Heather Smith-Cannoy
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Phone: 602-543-5678
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Mail code: 3051Campus: West
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Heather Smith-Cannoy is a professor of political science and social justice and human rights at Arizona State University. She is the Director of the School of Social and Behavioral Sciences. At ASU she previously served as inaugural Director of ASU’s Global Human Rights Hub. She also served as the undergraduate degree program liaison for Social Justice and Human Rights. She has published four books on human rights, international law, and Sex Trafficking. Her most recent book is a co-edited volume, Human Rights on the Edge: The Future of International Human Rights Law and Practice. She has published 15 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters on sex trafficking, human rights treaties, and the International Criminal Court. She is an Associate Editor with Political Research Quarterly. Her work has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, and the American Philosophical Society.
- Ph.D. Department of Political Science, University of California-San Diego 2007
- M.A. Department of Political Science, University of California-San Diego 2004
- B.A. (Magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa), Department of Political Science, University of California-Irvine 2000
My research interests include: human rights, women's rights, international law, sex trafficking, migration and statelessness.
BOOKS
Smith-Cannoy, Heather and Tricia Redeker Hepner, Human Rights on the Edge: The Future of International Human Rights Law and Practice, 2023 (Routledge).
Smith-Cannoy, Heather, Charles Anthony Smith and Patricia Rodda, 2022, Sex Trafficking and Human Rights: The Status of Women and State Responses (Georgetown University Press).
Heather Smith-Cannoy (ed.) Emerging Threats to Human Rights: Resources, Violence, and Deprivation of Citizenship. Philadelphia: Temple University Press (2019).
Heather Smith-Cannoy, Insincere Commitments: Human Rights Treaties, Abusive States and Citizen Activism. Washington D.C.: Georgetown University Press (2012).
PEER REVIEWED ARTICLES & BOOK CHAPTERS
Rodda, Patricia and Heather Smith-Cannoy, 2024, The Human Rights of Sex Trafficking Survivors: Trends and Challenges in American Vacatur Laws. Part of an invited contribution on sex trafficking for the journal Societies. https://doi.org/10.3390/soc14020029
Christopher Tait, Abtin Parnia, Nishan Zewge-Abubaker, Wendy Wong, Heather Smith-Cannoy, Arjumand Siddiqi, “Did the Convention on the Rights of the Child Lead to Reductions in Child Mortality?” BMC Public Health (forthcoming May 2020).
Heather Smith-Cannoy, Wendy Wong, Arjumand Siddiqi, Christopher Tait, and Abtin Parnia “When Everyone Agrees: Human Rights Norms on Women & Children and Their Effects on Health” The International Journal of Human Rights (April 2020). https://doi.org/10.1080/13642987.2020.1743975
Arjumand Siddiqi, Wendy Wong, Heather Smith-Cannoy, Christopher Tait and Nishan Zewge-Abubaker, “Can the Health Effects of Widely-Held Societal Norms be Evaluated? An Analysis of the UN-CEDAW Convention” BMC Public Health 79, 9 (2019): 827-33.
Heather Smith-Cannoy, “Deprivation of Citizenship: An Examination of the Rohingya Refugee Crisis”, in Emerging Threats to Human Rights (Temple University Press, 2019).
Heather Smith-Cannoy, “Sex Trafficking and International Law” in International Human Rights of Women, Niema Reilly (ed.) (Springer Press, 2018).
Heather Smith-Cannoy, “Mainstreaming Human Rights: Assessing the Impact of Sixty Years of International Human Rights Law” in The Sage Handbook of Human Rights, Anja Mihr and Mark Gibney (eds.) (Los Angeles: Sage Press, 2014).
Heather Smith-Cannoy and Charles Anthony Smith, “Human Trafficking and International Cheap Talk: The Dutch Government and the Island Territories (with Charles Anthony Smith) in Globalizing Human Rights: Emerging Issues and Approaches, Charles Anthony Smith (ed) (New York: Routledge Press, 2013.)
Heather Smith-Cannoy, “Defending Democracy? Assessing the OAS’s 2002 Diplomatic Intervention in Haiti” Civil Wars 14, 3 (2012): 431-450.
Heather Smith-Cannoy and Charles Anthony Smith, “Human Trafficking and International Cheap Talk: The Dutch Government and the Island Territories” The Journal of Human Rights 11, 1 (2012): 51-65.
Heather M. Smith, “Human Trafficking: Trends, Challenges, and the Limitations of International Law” Human Rights Review 12, 3 (2011): 271-286.
Charles Anthony Smith and Heather M. Smith, “Human Trafficking: The Unintended Effects of United Nations Intervention” International Political Science Review 32, 2 (2011): 139-60.
Heather M. Smith, “The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly: Assessing the Impact of the OAS and the UN on Human Trafficking in Haiti” in From Human Trafficking to Human Rights: Rethinking Contemporary Slavery, Alison Brysk and Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick (eds.) (Philadelphia: The University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011).
Charles Anthony Smith and Heather M. Smith, “Embedded Realpolitik? Re-Evaluating US Opposition to the International Criminal Court,” in Governance, Order and the International Criminal Court: Between Realpolitik and a Cosmopolitan Court, Steven Roach (ed.) (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009).
Charles Anthony Smith and Heather M. Smith, “The Electoral Dis-Connection: Institutional Barriers to US Support for the International Criminal Court,” The Eyes on The International Criminal Court 3,1 (2006).
Courses
2025 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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JHR 593 | Applied Project |
JHR 599 | Thesis |
JHR 590 | Reading and Conference |
JHR 592 | Research |
JHR 493 | Honors Thesis |
JHR 305 | Theory Soc Justice Human Rts |
2024 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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JHR 592 | Research |
JHR 599 | Thesis |
JHR 492 | Honors Directed Study |
2024 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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JHR 593 | Applied Project |
JHR 599 | Thesis |
JHR 590 | Reading and Conference |
JHR 592 | Research |
JHR 493 | Honors Thesis |
2023 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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JHR 599 | Thesis |
JHR 492 | Honors Directed Study |
2023 Summer
Course Number | Course Title |
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JHR 499 | Individualized Instruction |
2023 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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JHR 593 | Applied Project |
JHR 599 | Thesis |
JHR 590 | Reading and Conference |
JHR 592 | Research |
JHR 305 | Theory Soc Justice Human Rts |
JHR 493 | Honors Thesis |
JHR 305 | Theory Soc Justice Human Rts |
2022 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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JHR 584 | Internship |
JHR 492 | Honors Directed Study |
2022 Summer
Course Number | Course Title |
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JHR 584 | Internship |
2022 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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JHR 593 | Applied Project |
JHR 599 | Thesis |
JHR 590 | Reading and Conference |
JHR 592 | Research |
JHR 305 | Theory Soc Justice Human Rts |
JHR 493 | Honors Thesis |
JHR 584 | Internship |
2021 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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JHR 598 | Special Topics |
JHR 584 | Internship |
JHR 492 | Honors Directed Study |
JHR 598 | Special Topics |
2021 Summer
Course Number | Course Title |
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JHR 584 | Internship |
2021 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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JHR 598 | Special Topics |
JHR 305 | Theory Soc Justice Human Rts |
2020 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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POS 361 | American Foreign Policy |
2020 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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JHR 305 | Theory Soc Justice Human Rts |
POS 494 | Special Topics |
JHR 598 | Special Topics |
MAS 598 | Special Topics |
2019 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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JHR 499 | Individualized Instruction |