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COURSE CATALOGUE
HUMAN RIGHTS STUDIES
Human Rights Studies
219 Milbank
Hall
854-5420/5417
www.barnard.edu/humright
Director: Professor J. Paul Martin
Faculty from other departments:
African Studies: Kaiama Glover
Anthropology: Nadia Abu El-Haj, Paige West
Asian and Middle Eastern Cultures: Rachel McDermott
Economics: Sanjay Reddy, Rajiv Sethi
English: James Basker
French: Serge Gavronsky, Kaiama Glover,
History: Jose Moya, Anupama Rao
Political Science: Severine Autesserre, Sheri Berman, Mona El-Ghobashy, Kimberly Marten, Ayton Gündõgdu, Xiaobo Lu
Psychology: Larry Heuer
Religion: John Hawley, Alan Segal
Slavic: Catherine Nepomnyashchy
Sociology: Jonathan Rieder
Spanish: Alfred McAdam
Women's Studies: Janet Jakobsen
For a complete list of
faculty on leave see:
http://www.barnard.edu/provost/facleavelist.html
With the proliferation of human rights institutions over the past half century and the central place of human rights in current debates about social justice, global equity, the role of war crimes tribunals and truth commissions, the problems of humanitarian intervention, or the changing role of global economic institutions, human rights standards have become crucial touchstones of contemporary ethics and politics. The program in human rights studies engages students in the emergent interdisciplinary discussion of rights, providing them with a knowledge of the theory and practice of human rights, stimulating critical examination of the historical and conceptual antecedents, selection and formulation, enforcement and violation, political and discursive uses of human rights, and allowing them the opportunity to reflect on a set of beliefs and practices fundamental to the shaping of their world. This interdisciplinary program is designed to be pursued alongside a major in one of the departments with a disciplinary or area studies focus-including, but not limited to Africana Studies, American Studies, Anthropology, Asian and Middle Eastern Cultures, Comparative Literature, English, French, German, History, Italian, Political Science, Psychology, Religion, Slavic, Sociology, Spanish, and Women's Studies.