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Interdepartmental Committee on Human Rights




Certificate Programs: Certificate in Human Rights

Chair: Andrew J. Nathan, Ph.D.
714 IAB
Tel: 212.854.6909


Faculty

Lisa Anderson:
Dean, School of International and Public Affairs, James T. Shotwell Professor of International Relations (Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and School of International and Public Affairs), Ph.D., Columbia, 1981
Interests: Comparative politics and Middle East, Arab world, North Africa, political development, regime change, Islamic politics, political liberalization, the state and state formation in the third world, comparative colonialism, economic reform in the third world
Peter J. Awn:
Professor, Ph.D., Harvard, 1978
Interests: Islamic religion; history of religions; human rights in Islam
Jean Cohen:
Professor, Ph.D., New School for Social Research, 1979
Interests: Contemporary political theory; international political theory, sovereignty and international law, globalization and international law
Wm. Theodore deBary:
Professor Emeritus, Ph.D., Columbia, 1953
Interests: Chinese and Japanese thought; Confucianism and human rights
Joan M. Ferrante:
Professor, Ph.D., Columbia, 1963
Interests: Comparative medieval literature, including Dante, provencal poetry, allegory, romance, woman; also human rights, specifically women's and religious human rights
Louis Henkin:
University Professor Emeritus, LL.B., L.H.B., LL.B., J.D.(hon.), Harvard, Yeshiva, Columbia, Brooklyn, 1940, 1963, 1995, 1997
Interests: Human Rights, Constitutionalism, International Law
Andrew J. Nathan:
Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science, Ph.D., Harvard, 1971
Interests: Comparative politics; Chinese politics; Contemporary Chinese domestic politics and foreign policy, comparative political participation and political culture
Julie Peters:
Professor, Ph.D., Princeton, 1986
Interests: Drama and theatre history; law and literature; dramatic theory; human rights and culture; customary law and human rights
Thomas Pogge:
Professor, Ph.D., Harvard, 1983
Interests: Global justice, social and political philosophy, ethics and moral philosophy
David Rothman:
Professor, Ph.D., Harvard, 1964
Interests: American social history; history of medicine
Barbara Simon:
Associate Professor of Social Work, Ph.D., Bryn Mawr
Interests: Organizational culture and behavior; history of social work, social welfare philanthropy and public health; postcolonial contexts of social work practice; women’s studies, gender studies, gay, lesbian and queer populations; disability studies
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak:
Professor, Ph.D., Cornell, 1967
Interests: 19th-century literature; Marxism; feminism; deconstruction; poststructuralism




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