Associate Professor of History, Department of History, University of Connecticut

EMMA GILLIGAN

Current

Associate Professor of History, Department of History, University of Connecticut

Director, Human Rights Institute, University of Connecticut

Coi expert for Russia, Fahamu Refugee Programme, Oxford UK

PUBLICATIONS

Monographs

Gilligan, E. L. Terror in Chechnya: Russia and the Tragedy of Civilians in War

(Princeton University Press, 2010) Institute for the Study of Genocide Book Award, 2011. (Reviews: Times Literary Supplement, August, 2011, Human Rights Quarterly, 2012, Central European Journal of International and Security Studies, 2011, Irish Times, 2010, Russian Review, 2011,)

Gilligan, E.L. Defending Human Rights in Russia: Sergei Kovalyov, Dissident and Human Rights Commissioner 1969-2003 (United Kingdom: Routledge, 2004) (Reviews: The New York Review of Books, January 14, 2005, The Moscow Times, April 1, 2005, The Russian Review, May 2006, Slavic Review, June 2005, Sehepunkte 7 (2007), Nr. 9

Articles

Gilligan, E. L, ‘The Origins and Evolution of Violent Discourse in the Russo-Chechen Wars,’ under review, Europe-Asia Studies

Gilligan, E. L, ‘Human Rights and Corruption in Russia: Does the Magnitsky Act Matter?’ under review, Human Rights Quarterly

Gilligan, E. L ‘Chechnya and the Paradox of 9/11’ in States of War in the ‘War on Terrorism’ (Routledge, United Kingdom, 2014)

Gilligan, E. L “Redefining Humanitarianism: The Historical Challenge of R2P,” Journal of Human Rights, Volume 12, Issue 1, 2013

Gilligan, E. L “The Human Rights Ombudsman in Russia: The Evolution of Horizontal Accountability,” Human Rights Quarterly, Volume 32, Number 3, August 2010, pp. 575-600

Gilligan, E. L “The Story of Chechnya,” Journal of Human Rights, Vol 8, Number 4, 2009 pp 429-439

Gilligan, E. L. SBS World Guide. Entries; Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan and Kyrgyzstan (Sydney: Hardie Grant Books, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006).

Book Reviews

Gilligan, E. L. The Chechen Struggle: Independence Won and Lost (Palgrave, New York, 2011) by Ilyas Akhmadov, Russian Review, Vol. 12 No. 4, 2011

Gilligan, E. L. Book Review, “Reprising Diderot for Human Rights,” Human Rights Quarterly, Vol. 32, No. 4 2010

Gilligan, E. L. Book Review, Chechnya: From Nationalism to Jihad, Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007 by James Hughes, Political Science Quarterly Volume 124, Issue 1, Spring (2009)

Gilligan, E.L. Book Review, Russia’s Islamic Threat, (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007) Demokratizatsiya: The Journal of Post-Soviet Democratization, Vol. 17 No. 1, Winter (2009)

Gilligan, E. L. Book Review Conscience, Dissent and Reform in Soviet Russia, (London: Routledge, 2005) Slavic Review Vol. 65, No. 4, Winter (2006)

Gilligan, E.L. Book Review Human Rights in Eastern Europe: Law in its Social

Setting in Australian Slavonic & East European Studies Vol 10, Number 1, 1996.

Editorials

Gilligan, E. L. “Challenging the International Criminal Court over al-Bashir,” Human Rights and Human Welfare Roundtable: December, 2009. Online journal at http://www.du.edu/korbel/hrhw/roundtable/index.html

Gilligan, E. L. “Proportional to Life” Human Rights and Human Welfare Roundtable, February, 2009. Online journal at http://www.du.edu/korbel/hrhw/roundtable/index.html

Gilligan, E. L. “Seeking Justice in Europe – Chechens at the European Court of Human Rights,” The Chicago Tribune September, (2005)

Gilligan, E. L. “Russia and Chechnya,” International Herald Tribune, March 9 (2005)

Gilligan, E. L. “Why there is No Peace in Chechnya,” The Chicago Tribune,

September 5, (2004)

Gilligan, E. L. “Human Rights in an Age of Terrorism?” The Chicago Tribune, November 4, (2004)

Gilligan, E. L. Editorials, The Age, (2002), New Europe; Global Independent Weekly, (1999) The Melbournian (1995).

