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Human Rights

Affiliated Faculty

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Full-time Faculty

Julie Stone Peters

H. Gordon Garbedian Professor of English and Comparative Literature; Director of Academic Careers Advising; Co-Chair, PhD in Theater and Performance

Research Interests

Law and Humanities
Human Rights
Film, Media, and Visual Studies
Drama, Theatre, and Performance Studies
Cultural and Intellectual History
Popular Culture
Philosophy, Aesthetics, History of Ideas, and Sociology of Knowledge
Comparative Literature
Ancient/Medieval
Renaissance / Early Modern
Restoration and 18th Century
20th and 21st Century Modernism and Postmodernism
photo of Joseph R. Slaughter
photo of Joseph R. Slaughter
Full-time Faculty

Joseph R. Slaughter

Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature; Executive Director of the Institute for the Study of Human Rights

Research Interests

Comparative Literature
African, Latin American, and Third-World Literatures
Postcolonialism
Narrative and Rhetorical Theory
The Global South
Globalization
Modernity
Critical and Narrative Theory
Human Rights
Intellectual Property
Law and Literature
Law and Humanities
Postcolonial and Global South
Africa
20th and 21st Century

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August 30, 2022

Joseph Slaughter Appointed Director of the Institute for the Study of Human Rights

ISHR is committed to providing excellent human rights education to Columbia students and offering its expertise in capacity building to future leaders.

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