Profiles in "Violence, Conflict and Human Rights" Expertise Area

  • Wright's primary research interests include international conflict and security, civil conflict, state repression and human rights, and international international peacekeeping.
  • Rothenberg is the co-director of the Future Security Initiative and professor of practice, working on human rights, international law, and conflict.
  • Kubiak a retired professor of practice at the Future Security Initiative at ASU. He is a retired Air Force colonel having served more than 26 years on active duty.
  • Joslin's interdisciplinary research on African literature and film combine aesthetic theories of representation and socio-cultural interpretations of texts in order to reimagine global discourses within a humanistic framework.
  • Brown is the director of ASU’s Melikian Center. His research and teaching focus on the Western Balkans in global context.
  • Dr. Wachter's goal is to generate applied research for local, national, and international practitioners and policy makers to alleviate the psychosocial consequences of forced migration and violence against women.
  • Medical anthropologist studying how science and tech shape justice, migration, and surveillance in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands.
  • Oranli's research and teaching interests include social and political philosophy, Continental philosophy, theories of evil, postcolonial theory, genocide studies, critical philosophy of race, and feminist ethics.