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Dr. Salvatore Babones
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salvatore.babones@sydney.edu.au +61 (2) 9351 4253 Room 131 |
Salvatore Babones is a senior lecturer in sociology and social policy at the University of Sydney and an associate fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) in Washington, DC. He holds both a master's degree in statistics and a Ph.D. in sociology from the Johns Hopkins University. Before moving to Australia in 2008, he taught for five years at the University of Pittsburgh.
Dr. Babones is the author or editor of eight books and more than two dozen academic research articles. His academic research focuses on income inequality, economic development, and statistical methods for comparative social science research. He writes mainly from a structuralist, world-systems perspective that analyzes the entire world-economy as operating within a single, global division of labor.
Dr. Babones writes a weekly column for the Inequality.org website. He is also a regular contributor to Truthout and other progressive websites and newsletters across America. Though most of his writing focuses on the United States, Dr. Babones also publishes on international affairs, particularly on issues affecting the middle-income countries of east Asia and eastern Europe.
Most of Dr. Babones' columns and op-eds are collected on his website at salvatorebabones.com.
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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.
Susan is the recipient of a Discovery Early Career Research Award, studying the homeland politics of precarious populations.
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.
Associate Professor Jonathan Bogais
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+61 (2) 9036 9186 Rm U205a |
Jonathan Bogais is Adjunct Associate Professor in the School of Social and Political Sciences, Department of Sociology & Social Policy at the University of Sydney. He is an analyst, social scientist, and strategic adviser in conflict (prevention, analysis, resolution), ethnicity, human rights, intercultural relations, internal displacement of people (IDPs), and refugees – specialising in Southeast Asia and Pacific.
Merging over three decades as a foreign correspondent and senior analyst (bi-lingual: French/English) working mostly in Southeast Asia, with a background in social sciences (Doctor of Philosophy, Sociology - Paris, Sorbonne, 1984), he has acquired a considerable cross-disciplinary knowledge in areas of conflict, human rights, ethnicity, violence (political and structural), and intercultural relations. He has had an ongoing involvement during this time in international missions investigating and reporting on sectarian conflicts, human rights abuses, internal displacement of people (IDPs), refugee and humanitarian issues, and aid distribution, especially in Southeast Asia, PNG, and the Philippines. He has advised delegations and participated in conflict resolution negotiations, and continues to be engaged in these areas. He also lectures in human rights and democracy.
His focus is currently on knowledge utilisation. He has a United Nations-related agency mandate and funding to investigate knowledge utilisation models to improve the interaction between research utilisation and evidence-based practice, especially in areas of conflict.
Dr. Deirdre Howard-Wagner
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deirdre.howard-wagner@sydney.edu.au +61 (2) 9351 6679 Room 157 |
Deirdre Howard-Wagner is sociologist and socio-legal scholar, who currently holds an ARC DECRA (March 2012 to March 2015) in the Department of Sociology and Social Policy at theUniversity of Sydney. Her substantive position is Senior Lecturer in Socio-Legal Studies in the Department of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Sydney. She joined the Socio-Legal Studies program at Sydney University in 2006. Concurrent with writing her PhD in sociology at the University of Newcastle, she was the Deputy Director of the Justice Policy Research Centre in the School of Law at the University of Newcastle (2004-2006). Prior to commencing her PhD she worked as a senior policy officer in federal government including the Department of the Environment and the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet developing, for example, federal Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander policy and law, such as law and policy relating to Aboriginal cultural heritage protection and world heritage matters (1992-2000). She holds a Bachelor of Arts (IV - first class) from the Australian National University.
Howard-Wagner's work on state governmentality and Indigenous rights is having the greatest impact both internationally and nationally. Her publications are historical and comparative in nature, connecting present federal Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander laws and policies to past temporal, spatial and racial narratives. Her current ARC DECRA project builds on this work, but takes it in new directions. For example, rather than focusing on the intent of laws and policies, it engages empirically with Aboriginal peoples’ standpoints and experiences and explores state governance, self-determination, and Aboriginal engagement from this perspective. The projects interdisciplinary and concordant intellectual aims will advance understandings about Aboriginal policy, governance and rights in Australia. The proposed project will fill a significant gap in knowledge via a case study of how one Aboriginal community has worked to address Aboriginal disadvantage and promote Aboriginal well-being, as well as enhanced economic, social and cultural capacity of local Aboriginal people and the community more generally while maintaining a political commitment to and social ethic of Aboriginal empowerment.
