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Catherine A. Admay Visiting Professor Departments of Public Policy and Political Science 
Duke professor Catherine Admay (left) Catherine Admay received her JD and BA (Philosophy, magna cum laude) from Yale Law School (1992) and Yale College (1988). She taught at NYU Law School (1994-96) and Duke Law School (1996-2002) before joining, as visiting faculty, the departments of Political Science and Public Policy/Duke Center for International Development. Her teaching and research interests are in the areas of international law and international politics; in the connection between international and constitutional law; in human rights law, comparative constitutional law, international environmental law, law and development, and jurisprudence. Admay worked for the Legal Resources Centre in Pretoria and Gazankulu, South Africa, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, the Office of the Legal Advisor in the United States Department of State, and with private law firms in Washington, D.C. and Seattle. She clerked for Judge Betty Fletcher of the United States Court of Appeals on the 9th Circuit in Seattle, Washington.
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Lee. D. Baker Associate Professor Department of Cultural Anthropology Lee D. Baker received his Ph.D. from Temple University in 1994. His research explores the history of anthropology and its role in the U.S. as the science of race and arbiter of culture. He is author of From Savage To Negro: Anthropology and the Construction of Race, 1896-1954 (University of California Press 1998). While his main research explores the history of anthropology in the U.S., he is also interested in the Aboriginal experience in Australia, the African American experience in the U.S. He is currently a fellow at the National Humanities Center Recent Publications
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Robert Byrd Director, Rare Book, Manuscript and Special Collections Library Byrd is instrumental in the effort to bring more human rights-related material to Duke, including personal archives of pivotal human rights figures and the organizational archives of non-governmental groups doing human rights work.
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Erwin Chemerinsky Alstin & Bird Professor of Law Erwin Chemerinsky joined the Duke Law faculty July 1, 2004. Since 1983, he has been a professor at the University of Southern California Law School, where he was the Sydney M. Irmas Professor of Public Interest Law, Legal Ethics, and Political Science. He was a trial attorney at the United States Department of Justice in Washington, D.C., and an attorney at Dobrovir, Oakes, and Gebhardt, in Washington, D.C. He is the author of four books: Federal Jurisdiction (Aspen Law & Business 4th ed. 2003) (a one volume treatise on federal courts); Constitutional Law: Principles and Policies (Aspen Law & Business 2d. ed. 2002) (a one volume treatise on constitutional law); Constitutional Law (Aspen Law & Business 2001) (a casebook); Interpreting the Constitution (Praeger 1987). Also, he is the author of over 100 law review articles Recent Publications
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Ariel Dorfman Walter Hines Page Research Professor of Literature and Latin American Studies Program in Literature/Program in Latin American Studies Ariel Dorfman has a Licenciatura in Comparative Literature from the Universidad de Chile, Santiago, 1965. He has taught at the Universidad de Chile, the Sorbonne (Paris IV) and the University of Amsterdam. His major publications include the essays, "How to Read Donald Duck" (in collaboration with Armand Mattlelart, 1971), "The Empire's Old Clothes" (1983), and "Someone Writes to the Future: Essays on Contemporary Latin American Fiction" (1991). He is also the author of a collection of poetry, Last Waltz in Santiago and Other Poems of Exile and Disappearance (1988), and In Case of Fire in a Foreign Land: New and Collected Poems from Two Languages (2002), and the memoir, Heading South, Looking North: A Bilingual Journey (1998). His novels include Widows (1983), The Last Song of Manuel Sendero (1986), Mascara (1988), Hard Rain (1990), Konfidenz (1995), The Nanny and the Iceburg (1999), and Blake's Therapy (2001). His plays include Widows (which won a New American Plays Award from the Kennedy Center), and Reader (winner of the Roger L. Stevens Award from the Kennedy Center) which is in production world wide. Death and the Maiden, winner of many awards and also in production worldwide, was made into a Roman Polanski film. Mascara (with son, Rodrigo Dorfman), premiered in Bonn in 1998, and Who's Who (also with Rodrigo Dorfman) premiered in Frankfurt in 1998. He also has created a collection of his plays, The Resistance Trilogy, which includes Death and the Maiden, Reader, and Widows. His newest works include Exorcising Terror: The Incredible, Unending Trial of General Augusto Pinochet, and the novel The Burning City, which he wrote with his youngest son, Joaquin Dorfman. His latest plays include Purgatory, which will appear on Broadway in 2004, and The Other Side, which will premiere in Tokyo next year before being produced in London by Sir Peter Hall. Recent Publications
