Professor ALISON BRYSK
2121 Social Science and Media Studies Building
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
www.alisonbrysk.org
Mellichamp Chair in Global Governance, Global and International Studies, University of California Santa Barbara, 2010--current.
Professor, Political Science, University Of California Irvine: 1997-2010.
Visiting Assistant Professor, Political Science; Visiting Scholar, Latin American Studies, Stanford University, 1996-97.
Assistant Professor, Department of Politics, Pomona College, 1992-95.
Assistant Professor, Political Science, University of New Mexico, 1990-92.
EDUCATION
Ph.D. in Political Science, Stanford University, 1990.
Master's Degree in Political Science, Stanford University, 1985.
Bachelor's Degree in Philosophy cum laude, Pomona College, 1981.
INTERNATIONAL ACADEMIC POSITIONS:
Visiting Professor, Human Rights Training Program for Latin American Indigenous Leaders, Universidad de Deusto/U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, Bilbao, Spain (Summer 2012).
Fulbright Senior Scholar, Ravenshaw University, Cuttack, India (Summer 2011).
Visiting Professor, Sciences Po Aix-en-Provence, France (March 2010, March 2013).
Fulbright Distinguished Visiting Chair in Global Governance, Centre for International Governance Innovation, Canada (Summer 2007).
Visiting Scholar, University of South Africa, Pretoria (October 2006).
Visiting Scholar, Leiden University, Netherlands (Summer 2006).
Visiting Scholar, United Nations University, Tokyo, Japan (April 2006).
Visiting Professor, Universitat Internacional De Catalunya, Spain (December 2005).
Visiting Professor, Lund University, Sweden (Summer 2004).
Visiting Scholar, FLACSO, Quito, Ecuador (1995).
Visiting Researcher, CEDES, Buenos Aires, Argentina (1988).
PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS:
Forthcoming, Speaking Rights to Power: Constructing Political Will. Oxford University Press, 2013.
Editor, The Politics of the Globalization of Law. Routledge Press, 2013.
Co-editor, From Human Trafficking to Human Rights, with Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012.
Global Good Samaritans: Human rights as foreign policy, Oxford University Press, 2009.
revised Spanish edition: De la tribu al aldea global, Barcelona, Spain: Ediciones Bellaterra, 2009.
Co-editor, National Insecurity and Human Rights: Democracies Debate Counter-terrorism, with Gershon Shafir, University of California Press, 2007.
Human Rights and Private Wrongs, Routledge Press, 2005.
Co-editor, People Out of Place: Globalization and the Citizenship Gap, with Gershon Shafir, Routledge Press, 2004.
Editor. Globalization and Human Rights, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2002.
From Tribal Village to Global Village: Indian Rights and International Relations in Latin America, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2000.
The Politics of Human Rights in Argentina, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1994.
SELECTED ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS:
“Why We Care,” in Mark Goodale (ed.), Human Rights at the Crossroads, Oxford University Press, 2013.
"Changing hearts and minds: sexual politics and human rights," in Thomas Risse, Steve Ropp, and Kathryn Sikkink (eds.) The Persistent Power of Human Rights: From Commitment to Compliance, Cambridge University Press, 2013.
“The Politics of Moral Panic: Norms and National Insecurity,” in Gershon Shafir (ed.), How the War on Terror Became a Moral Panic, Routledge Press, 2013.
“National Insecurity and the Citizenship Gap in Latin America,” in Luis Roniger, Mario Sznajder and Carlos Forment (ed.), Shifting Frontiers of Citizenship, Brill Academic Press, 2013.
“The Village Voice: Indigenous Peoples Contest Globalization in Bolivia,” with Natasha Bennett, Brown Journal of World Affairs, Spring 2012.
“Reframing Trafficking: Power, Profit, and Prostitution in India,” with Aditee Maskey, Global Dialogues, Spring 2012.
“Tribal Rights in Global Perspective,” Indian Journal of Public Administration, Spring 2012.
“The Globalization of Law: Implications for the Fulfillment of Human Rights,” with Arturo Jimenez, Journal of Human Rights (special issue), Spring 2012.
“Human Rights Movements,” Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social Movements, 2011.
“Response: The Politics of Human Rights in Argentina,” in James Jasper (ed.) Contention in Context, Stanford University Press, 2011.
"International Human Rights," International Encyclopedia of Political Science, Sage Press, Fall 2011.
“Sex as slavery? Human trafficking,” Human Rights Review 182, Fall 2010.
"How to Think Globally Without Losing Your Mind" in Raymond Rocco and Fernando Garcia Selgas (eds.), Transnationalism, Editorial Complutense, 2010.
"My Brother's Keeper? Inter-Ethnic Solidarity and Human Rights," with Daniel Wehrenfennig, Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, Spring 2010.
"Beyond Framing and Shaming: Human Trafficking, Human Security, and the International Human Rights Regime," Journal of Human Security, Fall 2009.
"When words fail: communicative action and human rights in Colombia," Colombia Internacional, No. 69, Spring 2009.
"New Rights for Private Wrongs: Female Genital Mutilation and Global Framing Dialogues," with Madeline Baer, in Clifford Bob (ed.), The International Struggle for New Human Rights, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008.
”Democratic Reform and Injustice in Latin America,” Whitehead Journal of Diplomacy, Winter/Spring 2008.
