Alison Brysk

Alison Brysk "is Professor of Political Science and International Studies at the University of California, Irvine. Winner of the 2007-2008 Distinguished Mid-Career Research Award, she has authored or edited six books on international human rights (see the Research Page).  Professor Brysk has researched and lectured in a dozen countries, and in 2007 held the Fulbright Distinguished Visiting Chair in Global Governance at Canada's University of Waterloo/Centre for International Governance Innovation." CV


 * Community Advisory Board, Center for Citizen Peacebuilding
 * Human Rights Watch University Advisory Board (2001-2003)
 * Founder and Director, UCI Human Rights Program (2007-)
 * Steering Committee, University of California Human Rights Initiative (2006-)
 * Faculty Board, Citizen Peace-building Program, UC Irvine (2007-)
 * Network Institute for Global Democratization: Members

Books

 * Global Good Samaritans: Human Rights as Foreign Policy, Oxford University Press, February 2009.
 * Co-editor, Human Rights and National Insecurity: Democracies Debate Counterterrorism, with Gershon Shafir, University of California Press, 2007.
 * Human Rights and Private Wrongs: Constructing Global Civil Society, Routledge Press (Human Rights Horizons series), 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: Protest, Change, and Democratization, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1994.

Selected Articles

 * "Conclusion: Human Rights in Hard Times" in Brysk and Shafir (eds.) Human Rights and National Insecurity: Democracies Debate Counter-terrorism, with Gershon Shafir and Daniel Wehrenfennig, University of California Press, 2007.
 * “Democratizing Civil Society in Latin America,” Journal of Democracy, Vol. 11, No.3, July 2000, 151-165.
 * "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.

Selected Grants

 * United States Institute For Peace, Field Research In Ecuador (1995-96).
 * Steele Foundation, Research Sabbatical Support Through Pomona College (1995-96).
 * Hewlett Foundation, Collaborative Research In International Studies (1994-95).
 * Tinker Foundation, Fieldwork In Argentina (1987).
 * Macarthur Foundation, Summer Support (1987).