2008 CICS Human Rights and
International Development and Security Fellowships

 

The Center for International and Comparative Studies (CICS) is pleased to announce that two CICS Human Rights Fellowships have been awarded to Michigan faculty members to develop courses on human rights for the International Studies minor. A CICS International Development and Security Fellowship has also been awarded. The fellows will develop and teach an advanced seminar and present public lectures as part of the fellowship.

 

Susan Waltz, Professor of Public Policy, Ford School of Public Policy at U-M, has been awarded a CICS Human Rights Fellowship.  Her research and advocacy work has recently focused on efforts to promote an international treaty to curtail the flow of small arms and light weapons. She is also developing curricular modules for teaching human rights courses at the university level, as interest and courses in human rights have grown rapidly on campuses across the country.

As part of the fellowship, she will develop and teach a seminar for the International Studies minor, Human Rights and Public Policy, and deliver a public lecture in the fall 2008 on Just What IS a Human Rights Problem?: Changing Times and Changing Views.

Andrew Herscher, Assistant Professor of Architecture and Urban Planning and Slavic Languages and Literatures at U-M, has also been awarded a CICS Human Rights Fellowship. His research explores the architectural and urban media of political violence, cultural memory, collective identity, and human rights, focusing on modern and contemporary Eastern Europe and the Balkans.

As part of the fellowship, he will develop and teach a seminar for the International Studies minor, Cultural Rights: Local Identities and Global Ethics, and deliver a lecture in winter 2009 on Rights against/to/as Culture.

 

James Morrow, Professor of Political Science at U-M, has been awarded a CICS International Development and Security fellowship. His research addresses international relations theory, explanations for why conflict and cooperation occur in international politics, and the application of noncooperative game theory, drawn from economics, to explain international conflict. He is also completing a book on the Geneva and Hague Convention law on conduct during wartime.

He will develop and teach a seminar for the International Studies minor on Causes and Consequences of War, and deliver a public lecture on Current Issues in World Politics in winter 2009.