Academic Staff
Dr. Susan Banki
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+61 (2) 9351 4279 Room 417 The University of Sydney |
Susan Banki’s research interests lie in the political, institutional, and legal contexts that explain the roots of and solutions to international human rights violations. In particular, she is interested in the ways that questions of sovereignty, citizenship/membership and humanitarian principles have shaped our understanding of and reactions to various transnational phenomena, such as the international human rights regime, international migration and the provision of international aid. Susan’s focus is in the Asia-Pacific region, where she has conducted extensive field research in Thailand, Nepal, Bangladesh and Japan on refugee/migrant protection, statelessness and border control. She is currently investigating the local, regional and international mechanisms (and the interactions between them) that serve as potential levers for change.
Her current research and teaching interests include: forced displacement and international migration, refugee resettlement, transnational social movements, human rights at the United Nations and humanitarian assistance.
Associate Professor Jennifer Barrett
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jennifer.barrett@sydney.edu.au +61 (2) 9351 6665 A26, R.C. Mills |
Jennifer Barrett was appointed to the University of Sydney in 2000. Her recent administrative positions at the University of Sydney include Pro Dean (2010) Associate Dean Postgraduate Coursework (2007-2009) and Deputy Chair of Postgraduate Matters (2008-2009) and Director of Museum Studies since 2001, which also has partnership with Hong Kong University. She has also held positions in art history and cultural studies at the School of Cultural Histories and Futures at the University of Western Sydney. Her recent work includes Museums and the Public Sphere (Wiley Blackwell 2011, and pb, 2012); a co-authored monograph (with Jacqueline Millner) Australian Artists and Museums (forthcoming with Ashgate 2012) and ‘Museums Human Rights and Universalism’ in eds., A. Witcomb and K. Message Museum theory: an expanded field (Wiley- Blackwell, 2012). Her research has been supported by the Australia International Cultural Council (2008) and the Visual Arts Board of the Australia Council for the Arts (2005 and 2009). Her current research explores Museums, human rights, universalism and the international public sphere.
Dr. Marco Duranti
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+61 2 9036 9662 Room 851 |
Marco Duranti is lecturer in the History Department of the University of Sydney, where he teaches late modern European history and the history of human rights. As a doctoral researcher, he was a Fulbright fellow at the European University Institute (2005-06) and a Fox fellow at the Institut d’Études Politiques de Paris (2006-07). He received his doctorate in 2009 from Yale University, where he wrote his dissertation on the political history of European human rights law. In 2010, he was a postdoctoral fellow in the Max Planck research group on history and memory at the University of Konstanz. He has published articles in theJournal of Contemporary History,Journal of Genocide ResearchandHumanity. He is currently completing a monograph for Oxford University Press entitled Human Rights and Conservative Politics in Postwar Europe.
Associate Professor Nicola Piper
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+61 2 9351 4684 Room 415A |
Nicola Piper joined the Department of Sociology at the University of Sydney as Associate Professor in July 2012. She will take up the Directorship of the Masters of Human Rights and Democratisation in January 2013. She is affiliated Senior Research Fellow at the Arnold Bergstraesser Institute at Freiburg University, Germany, external advisor on migration research at the UN Research Institute for Social Development, Geneva, as well as co-founder and Vice President of the Global Migration Policy Associates. Her primary research fields revolve around rights-based governance of international migration, migrant rights activism and labour rights as human rights. Geographically, most of her work focuses on Asia but she has also conducted fieldwork in Latin America and Europe.
Among her latest publications are the following volumes: New Perspectives on Gender and Migration: Livelihoods, Rights, and Entitlements (2008), South-South Migration: Implications for Social Policy and Development (with Katja Hujo, 2010) and the co-authored book Critical Perspectives on Global Governance: Rights and Regulation in Governing Regimes (with Jean Grugel, 2007). Since 2010, she has been editorial board member of the international peer-reviewed journal Refugee Survey Quarterly.