Directory
Ted Downing
Research Professor, Social Development, Department of Research, Innovation, and Impact
Aresta Tsosie-Paddock
Assistant Professor of American Indian Studies
Christina Vanoverbeke
HRTS MA Alum
Executive Committee
Mette Brogden
Assistant Professor of Practice, Human Rights Practice Program
Executive Committee Member
Contact person for Graduate Programs
Maritza Cárdenas
Director of Global Studies
Associate Professor of English
Executive Committee Member
Leonard Hammer
Director of Outreach and Program Development
Human Rights Practice Graduate Programs (SBS)
Elisa Marchi
Assistant Professor of Practice, Human Rights Practice
Human Rights Attorney
Executive Committee Member
Beverly Seckinger
Professor, School of Theatre, Film and Television
Executive Committee Member
Contact person for the Grad Certificate in Documentary Media
Social/Cultural/Critical Theory - GIDP
Director
Program Faculty
Santa Arias
Professor and Head in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Joyceen Boyle
Country Specialist for Amnesty Internationsl, USA
Associate Dean of UA College of Nursing (Retired)
Alex Braithwaite
Professor and Associate Director, School of Government and Public Policy
Mette Brogden
Assistant Professor of Practice, Human Rights Practice Program
Executive Committee Member
Contact person for Graduate Programs
Sheena Brown
Assistant Professor
Program Director, Human Services
Program Director, Family Studies and Human Development
Program Director, Military Faculty Program
Nolan Cabrera
Professor, Educational Policy Studies and Practice
Associate Professor, American Indian Studies-GIDP
Associate Professor, Social / Cultural / Critical Theory - GIDP
Megan Carney
Associate Professor, School of Anthropology
Director, UA Center for Regional Food Studies
Faten Ghosn
Associate Professor, School of Government and Public Policy
Faculty, School of Middle Eastern and North African Studies
Celeste González de Bustamante
Professor of Journalism
Director, Center for Border & Global Journalism
Anastasia Gordienko
Assistant Professor of Russian and Slavic Studies
Leonard Hammer
Director of Outreach and Program Development
Human Rights Practice Graduate Programs (SBS)
Seanna Howard
Clinician and Professor of Practice, College of Law, Indigenous Peoples Law and Policy Program
Leila Hudson
Associate Professor, Modern Middle East Culture and Political Economy
Kristine A. Huskey
Clinical Professor of Law
Director, Veterans' Advocacy Law Clinic, James E. Rogers College of Law
Domale Dube Keys
Adjunct Professor, Department of Women and Gender Studies
Liudmila Klimanova
Assistant Professor, MA Program in Russian Studies, University of Arizona
Affiliated Faculty, SLAT Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program, University of Arizona
Amy Kraehe
Associate Professor, School of Art, University of Arizona
Jamie A. Lee
Assistant Professor of Digital Culture, Information and Society in the School of Information, The University of Arizona
Colleen Lucey
Assistant Professor, Department of Russian and Slavic Studies
Elisa Marchi
Assistant Professor of Practice, Human Rights Practice
Human Rights Attorney
Executive Committee Member
Shefali Milczarek-Desai
Director, Workers' Rights Clinic
Associate Clinical Professor of Law
Co-Chair, Bacon Immigration Law and Policy Program
Kaitlin Murphy
Associate Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Anna Ochoa O'Leary
Professor and Department Head, Mexican American Studies
Elizabeth Oglesby
Associate Professor of Geography and Latin American Studies
V. Spike Peterson
Professor of International Relations, School of Government and Public Policy
Shayna Plaut
Acting Manager, Centre for Human Rights Research, University of Manitoba
Adjunct Instructor, UA Program in Human Rights Practice
Robin C. Reineke
Assistant Research Social Scientist, Anthropology, University of Arizona Southwest Center
Co-Founder and Executive Director, Colibri Center for Human Rights
Adjunct Instructor, UA Program in Human Rights Practice
Jeannine Relly
Professor of Journalism
Director of Global Initiatives, Center for Border & Global Journalism
Raquel Rubio-Goldsmith
Co-Director, Binational Migration Institute
Kirssa Cline Ryckman
Associate Professor, School of Government and Public Policy
Beverly Seckinger
Professor, School of Theatre, Film and Television
Executive Committee Member
Contact person for the Grad Certificate in Documentary Media
Social/Cultural/Critical Theory - GIDP
Katherine Snyder
Director, Master's Program in Development Practice
Professor, School of Geography, Development, and Environment
Michelle Tellez
Associate Professor of Mexican-American Studies
Rebecca A. Tsosie
Regents' Professor of Law, James E. Rogers College of Law
Faculty Co-Chair, Indigenous Peoples Law and Policy Program
Marcela Vasquez-Leon
Director, Latin American Studies
Professor of Anthropology
Research Anthropologist
Scott Whiteford
Emeritus Professor, Center for Latin American Studies
Director of the Mexican Initiative for the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences
Robert A. Williams
E. Thomas Sullivan Professor of Law
Faculty Co-Chair, Indigenous Peoples Law and Policy Program, Rogers College of Law
Staff
Students
Robin Al-haddad
HRTS MA alum
Victoria Bennett
HRTS MA Student
Beth E. Boyett
HRTS MA Alum
Bradford Conroy
HRTS MA Alum
Aviva Doery
HRTS MA alum
Peter Donaldson
HRTS MA Alum
Lucero Gonzaléz Alvarado
HRTS MA Student
Edita Habibic
HRTS MA Alum
Sarah Nassiwa
HRTS MA Alum
Robert Owens
HRTS MA Alum
Sarah Parkin
HRTS MA alum
International Advisory Board
Serge Bambara (Smockey)
Hip Hop artist
activist
founder/owner of Studio Abazon in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
Anton Burkov
Director and Principal Attorney of the human rights NGO Strategic Litigation Center
Cristina Coc
Maya Leaders Alliance co-spokesperson
Founder and Program Director for Julian Cho Society
Savo Heleta
Researcher and Educator
Kamila Mateeva
Associate Professor of Law Program
Director of the LL.M program at the American University of Central Asia
Venkatesh Nayak
Coordinator of Access to Information, Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative
Kishali Pinto-Jayawardena
Commissioner, Right to Information (RTI) Commission of Sri Lanka
Shayna Plaut
Acting Manager, Centre for Human Rights Research, University of Manitoba
Adjunct Instructor, UA Program in Human Rights Practice
Gaye Sowe
Executive Director, Institute for Human Rights and Development in Africa
Kah Walla
Entrepreneur, Activist and Political Leader from Cameroon