Contributors
- Contributors
Michelle Carmody is an interdisciplinary scholar, trained in area studies (Latin America) with a thematic specialty in human rights. Her first book, Human Rights, Transitional Justice and the Reconstruction of Political Power in Latin America (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), looks at how state actors translated human rights demands into public policy in the form of transitional justice. Her current research is international in scope and uses Amnesty International as a window onto how and why individuals from different geographical, political, and cultural contexts came together and defined what it meant to be a human rights activist and a human rights organization.
Lasse Heerten is lecturer in transnational history at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum. His first book, The Biafran War and Postcolonial Humanitarianism: Spectacles of Suffering (Cambridge, 2017), analyzes how the Nigerian Civil War, a “third world” conflict of initially marginal international interest, was turned into the global media and protest event “Biafra,” epitome of humanitarian crisis and distant suffering. He is currently working on his second monograph, a global urban history of the port of Hamburg in the age of empire.
Jennifer Johnson is associate professor of history at Brown University. Her first book, The Battle for Algeria: Sovereignty, Health Care, and Humanitarianism (University of Pennsylvania, 2016), offers a new interpretation of the Algerian War (1954–1962) and foregrounds the centrality of health and humanitarianism to the nationalists’ war effort. Her current research examines the relationship between public health and state building. Specifically, it explores family planning programs in postcolonial Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia, and shows how newly independent regimes partnered with international organizations on this particular initiative to develop their countries and expand their national health services in the wake of decolonization.
Laura Kunreuther is associate professor at Bard College. Her first book, Voicing Subjects: Public Intimacy and Mediation in Kathmandu (University of California Press, 2014), traces the relation between public speech and notions of personal interiority during a moment of political upheaval in Nepal. She is currently engaged in two new projects that both explore sound, listening, and political subjectivity. The first centers on the use of sound for political and artistic protest; the second centers on the role of interpreters deployed in field missions of the UN.
Jasbir K. Puar is professor at the Department of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Rutgers University, New Jersey. She is the author of Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times (Duke, 2007 and 2017) and The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability (Duke, 2017).
Christof Royer holds a PhD in international relations from the University of St Andrews, an MLitt in international political theory from the University of St Andrews, an LLM degree in international law from the University of Reading and a Magister Juris (law) degree from the University of Vienna. His book Evil as a Crime against Humanity: Confronting Mass Atrocities in a Plural World has been published in the International Political Theory series (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021). Christof has published in academic journals such as CRISPP, Human Rights Review, Distinktion, Criminal Law and Philosophy, and Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding.
Tom Scott-Smith is associate professor of refugee studies and forced migration at the University of Oxford. His first book, On an Empty Stomach: Two Hundred Years of Hunger Relief (Cornell, 2020), examines the history of humanitarian nutritional technologies, high protein foods, and emergency rations. He is now writing a book on disaster shelter, studying seven attempts to provide emergency accommodation to refugees since 2015. His related article on the Ikea shelter, “Beyond the Boxes: Refugee Shelter and the Humanitarian Politics of Life,” appeared in American Ethnologist in 2019.
Oishik Sircar is associate professor at the Jindal Global Law School, O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat and Visiting Fellow, University of Technology Sydney Law School, Sydney. He is the author of Violent Modernities: Cultural Lives of Law in the New India (Oxford, 2020) and co-edited New Intimacies, Old Desires: Law, Culture and Queer Politics in Neoliberal Times (Zubaan, 2017).