SELECT CONFERENCE/INVITED PAPERS

Conference Participant: Erasmus University, Rotterdam, Netherlands, “The Chechnya Memory Project: Internet as Historical Archive” June, 2013

Invited: Stanford University, “Russia, Counter-insurgency, and the Paradox of Humanitarian aid,” Humanities Center “Humanitarian Intervention in the Middle East, Central Asia and the North Caucasus” February, 2013

Invited: “Chechnya – Logic of Violence and Experience of War” (Tchétchénie – Logiques de violence et expérience de guerre Center of Russian, Caucasian and Central European Worlds Studies (le Centre d’etude des mondes russe, caucasien et centre-européen – CERCEC, CNRS/EHESS), Paris, October 2012

Invited: Yale Law School, “Language and Violence in the Wars in Chechnya,” April 2012

Invited: Beloit College, Weissberg Chair in Human Rights Conference, March 2012 “Terror in Chechnya: Russia and the Tragedy of Civilians in War”

Invited for book award presentation: “Estemirova and Politkovskaya: the Struggle for Rights in Chechnya,” Institute for the Study of Genocide, Cardoza Law School, New York, October 2011

Invited: Association for the Study of Nationalities, Columbia University, New York

“Terror in Chechnya: Russia and the Tragedy of Civilians in War” April 16, 2010.

Discussant: AAASS: American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Boston, “Writing and Reading Violated Lives: Towards a History of Human Rights in Russia”

Discussant: Human Rights Institute, James Sweeney, “Margins of Appreciation: Cultural Relativity and the European Court of Human Rights in the Post-Cold War Era”. March 25, 2009

Invited: Humanities Institute, UCHI Faculty Luncheon Talk, University Of Connecticut, “War Crimes in Chechnya.” February 23, 2009.

Invited Public Lecture: “War Crimes in Chechnya,” Department of History, Department of Government and Law, Lafayette College, PA March 10, 2008

Invited: “Collective Punishment in Chechnya,” Human Rights and History Workshop, Department of History, University of Chicago, February 1-2, 2007

Presentation: “Counter Terrorism in Chechnya: Toward a Methodology of the Zachistka?” Warfare and Human Rights Panel with M. Geyer (Chicago) E. Kreike (Princeton), A. Rabinbach (Princeton) E. Weitz (Minnesota). American Historical Association, Atlanta, Georgia, January 4, 2007

Presentation: “Historicizing the ‘Zachistka’,” Workshop Panel on Wars in Chechnya, Third Millennium Foundation, New York November 29, 2006

Presentation: “Researching and Writing in Moscow,” Women’s Studies Spotlight, University of Connecticut, November 27, 2006

Presentation: “Current Trends in Soviet Archival Research,” University of Connecticut, Early College Experience, University of Connecticut, November 8, 2006

Presentation: “Writing the History of the Soviet Human Rights,” University of Connecticut, Department of History, November 18, 2005

Presentation: “War Crimes and Terror in Chechnya,” University of Chicago, Human Rights Workshop, Center for International Studies, Chicago, IL. October 24, 2005

Presentation: “Defending Human Rights in Russia,” University of Chicago, Department of History, Chicago, IL, November 2003

Public Lecture: “The History of the Soviet Human Rights Movement and the Collapse of the Soviet Union.” University of Melbourne, Department of History, Australia, May 2002

Presentation: “Russia’s first Human Rights Commissioner: Origins and Evolution.” European History Conference, University of Melbourne, Australia, May 1999

Presentation: “The Building of St Petersburg: Peter the Great and Slave Labor,” Department of Russian and Germanic Studies, University of Melbourne, Australia, September 1995.

