Contributors
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Kerry Bystrom is assistant professor of English and associate director of the Foundations of Humanitarianism program of the Human Rights Institute at the University of Connecticut. She is also research associate of the School of Literature and Language Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. She has published a variety of articles and chapters on topics ranging from South African cultural studies to theories of literature and human rights; among her current research projects is a manuscript-in-progress titled Millennial Humanitarianism: Public Intellectuals, Celebrity Culture, and Global Obligation.
Greg Constantine is a photographer. Born in the United States, he is currently based in southeast Asia, where he moved in late 2005 to work on "Nowhere People," which documents the struggles of ethnic minority groups who have had their citizenship denied or stripped from them and are stateless. His work has received numerous accolades, among them an Amnesty International Human Rights Press Award in Hong Kong and a Day's Japan International Photojournalism Award. He is the recipient of a grant from the Documentary Photography Project of the Open Society Institute as well as a visiting research fellowship from Oxford Brookes University. Projections and exhibitions of work from "Nowhere People" have been held in southeast Asia, Kenya, London, and Geneva. His first book, Kenya's Nubians: Then and Now, appears this year.
Elizabeth Swanson Goldberg is associate professor of English at Babson College. Her book Beyond Terror: Gender, Narrative, Human Rights (New Brunswick, N.J., 2007) explores the ethics of representing human rights violations in twentieth-century literature and film with special attention to theories of distanced witnessing and questions of gender and narrative form. She is editor of a special issue of Peace Review (spring 2008) on film, literature, and human rights, and co-editor, with Alexandra Schultheis Moore, of Theoretical Perspectives on Human Rights and Literature (London, 2011).
Wendy S. Hesford is professor of English at Ohio State University. She is the author of Framing Identities: Autobiography and the Politics of Pedagogy (Minneapolis, 1999), as well as co-editor, with Wendy Kozol, of two collections: Haunting Violations: Feminist Criticism and the Crisis of the "Real" (Champaign, Ill., 2001) and Just Advocacy? Women's Human Rights, Transnational Feminisms, and the Politics of Representation (New Brunswick, N.J., 2005). Hesford's new book, Spectacular Rhetorics: Human Rights Visions, Recognitions, Feminisms, is out from Duke University Press.
Tobias Kelly teaches social anthropology at the University of Edinburgh. His first book, Law, Violence, and Sovereignty among West Bank Palestinians (Cambridge, 2006), examined the everyday relationship between legality and fear in the Israeli-Palestinian [End Page 345] conflict. He has recently completed his second monograph, This Side of Silence (Philadelphia, 2011), which is an ethnographic examination of the tensions between law, medicine, and ethics in attempts to recognize torture.
Kathryn Libal is assistant professor of community organization in the School of Social Work at the University of Connecticut. She earned her Ph.D. in anthropology at the University of Washington and wrote her dissertation on child welfare, children's rights, and state formation in Turkey in the 1930s. She recently co-edited, with Shareen Hertel, Human Rights in the United States: Beyond Exceptionalism (Cambridge, 2011). In the past three years she has conducted research on international non-governmental advocacy on behalf of Iraqi forced migrants and has published several book chapters and articles on the basis of this work.
Samuel Martínez is associate professor of anthropology at the University of Connecticut. In 2005, he contributed an extensive expert affidavit in support of the case of Yean and Bosico v. Dominican Republic, presented before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. He is the author of two ethnographic monographs and several articles on the migrant and minority rights of people of Haitian ancestry in the Dominican Republic. He has also edited International Migration and Human Rights (available in print and as a free-of-charge e-book from the University of California Press).
Diana Tietjens Meyers is Ignacio Ellacuría Chair of Social Ethics and professor of philosophy at Loyola University, Chicago. She works on the philosophy of action, feminist ethics, and human rights theory. Her monographs are Inalienable...
