The Breakthrough: Human Rights in the 197s

List of Contributors

C o n t r i b u t o r s Carl J. Bon Tempo is associate professor of history at the University at Albany , State University of New York. He is the author of Americans at the Gate: The United States and Refugees During the Cold War (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2008). Gunter Dehnert is Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter at the Catholic University of Eichstätt, Germany, where he studies and teaches East European history. He is currently writing his doctoral thesis on the impact of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe process on the Polish opposition movement. Celia Donert is lecturer in twentieth-century history at the University of Liverpool . Her most recent publication is “Women’s Rights in Cold War Europe: Disentangling Feminist Histories,” Past and Present 215 (Supplement 8, 2013, forthcoming). Jan Eckel teaches modern and contemporary history at the University of Freiburg, Germany. Among his publications on human rights history are “Human Rights and Decolonization: New Perspectives and Open Questions,” Humanity 1, no. 1 (Fall 2010): 111–137, and “The International League for the Rights of Man, Amnesty International, and the Changing Fate of International Human Rights NGOs,” Humanity 4, no. 2 (Summer 2013, forthcoming ). He is currently finishing a book on the history of international human rights politics from the 1940s through the 1990s. Lasse Heerten is a doctoral candidate in contemporary history at Free University Berlin. He is currently finishing a dissertation entitled “Spectacles of 328 Contributors Suffering: The Biafran War of Secession and Human Rights in a Postcolonial World, 1967–1970.” Patrick William Kelly is a doctoral candidate in international history at the UniversityofChicago .Heiscurrentlycompletinghisdissertation,whichexaminesthe rise of transnational human rights activism in the Americas in the “long 1970s.” Samuel Moyn is James Bryce Professor of European Legal History at Columbia University. His most recent book is The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History (Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2010). Benjamin Nathans is Ronald S. Lauder Endowed Term Associate Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania. He is completing a book on the history of the Soviet dissident movement. Ned Richardson-Little is completing his doctorate in history from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, with a dissertation entitled “Between Dictatorship and Dissent: Human Rights in East Germany, 1945–1990.” Daniel Sargent is assistant professor of history at the University of California , Berkeley. He is coeditor of The Shock of the Global: The 1970s in Perspec­ tive (Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2010) and is completing a book on United States foreign policy in the 1970s. Brad Simpson is associate professor of history and Asian studies at the University of Connecticut. He is the author of Economists with Guns: Authoritar­ ian Development and U.S.­Indonesian Relations (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2008) and is currently writing a history of United StatesIndonesian relations during the reign of General Suharto (1966–1998). Lynsay Skiba is a doctoral candidate in history at the University of California , Berkeley. Her dissertation explores the development of human rights practice through an analysis of individual rights activism, executive power, and the law in twentieth-century Argentina. Simon Stevens is a doctoral candidate in history at Columbia University. He is completing a dissertation on the forms of international pressure developed in the struggle against apartheid in South Africa. ...