Human Rights Quarterly

Morten Koch Andersen is a researcher at DIGNITY-Danish Institute Against Torture. He worked as project manager on rehabilitation and prevention interventions in West Africa, Bangladesh and Libya before entering into research. His research interests include politics, corruption, and torture. He has published on political mobilization, torture and corruption.

Catherine Buerger is a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Connecticut. She is also the Managing Editor of the Journal of Human Rights and an Editor of the Teaching Human Rights Database. She holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Connecticut, and her research explores the relationship between participation in urban human rights campaigns and political subjectivity.

Roland Burke is a senior lecturer in history at La Trobe University, and author of Decolonization and the Evolution of International Human Rights (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010). His research focuses on human rights and internationalism and has been published widely across numerous journals. Burke's current project, a monograph on the changing meanings of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in the 1960s and 70s, will be completed in the near future.

Ulrike Capdepón, Institute of Latin American Studies (ILAS), GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies, Hamburg, currently DAAD Research Scholar at the Institute for the Study of Human Rights (ISHR), Columbia University, New York.

Catrine Christiansen is an independent researcher with focus on East Africa. She has extensive experience with human rights based approaches to health services and HIV/AIDS; torture documentation, violence prevention, land disputes, police reform, and religion.

Priscilla Claeys, Senior Research Fellow, Food Sovereignty, Human Rights and Resilience. Centre for Agroecology, Water, and Resilience, Coventry University.

Silvia Croydon is a Fellow at the Hakubi Centre for Advanced Research and an Assistant Professor at the Graduate School of Law at Kyoto University. Prior to this, she undertook a two-year Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Post-doctoral Research Fellowship at the University of Tokyo's Graduate School of Law and Politics, during which she focused on criminal justice in Japan and East Asia. Her doctorate, obtained in 2010 from the University of Oxford, dealt with Japan's pre-charge police detention system. Lea David is currently the Fulbright-Rabin postdoctoral fellow at Pittsburgh University, Anthropology Department, where she analyzes various forms of nationalism produced through memory politics and human rights in the Former Yugoslav states as well as in Israel and Palestine. Dr. David's work examines the impact that the international human rights regime has on nationalist ideologies. She questions how [End Page 484] the transition to democracy is changing the content of collective memory in conflict and post conflict settings and is producing new categories and social realities on the ground. Her main research interests cover the Holocaust/Genocide nexus; the interconnectedness of nationalism, human rights and memory politics; and conflict and peace studies. She has lectured widely on comparative memory studies relating to the conflict in the Former Yugoslav countries and in Israel/Palestine; human rights and transitional justice; and the connections between the Holocaust and genocide discourses at various Israeli Universities and Colleges.

Lea David is currently the Fulbright-Rabin postdoctoral fellow at Pittsburgh University, Anthropology Department, where she analyzes various forms of nationalism produced through memory politics and human rights in the Former Yugoslav states as well as in Israel and Palestine. Dr. David's work examines the impact that the international human rights regime has on nationalist ideologies. She questions how the transition to democracy is changing the content of collective memory in conflict and post conflict settings and is producing new categories and social realities on the ground. Her main research interests cover the Holocaust/Genocide nexus; the interconnectedness of nationalism, human rights, and memory politics; and conflict and peace studies. She has lectured widely on comparative memory studies relating to the conflict in the Former Yugoslav countries and in Israel/Palestine; human rights and transitional justice; and the connections between the Holocaust and genocide discourses at various Israeli Universities and Colleges.

Andrew Fagan is Director of Postgraduate Studies in the Human Rights Centre and School of Law at the University of Essex (UK). His research focuses upon the challenges which identity rights...