and transnational media; scholarship of teaching and learning; questions of digital, public humanities
RKrabill@uwb.edu

Dennis Lang
Associate Director, Disability Studies
University of Washington
Research Interests: disability studies; disability rights movement; public health
dlang@u.washington.edu

Clark B. Lombardi, J.D., Ph.D
Associate Professor of Law
University of Washington School of Law
Research Interests: Islamic law; constitutional law; federalism; comparative law; development law
lombardi@u.washington.edu

Frederick Michael Lorenz JD, LLM
Senior Lecturer, Jackson School of International Studies
Research Interests: International Humanitarian Law (SISME420); War Crimes and the Law of Armed Conflict; International Criminal Court; International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia; Challenges of International Justice: Exploration Seminar in August 2010 at the Irish Centre for Human Rights and in The Hague
lorenz@u.washington.edu

George I. Lovell
Associate Professor, Political Science
Harry Bridges Endowed Chair in Labor Studies
Research Interests: effect of courts and other political institutions on social movements and campaigns for policy change, rights consciousness, American constitutional development
glovell@u.washington.edu

José Antonio Lucero
Jackson School of International Studies/Latin American Studies
Research Interests: indigenous politics, social movements, and representation in Ecuador, Bolivia, and Peru
jal26@u.washington.edu

*Jamie Mayerfeld
Professor, Political Science
Adjunct Professor, Law, Societies and Justice
jasonm@u.washington.edu
Research Interests: constitutional devices, both domestic and transnational, best suited to protect human rights; International Criminal Court; the European human rights regime; justifications of international human rights law and international criminal law; the origins of the U.S. torture policy; the absolute moral prohibition of torture

*Michael McCann
Professor, Political Science
Research Interests: public law; American politics;
Political Theory
mwmccann@u.washington.edu

Katharyne Mitchell
Professor and Chair, Department of Geography
Research Interests: impact of transnational migration on the philosophies and practices of education
kmitch@u.washington.edu

Adam D. Moore
Associate Professor of Philsophy, Department of Philosophy
Information School
Program on Values
Research Interests: information ethics, philosophy of law; normative ethics; Social and Political Theory
moore2@u.washington.edu

Naomi Murakawa
Assistant Professor
Department of Political Science
Research Interests: American political development; American racial formation; feminist politics; the politics of crime and punishment
murakawa@u.washington.edu

Amos Nascimento
Asssistant Professor,
Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, UW Tacoma Campus
anascim@u.washington.edu

*Joel Ngugi
Assistant Professor, Law
Chair, African Studies Program
Research Interests: law, development and wealth allocation; human rights; indigenous rights; and human rights and democratic governance
jngugi@u.washington.edu

Arzoo Osanloo, J.D., PhD
Associate Professor, Law, Societies & Justice Program
Research Interests: human rights; women's rights; Islamic law; refugees; Iran
aosanloo@u.washington.edu

*Glenda Pearson
Human Rights Librarian, UW Libraries
Research Interests: human rights research materials; Pacific Northwest activist group archives; human rights and film; media and literary censorship
pearson@u.washington.edu

Michael Vincent Perez, PhD
PhD Michigan State 2011, Lecturer
Research Interests: Sociocultural anthropology and Near East Studies, ethnicity and nationalism, transnational migration and displacement (diaspora), refugees and human rights, Muslim politics, memory and violence

Janet Primomo, PhD, RN
Associate Professor
University of Washington, Tacoma
Research Interests: health policy; program evaluation; community health promotion; chronic illness prevention; environmental health; global health; nursing education
jprimomo@u.washington.edu

Beth E. Rivin, M.D., M.P.H.
Director, Global Health and Justice Project
Research Associate Professor, Law
Adjunct, Global Health and Bioethics and Humanities
Research Interests: global health and human rights; global bioethics; human rights analysis of health policy; practical applications and implementation of the right to health in low and middle income countries; local Implementation of international human rights law
brivin@u.washington.edu

Stephen A. Rosenbaum
Visiting Senior Lecturer, Gates Hall School of Law
Lecturer, Stanford Law School & Berkeley Law
Research Interests: Comparative Legal and Clinical Education, Disability, Special Education, Lay Advocacy, Alternative Dispute Resolution
srosenb@uw.edu

Laurie J. Sears
Professor of History
Director and Chair, Southeast Asia Center
Jackson School of International Studies
Research Interests: Indonesia; Southeast Asia; psychoanalysis; colonialism; historiography
lsears@uw.edu

Matthew Sparke
Professor of Geography and International Studies
Adjunct Professor of Global Health
Director of Global Health Minor
Research Interests: Globalization; global health; health as a human right; intellectual property law and access to medicines; tissue-and-benefit sharing; legal geographies of bioethics and biopolitics
sparke@u.washington.edu

Cynthia Steele
Professor of Comparative Literature
Chair, Department of Comparative Literature
Research Interests: social change and human rights in Latin American literature and film
cynthias@u.washington.edu

Stuart Streichler
Affiliate Associate Professor, Law, Societies and Justice Program
Research Interests: constitutional history; American political thought; civil liberties; law and race
sstreich@u.washington.edu

*William Talbott
Professor, Philosophy
Associate Faculty Member of the Program on Values in Society
Affiliated Faculty Member in the Law, Societies, and Justice Program
Research Interests: moral and political philosophy; philosophy of human rights; philosophy of law; epistemology; rational choice theory
wtalbott@u.washington.edu

Stew Tolnay
Professor, Department of Sociology
Research Interests: demography; family; race/ethnicity
tolnay@u.washington.edu

Charles Williams
Assistant Professor, Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, UW Tacoma Campus
Research Interests: labor politics; the New Deal
charles1@u.washington.edu

Louis E. Wolcher
Charles I. Stone Professor of Law
University of Washington School of Law
Research Interests: philosophy of law; legal and political theory; human rights
wolcher@u.washington.edu

 

 

 

 

Center for Human Rights
University of Washington
Cunningham 214
Box 353650
Seattle, WA 98195
►uwchr@uw.edu

Angelina Snodgrass Godoy
Helen H. Jackson Endowed Chair in Human Rights
Director, Center for Human Rights
►agodoy@u.washington.edu

Gai-Hoai T. Nguyen
Assistant Director, Center for Human Rights
►ghoaitn@uw.edu