SIS Faculty Conducting Research in Human Rights

Professorial Lecturer

Jeff Bachman is a professor of human rights, with a focus in state responsibility for violations of international human rights and humanitarian law. He is especially interested in the misuse of the law as a political tool through its selective applic... [More]

Assistant Professor

Dr. Aaron P. Boesenecker joined the SIS faculty in the fall of 2009 and is an Assistant Professor in the International Politics Program.  His research interests include European politics, comparative political economy, religion and politics, and qual... [More]

Assistant Professor

David Bosco, assistant professor of International Politics, is a past Fulbright Scholar and senior editor at Foreign Policy magazine. Formerly an attorney at Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton, he focused on international arbitration, litigation, and... [More]

Instructor

Professor

Dr. Ken Conca’s research and teaching focus on global environmental governance, environmental peacebuilding in war-torn societies, environmental politics and policy in the United Nations system, water governance, and environmental policy analysis. He... [More]

Professorial Lecturer

Adina Friedman holds a PhD from the Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University. Dr. Friedman grew up in Israel, and has worked and traveled extensively throughout the Middle East and parts of Europe. Her research intere... [More]

Assistant Professor

Dr. Loubna Skalli-Hanna is Assistant Professor in the International Development Program. She joined the American University in 2004 after teaching for 15 years at Moroccan Universities and Higher Institutes of Leaning (1987-2003). Dr. Skalli-Hanna’s ... [More]

Assistant Professor

Professor

Linda Lucia Lubrano teaches a wide range of courses that bridge the humanities with the natural and social sciences. Her classes draw upon film, literature, and philosophy, for example, and she combines political theory with the comparative study of ... [More]

Professor

Professor Julie Mertus is the co-director of Ethics, Peace and Global Affairs. She has written widely on human rights and gender, conflict, the Balkans, U.S. foreign policy and U.N. institutions. She is the author or editor of ten books, including Ba... [More]

Assistant Professor

Shadi Mokhtari specializes in human rights, Middle East Politics and Political Islam. She has an extensive background in human rights and women’s rights issues in the Middle East and Muslim World. She is the Editor in Chief of the Muslim World Journa... [More]

Professor

Dr. Said is the senior ranking professor at American University and the first occupant of the endowed Mohammed Said Farsi Chair of Islamic Peace. He founded the university-wide Center for Global Peace, which undertakes a range of activities, both on ... [More]

Professorial Lecturer

Dr. Tazreena Sajjad is a Professorial Lecturer in the International Politics program. Prior to this, she served as adjunct faculty for Human Rights and for the Community of Scholars Program at AU. Until 2006, Dr. Sajjad worked as the Global Rights' A... [More]

Associate Professor

Cathy Lisa Schneider writes and teaches on social movements, political violence, criminal justice, race, ethnicity and immigration in Europe, the United States, and Latin America. Her publications include, among others, the books Shantytown Protest i... [More]

Assistant Professor

Dr. Shepler's research interests include youth and conflict, reintegration of former child soldiers, post-conflict reconstruction, refugees, education and economic development, NGOs and globalization, transitional justice, and childhood studies. In a... [More]

Director, Social Enterprise Program

Robert Tomasko directs the Social Enterprise Program and holds a faculty appointment at American University, where he teaches graduate courses in corporate social responsibility, effective activism, leadership, NGO management and social entrepreneurs... [More]