"Costa Rica," Encyclopedia of Human Rights--winner of the American Library Association's 2010 Dartmouth Medal, Oxford University Press, 2008.
“Making Values Make Sense: The Social Construction Of Human Rights Foreign Policy,” Journal For Human Rights [Zeitschrift Für Menschenrechte], Volume 2, 2007.
“Globalización y Pueblos Indígenas: El rol de la sociedad civil internacional en el Siglo XXI,” en Salvador Martì y Puig (editor) Pueblos Indígenas y Polìtica en Amèrica Latina, Barcelona: CIDOB, 2007.
Co-author. “The Globalization of Rights: From Citizenship to Human Rights,” with Gershon Shafir, Citizenship Studies, Special Issue on Human Rights and Citizenship Rights, Volume 10, Issue 3, 2006.
“Global Good Samaritans?: Costa Rica’s Human Rights Foreign Policy,” Global Governance, vol. 11, no. 3, Summer 2005.
“Regional Identities, Regional Institutions, and Human Rights,” Global Law Review, Institute Of Law, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, 2005.
“Two Cheers For Global Civil Society,” [book review essay], Social Movement Studies , Vol. 4, No. 1, 95-103, May 2005.
“Children Across Borders: Patriarchy, Property, or Persons?” in People Out of Place, ed. Alison Brysk and Gershon Shafir, Routledge Press, 2004.
“From Civil Society to Collective Action: The Politics of Religion in Ecuador,” in Indigenous Peoples and Religion in Latin America, ed. Edward Cleary and Tim Steigenga, Rutgers University Press, 2004.
“Recovering From State Terror: The Morning After in Latin America,” [Review essay], Latin American Research Review, Vol.38, No.1, March 2003.
Co-author. “After Empire: European Identities and Post-Colonial Families of Nations,” with Craig Parsons and Wayne Sandholtz, European Journal of International Relations, Vol.8, No.2, June 2002.
"Indian Market: The Ethnic Face of Adjustment in Ecuador," in Development Assistance and Ethnic Conflict, eds. Milton Esman and Ronald Herring, MIT Press, 2001.
“Democratizing Civil Society in Latin America,” Journal of Democracy, Vol. 11, No.3, July 2000, 151-165.
“Globalization: The Double-Edged Sword,” Report on the Americas, Vol.XXXIV, No.1, July-August 2000, 29-33.
Co-author. "Liberalization and Ethnic Conflict in Latin America," with Carol Wise, Studies in Comparative International Development, Fall 1997, 76-104.
"Turning Weakness Into Strength: The Internationalization of Indian Rights," Latin American Perspectives, Vol.23, No.2, Spring 1996, 38-57.
"Hearts and Minds: Bringing Symbolic Politics Back In," Polity, Vol.XXVII, No. 4, Summer 1995, 559-585.
"Acting Globally: Indian Rights and International Politics," in Indigenous Peoples and Democracy in Latin America, ed. Donna Lee Van Cott, Washington, D.C.: St. Martin's Press and Inter-American Dialogue, 1994.
"The Politics of Measurement: Counting the Disappeared in Argentina," Human Rights Quarterly, Vol.16, No.4, Nov.1994, 676-692.
"From Above and Below: Social Movements, The International System and Human Rights in Argentina," Comparative Political Studies, Vol.26, No.3, October 1993, 259-285.
AWARDS AND HONORS
Woodrow Wilson Center, Fellow, Washington, D.C. (2013-2014).
University of California Humanities Center, “Re-envisioning the Human: Human Rights and Humanitarianism,” Co-PI with Keith Watenpaugh and Gershon Shafir, Multi-campus Research Group (2012-2014).
Fulbright Senior Scholar, Ravenshaw University, Orissa, India (2011).
University of California, Irvine, Distinguished Mid-Career Research Award (2007-2008).
Fulbright Foundation, Visiting Chair in Global Governance, University of Waterloo/Centre for International Governance Innovation (2007).
Social Science Research Council/Abe Foundation Fellowship, Field Research in Japan, the Netherlands, and South Africa (2006).
Canadian Embassy, Canadian Studies Faculty Research Program, Field Research In Canada, “Global Good Samaritans” (2005).
Global Peace and Conflict Studies, Field Research In Sweden, “Global Good Samaritans” (2004).
U.S. Department Of Education, U.C. Irvine Latin American Studies, Field Research in Costa Rica, “Global Good Samaritans” (2003).
Institute on Global Conflict And Cooperation, With Gershon Shafir, Conference On “Citizenship In A Global Era” (2001-2002).
Global Peace and Conflict Studies, Research Award: “Global Capital And Global Conscience” For Human Rights And Private Wrongs (2000-2001).
Institute on Global Conflict And Cooperation, Conference On “Globalization And Human Rights” (1999-2000).
United States Institute for Peace, Field Research In Ecuador (1995-96).
Steele Foundation, Research Sabbatical Support, Pomona College (1995-96).
Hewlett Foundation, Collaborative Research in International Studies (1994-95).
Avery Professorship, Claremont Graduate School (1994-95).
Hewlett Foundation, International Policy Education Development (1992-93).
Mellon Foundation, New Directions Fellowship (1987-88, 1988-89).
Institute for The Study Of World Politics, Dissertation Fieldwork (1988).
Tinker Foundation, Fieldwork in Argentina (1987).
Macarthur Foundation, Summer Support (1987).