CONSULTATION WORK

Russian Asylum Cases to the US, 2009, 2010 (Hughes Hubbard and Reed LLP, Grinberg and Segal)

Consultant to Federal Public Defender, Case of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 2014 (Federal Public Defender)

Country of Origin Information Expert, Fahamu Refugee Programme, Oxford UK

RADIO/TELEVISION

Television Interview; MSNBN, Chris Hays Show, April 19, 2013, April 22, 2013

Radio Interview: NPR, Boston Public Radio, April 19, 2013

Radio Interview, Radio Free Europe, “Exhuming the Graves in Chechnya” April 24, 2013

Radio Interview: CNBC International, April 19, 2013

Television Interview: Channel 8, CPTV, April 19, 2013

Radio Interview: NPR Philadelphia, WHYY,Radio Times

Radio Interview: Voice of Russia, Washington D.C, Radio interview: April 19, 2013

Telephone Interview: Hartford Courant, CT, telephone interview: April 19, 2013

Telephone Interview, Republican – American, CT, Telephone interview: April 19, 2013

Telephone Interview, Boston Herald, Telephone Interview: April 20, 2013

Radio Interview, Radio Free Europe, Radio Interview: April 22, 2013: June, 2008

Television Interview: Al Jazeera English, (TV) Riz Khan Show, “Chechnya’s Forgotten War” October, 2011

Radio Interview: “War Crimes in Chechnya,” Radio Free Europe, Radio Liberty, North Caucasus Program, March 14, 2008

Radio Interview: “Understanding the Conflict in Chechnya,” The Chicago Tribune, Video Interview: October 2004

Radio Interview: “Human Rights and the Conflict in Chechnya,” Interview on Vantage Point, Radio WTMX-FM (101.9): October 2004

AWARDS

Institute for the Study of Genocide 2011 Best Book Award

University of Connecticut Humanities Fellowship, 2010-2011

Human Rights Institute Workshop Grant, “Workshop on Testimony, Oral History and Human Rights Documentation” 2010-2011 ($10,000)

Large Grant, University of Connecticut Research Foundation, July 2009 ($10,000)

Human Rights Institute Workshop Grant, October 2008 ($15,000)

Small Grant, University of Connecticut Research Foundation, October 2008

Small Grant, University of Connecticut Research Foundation, May 2008

Research Grant, Human Rights Institute, 2008

Travel Grant, Human Rights Institute, 2007

Publications Grant, Melbourne Research and Innovation Office 2003

Publications Grant for Research Book, Centre for European Research (CERC) 2003

Department of Political Science Research Award 1998

Department of Political Science Research Award 1999

Melbourne University Postgraduate Scholarship 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998

Melbourne University Language Scholarship 1993

DEPARTMENT SERVICE

Director, Human Rights Institute: 2012-

Director, Chechnya Memory Project (Human Rights Institute and the Dodd Research Center)

Associate Director, Human Rights Institute: 2010-2011

University Strategic Vision Committee: 2013-

CLAS: Deans Advisory Committee: 2011-

Global Programs Advisory Committee: 2011-2012

Job Search Committee, Position in History and Human Rights: Spring 2012

Job Search Committee, Position in political science and human rights institute: Fall 2010

Job Search Committee, Position in Latin American Studies: Spring 2010

Graduate Admissions Committee: Spring 2008, Spring 2010

Human Rights Major Committee, Human Rights Institute: 2008-2009, 2009-2010

Gladstein Human Rights Committee, Human Rights Institute: 2006 –

Masters Examination Committee: Spring 2008, Spring 2010, 2012

Phd Examination Committee: 2011-2012, 2013

Organizer and convener: Reading Group “History, Humanitarianism and Human Rights”: 2009-2012, 2012-2013. Participant in Human Rights Institute Reading Groups: 1. Narratives of Suffering. 2. Gender and Humanitarianism (co-organizer): 2009 –

Chair’s Advisory Committee: 2006-2007, 2008-2009

Publicity and Development Committee: 2008-2009, Department of History

Phd Committee 2008-2010: Candidate: Katherine Hawkins from Anthropology (ABD)

Honors Students and Independent Studies: 2007-2013 (8 students)

History Department: Organized visit of Professor Gary J. Bass to speak on “Freedom’s Battle: the Origins of Humanitarian Intervention.” March, 2009

Human Rights Institute: Organized speaker Professor Lincoln Mitchell of Columbia University to visit the University of Connecticut to lecture on the crisis in South Ossetia, September 11, 2008

LANGUAGES

Russian. Advanced reading, speaking. Intermediate writing.

French, intermediate reading

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