This project examines Arabic traditions of people power that began in the 10th and the ways that groups and individuals used expressive art to prevent or resolve conflict in non-violent means.
Results for "human rights and social justice"
Projects
Faculty
Critical pedagogy in contemporary context; curriculum theory; critical and marxist theory; globalization and education; philosophy of education; cultural studies, feminist and postcolonial theory; education policy…
Professor Dulitzky is a leading expert in human rights in Latin America, particularly on the inter-American human rights system and enforced disappearances. He has published extensively on human rights, the inter-…
Professor Engle writes on the interaction between social movements and law, particularly in the fields of international human rights law, international criminal law, and Latin American law. She teaches courses in…
Dr. George Flaherty is Associate Professor of Art History and Director of the Center for Latin American Visual Studies (CLAVIS). His research and teaching focus primarily on modern and contemporary art and…
Dr Forbath's current research concerns the role of law in the creation of the modern American state, and social and economic rights in the courts and social movements of South Africa.
History of American…
History of Brazil; environmental history of Latin America; Amazonian and indigenous history; food studies; race, ethnicity and migration in Latin America; comparative frontiers; Cold War Latin America
Dr. Gershoff's research interests center on four topics: (1) how parental discipline affects child and youth development; (2) how contexts of poverty, neighborhoods, schools, and cultures affect children, youth, and…
Culture and Power in the Black Diaspora; Critical Gender Studies (particularly Black men); Critical Race Theory; Race Education; Racial Economy of Space and Resources; Race Gender and Commemoration