Share This PageEssays on Human Rights Series
This series features important new works by leading figures in the interdisciplinary field of human rights. Books in the series present provocative and powerful statements, theories, or views on contemporary issues in human rights. The aim of the series is to provide, short, accessible works that will present new and original thinking in crystalline form and in a language accessible to a wide range of scholars, policymakers, students, and general readers. The series will include works by anthropologists, sociologists, philosophers, political scientists, and those working in the more traditional fields of human rights, including practitioners.
Thomas Cushman is Professor of Sociology at Wellesley College. He previously edited a series for the Penn State University Press titled Post-Communist Cultural Studies in which a dozen volumes appeared. He is the founding editor of two journals, Human Rights Review and the Journal of Human Rights, and he now serves as Editor-at-Large for the latter. He is a Fellow of the Yale Center for Cultural Sociology