Resources for Research and Instruction

One of the primary goals of the Committee for Human Rights is to encourage research and education on all aspects of human rights, from conceptual to applied. The Committee encourages colleagues to think, write and conduct research that touches on all areas of human rights, including women, genocide and indigenous peoples, and the mitigation of abuses. The purpose of publishing documentation pertaining to human rights is to educate other anthropologists as well as the public. Teaching courses related to this field in a university setting will also further the promotion of human rights awareness among students.

To assist our colleagues in achieving these goals, the Committee has compiled bibliographies focusing on several aspects of human rights and various course syllabi pertaining to human rights issues. Additional contributions of bibliographies and syllabi are welcome.

• Background
• Bibliographies
• Course Syllabi

Background

• The Rights of Indigenous Peoples: International Instruments
• Universal Declaration of Human Rights - United Nations

Bibliographies

• Afghan, Arab, Arab-American and Middle East Issues: A Bibliography, Robert K. Hitchcock, University of Nebraska, updated Sept 2002
• Children's Rights as Human Rights, Robert K Hitchcock, University of Nebraska, updated Sept 2002
• Conflict, Conflict Resolution and Conflict Management, Robert K Hitchcock, University of Nebraska, updated Sept 2002
• Environmental Justice and Human Rights, Robert K Hitchcock, University of Nebraska, updated Sept 2002
• Genocide, Ethnocide, Ecocide, with Special Reference to Indigenous Peoples, Robert K Hitchcock, University of Nebraska, updated Sept 2002
• Globalization, International Socioeconomic Development and Anthropology, Robert K Hitchcock, University of Nebraska, updated Sept 2002
• Hunger and Human Rights to Food: A Bibliography, Robert K. Hitchcock, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, updated Sept 2002
• Indigenous Peoples and Environmental Issues in India, Robert K Hitchcock, University of Nebraska, updated Sept 2002
• Indigenous Peoples and International Human Rights, Robert K Hitchcock, University of Nebraska, updated Sept 2002
• International Human Rights and Human Diversity, Robert K Hitchcock, University of Nebraska, updated Sept 2002
• The International Women's Human Rights Movement, Alyson Kozma, Amnesty International USA, updated Sept 2002
• Minorities and Minority Rights, Robert K Hitchcock, University of Nebraska, updated Sept 2002
• Refugees, Migration and Human Rights, Robert K Hitchcock, University of Nebraska, updated Sept 2002
• Repatriation of Human Remains, Forensic Anthropology, and Indigenous Peoples Biological Property Rights, Robert K Hitchcock, University of Nebraska, updated Sept 2002
• Women's Rights and Women, Environment, and Development, Robert Hitchcock, University of Nebraska, updated Sept 2002
• Women's Rights as Human Rights, Robert K Hitchcock, University of Nebraska, updated Sept 2002

Course Syllabi

• Human Rights and Indigenous Peoples, Jeffrey D Anderson, Colby College, Fall 2002
• Questions, Issues, and Dilemmas: Teaching Human Rights in Anthropology Departments George N. Appell
• Ethnic Cleansing and Genocide Rye Barcott, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
• Research Seminar on Global Gay Rights Issues, Ralph Bolton, Pomona College, Fall 2000
• Universal Human Rights in Theory and Practice, Jack Donnelly, University of Connecticut, Fall 2002
• Anthropology and Human Rights, Matthew Engelke, Department of Anthropology, London School of Economics, Michaelmas Term 2003
• Human Rights in Africa: Historical and Anthropological Perspectives, Matthew Engelke, Kenyon College, Spring 2002
• Women and Militarization, Cynthia Enloe, Clark University, Fall 2002
• International Human Rights, David P Forsythe, University of Nebraska, Spring 2002
• Power and Violence in Central America and Southern Mexico, Linda Green, University of Arizona, Fall 2002
• Workshop: "Cultural Relativism and Universal Human Rights" Sarah Hautzinger, Colorado College
• Conflict and Conflict Resolution, Robert K Hitchcock, University of Nebraska, Spring 2002
• Human Rights, Environment, and Development, Robert K Hitchcock, University of Nebraska, Fall 2002
• Human Rights and Health, Vincent Iacopino and Harvey Weinstein, University of California, Berkeley, Spring 2002

• Anthropology of Human Rights, Dr. Patricia Mathews-Salazar, City University of New York, Fall 2002

• Trauma, Human Rights and Reconciliation I Judith M. Maxwell, Tulane University, Jillandra Rovaris, Tulane University, John Moran, Tulane University, and Steve Wiegand, Tulane University
• Food, Nutrition and Human Rights, Ellen Messer, Tufts University, Fall 2002
• Rights-based Development, Ellen Messer, Brandeis University, Fall 2002
• Critical Issues in International Women's Health, Anne Firth Murray, Stanford University, Fall 2002
• Human Rights and Anthropology, Carole Nagengast, University of New Mexico, Spring 2002
• History and Human Rights: Capitalism, Colonialism, and Culture, Anupama Rao, Columbia University, Fall 2002
• Power and Resistance: Relatives of the Disappeared and the Struggle for Human Rights in Latin America Jennifer Schirmer, Harvard Divinity School, Spring 1996
• Issues in Women's International Human Rights and International Violence Against Women, Vanessa von Struensee, Ternopil Academy of National Economy, Ukraine, Spring 2002
• Anthropology 640: Urban Poverty Brett Williams, American University
• Collective Rights and Cultural Politics, Professor Richard A Wilson, University of Connecticut, Spring 2004
• Truth, Reconciliation and Justice in Democratizing Countries, Professor Richard A Wilson, University of Connecticut, Autumn 2003

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