We regularly bring distinguished human rights scholars and practitioners to campus for one quarter to teach a seminar and offer a series of public lectures, thus advancing the Center’s goal of bringing theory and practice of human rights into productive and creative conversation. This visiting professorship is made possible by a gift from Richard and Ann Pozen.

Spring 2025

Suketu Mehta Headshot

Suketu Mehta

Suketu Mehta is the New York-based author of Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found, which won the Kiriyama Prize and the Hutch Crossword Award, and was a finalist for the 2005 Pulitzer Prize, the Lettre Ulysses Prize, the BBC4 Samuel Johnson Prize, and the Guardian First Book Award. He has won the Whiting Writers’ Award, the O. Henry Prize, and a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship for his fiction. Mehta’s work has been published in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, National Geographic, Granta, Harper’s Magazine, Time, and Newsweek, and has been featured on NPR’s ‘Fresh Air’

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Louise Mallinder

Spring 2024
Professor, Queen's University Belfast; Deputy Director, The Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice
Zoe Butt

Zoe Butt

Spring 2023
Curator and Writer; Founder, in-tangible institute
Jasbir Puar

Jasbir Puar

Spring 2022
Professor, Department of Women’s and Gender Studies, Rutgers University
Teng Biao

Teng Biao

Winter 2022
Grove Human Rights Scholar, Hunter College
Dean Spade

Dean Spade

Autumn 2019
Associate Professor, Seattle University School of Law
Carol Anderson

Carol Anderson

Spring 2019
Charles Howard Candler Professor of African American Studies, Emory University
Visiting Artists 2017

Visiting Artists

Spring 2017
Lola Aria, Jelili Atiku, Tania Bruguera, Sandi Hilal, Carlos Javier Ortiz, Alessandro Petti, and Laurie Jo Reynolds
Judge Lech Garlicki

Judge Lech Garlicki

Autumn 2016
Professor of Law, Warsaw University
Kevin Bales

Kevin Bales

Autumn 2015
Professor of Contemporary Slavery, School of Politics and International Relations, University of Nottingham
Monica McWilliams

Monica McWilliams

Spring 2015
Emeritus Professor, Transitional Justice Institute, Ulster University
Eric Stover

Eric Stover

Autumn 2014
Faculty Director of the Human Rights Center and Adjunct Professor of Law and Public Health, University of California at Berkeley
Dr. William F. Schulz

William F. Schulz

Spring 2013
President and CEO, Unitarian Universalist Service Committee
Elizabeth Borgwardt

Elizabeth Borgwardt

Spring 2012
Associate Professor of Human Rights History and International Law, Washington University in St. Louis
Rodolfo Stavenhagen

Rodolfo Stavenhagen

Spring 2011
Professor of Sociology, Colegio de Mexico
Justice Albie Sachs

Justice Albie Sachs

Winter 2010
Judge (Retired), Constitutional Court of South Africa