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Claudia Koonz Professor Department of History Claudia Koonz's interests are in 20th Century German History, Women's History, and genocide. She has received research support from the Rockefeller Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the German-Marshall Fund, Duke University, the American Council for Learned Societies and the National Humanities Center. Her book Mothers in the Fatherland received several awards: as a finalist for the National Book Award non-fiction nomination, 1987; The Boston Globe-Winship Book of the Year Award, 1987; The Berkshire Conference 1987 Book Award; The Jesuit Honor Society book of the year; and it was one of the New York Times and Liberation's (Paris) best 100 books of 1987 and 1990, respectively. She is the co-director of the Duke Refugee Action Project, as well as with summer and post grad internship training in Croatia, Central America and other areas. In addition, she is the current president of the Berkshire Conference for Women Historians. Recent Publications
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Anirudh Krishna Assistant Professor of Public Policy Studies and Political Science Anirudh Krishna has a Ph.D. in Government from Cornell University and master's degrees in International Development and Economics from Cornell University and the Delhi School of Economics, respectively. His most recent book, Active Social Capital: Tracing the Roots of Development and Democracy, was published in 2002 by Columbia University Press, New York , and by Oxford University Press, New Delhi . He is co-author of Reasons For Success: Learning from Instructive Experiences in Rural Development (Kumarian, 1998), co-editor of Reasons For Hope: Instructive Experiences in Rural Development (Kumarian, 1997), and editor of Changing Policy and Practice From Below: Community Experiences in Poverty Reduction (United Nations 2000). Current and previous research interests include social capital, comparative decentralization, political participation, poverty reduction, and local institutional development. An article on social capital and political participation published in Comparative Political Studies (May 2002) won the best article award from the Comparative Democratization Section of the American Political Science Association. Most recently, Krishna has been working on poverty and democracy at the micro level. Beginning in 2000, he has conducted field research on this subject in India , Kenya , Peru and Uganda . Articles emerging from this research, published in the Journal of Development Studies, Journal of Human Development, World Development and elsewhere, can be viewed at www.pubpol.duke.edu/krishna/householdpoverty. Recent publications Krishna's extensive list of publications is available at http://www.pubpol.duke.edu/people/faculty/krishna/krishnacv2006.pdf
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Ebrahim Moosa Associate Professor Department of Religion Ebrahim E.I. Moosa joined Duke University in the fall of 2001. With interests in Islamic thought, especially Islamic law, ethics, theology and critical theory Ebrahim Moosa is associate research professor in the department of religion and co-director of the Center for Study of Muslim Networks. Prior to Duke he spent three years 1998-2001 as visiting professor at Stanford University, California and prior to that he taught at the University of Cape Town in his native South Africa. He has a PhD from the University of Cape Town. He received his first degree, known as the alimiyya degree from Nadwatul Ulama, Lucknow, India where he received extensive training in the traditional Islamic sciences. After completing his studies in India he worked as a journalist in the United Kingdom for Arabia: The Islamic World Review and later as staff writer for MEED (Middle East Economic Digest) and also as a political writer for the Cape Times in South Africa. He joined the teaching faculty in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Cape Town in 1989 and completed his doctoral studies on the confluence of language and theology in the legal thought of the 12th century Muslim thinker, Abu Hamid al-Ghazali (d.1111). He is the author of many published essays in Islamic thought ranging from issues in ethics and law covering topics such as human rights, women's rights, Muslim family law, medical ethics and political ethics to historical studies that deal with questions of