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.
Dr. Naser Ghobadzadeh
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naser.ghobadzadeh@sydney.edu.au +61 (2) 9351 3210 Room 504 |
Naser Ghobadzadeh lectures at the Department of the Government and I.R., the University of Sydney. He completed his PhD on political Islam and the state in Iran at the University of Sydney. He has worked as editor-in-chief of the foreign policy service at the Iranian Students’ News Agency (ISNA), communication officer with the UNDP and head of the Information Resource Centre (IRC), UNICEF office in Tehran.
Naser’s Master’s thesis was awarded by the Ministry of Science (Iran) as the best dissertation at the 2003 Annual Festival of the Best Research. His book A Study of People’s Divergence from Ruling System scrutinises value changes and their impact on Iran’s politico-religious mosaic. His articles have been published in internationally refereed journals such as Democratization, Commonwealth & Comparative Politics, Philosophy & Social Criticism and Discourse. Researching at the intersection of religion and politics, Naser’s interests lie in the study of political Islam, state-religion relations, secularism and Middle East and Iranian politics.
Professor Michael Humphrey
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michael.humphrey@sydney.edu,au +61 (2) 9351 6901 Room 128 |
Michael Humphrey holds a Chair in Sociology at the Department of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Sydney. He teaches in the areas of human rights and victim politics, political violence and terror and democratisation. His current research projects focus on ‘the politics of accountability’ and ‘urban violence and citizen security’. This research focuses on the legacies of violence and the crisis of rights in postconflict societies.
He works as a comparative sociologist and has undertaken fieldwork in Australia, Bosnia, Pakistan, Lebanon, Jordan, Argentina, Uruguay, Spain and South Africa. He has published widely on the themes of Islam in the West; the Lebanese diaspora; social relations of globalisation; war, political violence and terrorism; human rights, reconciliation and transitional justice. His main publications are Islam, Multiculturalism & Transnationalism: from the Lebanese Diaspora, IB Tauris (1998) and The Politics of Atrocity and Reconciliation: from terror to trauma, Routledge (2002). He is currently working on a book with Estela Valverde entitled Amnesty and Transitional Justice: the judicialisation of politics for (Intersentia 2012). He is an Associate Editor of Social Analysis: The International Journal of Social and Cultural Practice and on the Editorial Board of Temida: The journal on victimization, human rights and gender.
Dr. Alexandre Lefebvre
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+61 (2) 9351 4945 Room 505 |
Alexandre Lefebvre is a lecturer in the Department of Government and International Relations, and the Department of Philosophy, at the University of Sydney. My teaching and research interests are in political theory and the philosophy of human rights.
At present I am working on a project titled Human Rights and the Care of the Self. The goal of this research is to undertake a basic shift in perspective in how we view human rights. Ordinarily, human rights are understood as protections of our human status. Exactly what human rights protect varies from theory to theory – it could be dignity, normative agency, or something else – but there is an unspoken and nearly universal consensus that the business of human rights is to protect human beings. I take a different approach. My guiding idea in this project is that human rights are not only a means to protect all people against serious legal, political and social abuse, but they are also a medium of self-care and personal transformation. The aim of my project is to analyse how human rights law, discourse, and practice serve to transform the whole of one’s life or way of being.
I am author of Human Rights as a Way of Life: on Bergson’s Political Philosophy (Stanford University Press, 2013), The Image of Law: Deleuze, Bergson, Spinoza (Stanford University Press, 2008), and co-editor of Bergson, Politics, and Religion (Duke University Press, 2012).
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 and the peer-reviewed journal Anti-Trafficking Review.
She is member of the Migrant Worker Taskforce Australia, and under the auspices of the Sydney Social Justice Network, she has been awarded a grant for a project on The Future of Migrant Workers Rights in Australia - Building an alliance for migrant justice.