Biography Full Biography   Current Research Interests Arts and human rights Richard Lubben came to Ottawa as the Fulbright Chair in Human Rights and Social Justice at HRREC in 2013. He is a visual artist and was Associate Professor at South Texas College (STC). At STC he has served as the Department Chairperson for Communications and Creative Arts, the Presid...
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Biography Gloria Lopez, Esq., a native of Belize, provides guidance on affirmative action matters to the 64 State University of New York campuses. She is passionate about social justice and human rights and understands the importance of fostering relationships with people from different backgrounds. As a member of the NYS Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civ...
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Biography Dr. Levitt held the Fulbright Visiting Research Chair in Human Rights and Social Justice at the Human Rights Research and Education Center (HRREC) in 2012. He was a distinguished professor of international law in Florida A&M University, associate dean for international programs, founding director of the Center for International Law and Justice and special assistant to the provost. He formerly served as a professor of law at Florida International University and DePaul University. ...
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Biography Research Interests International Relations in the Middle East Israel-Palestine conflict Globalisation and Human Rights Statebuilding, Peacebuilding and Power Critical Theory, Foreign Policy Analysis B.A. (Lancs), M.A. (Lancs.), Ph.D. (Exon.) Philip Leech-Ngo, Ph.D., was the Gordon F. Henderson Post-doctoral Fellow (2016-2017) at the Human Rights Rese...
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Biography Full Biography Current Research Interests  Legal pluralism Human rights in China and Taiwan Foreign and domestic workers rights. University Degrees: Ph.D., University of British Columbia, Vancouver, 1999 M.A., University of British Columbia, Vancouver, 1992 B.A., Université du Québec à Montréal, Montréal, 1991 Professor Laliberté is profess...
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Biography Full Biography Larisa Kurtović is a political anthropologist who has conducted research on postwar reconstruction, collective memory and activist politics in Bosnia-Herzegovina for over a decade. She holds a PhD in Social and Cultural Anthropology from University of California, Berkeley. Prior to coming to University of Ottawa in 2015, she was a postdoctoral ...
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​​​​​​Biography Korina Jocson, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Education at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Central to her research are arts-informed sociocultural approaches for examining the ways in which young people engage in different modes of expression in their lives. Examples include writing and media production (broadly construed) not only as representations of everyday literacies but also as forms of critical engagement. She primarily draws on qualitative inquiry and works ...
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Biography Jeonghyeon Kim recently earned a Ph.D. in Political Science with a specialization of Human Rights and Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Her dissertation, “At the Border of Human Rights: Analyzing State Compliance with International Refugee Protection Norms”, focuses on the role of political leadership and refugee civi...
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Biography Full Biography Current research interests International Human Rights Law Development Economics Child Labour Corporate Social Responsibility Children’s Participation MA Journalism (Western University), BA Liberal Arts with a major in Anthropology (Lethbridge) Andrea Khan is a doctoral student at the University of Ottawa’s School of International Deve...
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Biography Research Interests Statelessness and citizenship Voluntary statelessness Refusal and exit Jocelyn Kane is a doctoral student in Political Science at the University of Ottawa. Her research interests are centered on the citizenship/statelessness regime with respect to state power and access to rights, and statelessness within political theory. Jocelyn’s c...
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