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Human Rights Working Group
The Human Rights Working Group (HRWG) is a coalition of faculty from the USF College
of Arts & Sciences and the School of Education, which works together to promote
awareness of international human rights. We’ve united to explore and pursue
possibilities for greater collaboration and support.
The HRWG faculty members engage in a wide variety of human rights work, both
on and off campus:
(a) Courses - We teach a range of courses on both narrow and broader
human rights issues, and we offer those courses from a wide array of disciplines
in the arts, humanities, sciences, and education
(b) Research – We’re engaged in many different kinds of human rights
research, ranging from local to national to global themes, and several of us
are among the recipients of the first Human Rights Research Fellowships, offered
by the Center for Law & Global Justice and the McCarthy Center for Public
Policy & the Common Good
(c) Fieldwork – Several of us run courses or projects that allow students
to
become immersed in the work of human rights organizations. Some offer full-blown
internship courses, while others offer service learning opportunities. The fieldwork
is located both locally as well as outside the Bay Area, including internship
opportunities abroad
(d) Advocacy – Some HRWG members are active in human rights
advocacy, such as through their writing, their artistic work, the political
activism, or their participation in non-governmental human rights organizations
(e) Film Festivals – The HRWG sponsors at least a couple of film festivals
on campus each year, including the annual Human Rights Film Festival each spring
(f) Programs – Many HRWG faculty are involved in running or teaching
in
academic programs substantially focused on human rights issues, such as the
McCarthy Center for Public Policy & the Common Good, the Lane Center for
Catholic Social Thought, the International Studies and Latin American Studies
majors, and the minors in Legal Studies, Criminal Justice Studies, Peace &
Justice Studies, and Gender & Sexualities minors
(g) Student Groups – HRWG faculty work with student organizations
interested in human rights issues, such as the Amnesty International Club, the
Equal Justice Club, and the Peace & Justice Coalition
(h) Journals – Several HRWG faculty serve as writers and editors for the
international journal (housed at USF), Peace Review: A Journal of Social Justice,
and also for off-campus journals, such as Social Justice and The Fourth R (an
Amnesty International newsletter)
(i) Conferences – HRWG faculty have been very active in sponsoring
USF workshops, symposia and conferences on human rights issues, such as on immigration,
women and development, peace and justice studies, the war on terrorism, and
so forth
(j) Art & Performance – Some HRWG members use their art and dramatic
performances to highlight and explore human rights issues, including projects
in conjunction with local prisons and the United Nations
The HRWG works in conjunction with the Center for Law & Global Justice
in an effort to foster collaboration between law faculty and the School of Law
with other divisions of the University. The HRWG will be exploring ways to enhance
and expand its human rights work in the upcoming years.
For more information about the HRWG, please contact Professor Robert Elias,
Politics Department, USF, University Center 529, eliasr@usfca.edu,
415-422-6349
HRWG Members
Arts & Sciences
Marco Jacquemet (Communication)
Stephanie Vandrick (Communication)
Darrell Schramm (Communication)
Michael Stanfield (History)
Heather Hoag (History)
Bernadette Barker-Plummer (Media Studies)
Vamsee Juluri (Media Studies)
Susana Kaiser (Media Studies)
Dorothy Kidd (Media Studies)
Karen Bouwer (Modern Languages)
Pedro Lange-Churion (Modern Languages)
Jeff Paris (Philosophy)
Ron Sundstrom (Philosophy)
Rob Elias (Politics)
Stephen Zunes (Politics)
Annick Wibben (Politics)
Jay Gonzalez (Politics)
Cecilia Santos (Sociology)
Lois Lorentzen (Religious Studies)
David Batstone (Religious Studies)
Vijaya Nagarajan (Religious Studies)
Pamela Blotner (Visual & Performing Arts)
Robert Varea (Visual & Performing Arts)
Peter Novak (Visual & Performing Arts)
Sara Siskin (Visual & Performing Arts)
Richard Kamler (Visual & Performing Arts)
Ravinder Basra (Visual & Performing Arts)
Patrick Murphy (McCarthy Center for Public Policy & the Common Good)
Mike Duffy (Lane Center for Catholic Social Thought)
School of Education
Susan Katz
Shabnam Koirala
Emma Fuentes
Kevin Yonkers-Talz
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