Alison Brysk

Alison Brysk (born March 8, 1960) ^[1] is an American political scientist who holds the Mellichamp Chair in Global Governance, Global and International Studies, at the University of California, Santa Barbara, specializing in international Human Rights. ^[2]

Brysk attended Pomona College ^[3] received a master's degree in political science and a Ph.D. in political science, both from Stanford University. Her doctoral thesis was "The political impact of Argentina's human rights movement: social movements, transition and democratization." ^[4] Brysk has taught at University of New Mexico, Pomona, Stanford, Lund University in Sweden, and the University of California, Irvine. ^[5] She currently teaches at the University of California, Santa Barbara in the Global and International Studies department. ^[2]

In 2011, Brysk was the Fulbright Senior Scholar at Ravenshaw University in India, and in 2007 she held the Fulbright Distinguished Visiting Chair in Global Governance at Canada's CIGI. ^[2] Brysk was a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C. for the 2013-2014 academic year, where she completed a project called "Women's Rights as Human Rights: Constructing Political Will." ^[6] Brysk is an officer of both the American Political Science Association and the International Studies Association. ^[7] She has been published in a range of academic journals, including Comparative Political Studies, Human Rights Quarterly, and Polity. ^[7]

Selected publications

• 1994. The Politics of Human Rights in Argentina: Protest, Change, and Democratization. Stanford University Press. ISBN   978-0-8047-2275-9.
• 2000. From Tribal Village to Global Village: Indian Rights and International Relations in Latin America. Stanford University Press. ISBN   978-0-8047-3458-5.
• 2004. Human Rights and Private Wrongs: Constructing Global Civil Society. Routledge. ISBN   978-0-415-94476-2.
• 2009. Global Good Samaritans: Human Rights as Foreign Policy. Oxford University Press. ISBN   978-0-19-538157-3.
• 2013. Speaking Rights to Power: Constructing Political Will. Oxford University Press. ISBN   978-0-19-998266-0.

References

1. LC Authority file
2. "Alison Brysk | Department of Global Studies - UC Santa Barbara".
3. "Alison Brysk | University of California, Irvine". uci.academia.edu. Retrieved 3 August 2020.
4. LC item record
5. "Alison Brysk CV". Archived from the original on 2015-03-17. Retrieved 2015-03-03.
6. "Alison Brysk". 2013-04-16.
7. "Alison Brysk CV". Archived from the original on 2015-02-17. Retrieved 2015-03-09.

External links

• Official biography at University of California