Qur'an exegesis and medieval Islamic law and philosophy. He is especially interested in the way religious traditions encounter modernity and the way new conceptions of history and culture dialogically engages with the Islamic heritage. Currently he is finishing a manuscript called: A Poetics of Imagination: Ghazali and the Construction of Muslim Thought that explores the ideas of one of the foremost thinkers of medieval Islam. Another book in the making is provisionally titled After Empire: Rethinking Islam in (Post) Modernity. Here he explores the major ethical questions that a tradition-in-the making like Islam experiences in a rapidly changing world, where Muslims are located in different settings and face new and extraordinary challenges. The political and historical settings against which Islam functions in the modern world is carefully addressed in this work and how what kinds of resources the tradition offers and what kinds of responses would be appropriate. He also edited and wrote an introduction to the last manuscript of the late Professor Fazlur Rahman, Revival and Reform in Islam: A Study of Islamic Fundamentalism (Oxford: Oneworld, 2000), a work that explores the intellectual history on which modern Islamic fundamentalism basis its claims. Moosa has worked extensively in the field of Islamic thought, rethinking Islam in modernity and has met with foremost thinkers, activists and role-players in the Muslim world. He also has had extensive experience in collaborating in human rights causes in the anti-apartheid struggle and he is considered to be among the foremost figures of a new generation of Muslim thinkers.
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Charles Piot Associate Professor African and African-American Studies/Cultural Anthropology Piot does research on histories of slavery and colonialism, as well as on contemporary culture and politics, in rural West Africa. His book, Remotely Global: Village Modernity in West Africa (1999), attempts to retheorize a classic out-of-the-way place as within the modern and the global. He is currently engaged in several new projects. One explores the way in which (post-Cold War) human rights discourse, democratization, development, and charismatic Christianity are articulating with West African political cultures. A second tracks global discourses about female genital cutting from Western courtrooms and media into the capitals and villages of West Africa. A third explores West African expatriates in the US and Europe, examining the way in which exile reshapes questions of citizenship, sovereignty and national belonging. Recent Publications
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Orin Starn Sally Dalton Robinson Professor of Cultural Anthropology Department of Cultural Anthropology Orin Starn is interested in themes of culture, history, and power, and specialize in Latin America and Native North America. His new book Ishi's Brain: In Search of America's Last "Wild' Indian" (http://www.orinstarn.com/) (W.W. Norton and Company, 2004) explores the story of this last survivor of California's Yahi tribe. It's the result of his research over the last few years in Native California, and explores questions about violence and conquest, the history of the West, and the relation between anthropology and indigenous peoples. Earlier, he did much of my work in the Andes of South America, mostly in Peru. His book Nightwatch: The Politics of Protest in the Andes (Duke University Press, 1999) recounts the history of a powerful rural movement that emerged in the 1980s. Here he took up issues related to political violence and national identity, social movements and modernity, and gender and power as they have played out in the Andes. His work in Peru also resulted in a co-edited book called The Peru Reader: History, Culture, and Politics (Duke University Press, 1995). He has also published or edited three books in Spanish, and co-edited an anthology about cultural politics and social protest, Between Resistance and Revolution: Cultural Politics and Social Protest (Rutgers University Press, 1997). His future research will focus on both Native North America and Latin America. He is also working on a documentary film based on Ishi's Brain, and appear in the recent PBS documentary on Native American repatriation, "Who Owns the Past?" He has a former fellow at the National Humanities Center and the current chair of the Editorial Advisory Board of Duke University Press. Recent Publications
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Guillermo Trejo Assistant Professor Department of Political Science Trejo specializes in comparative politics (social conflict, religion, ethnicity and democratization) and Latin American politics and society. His primary research analyzes the impact of religious competition and multi-party politics on the dynamics of social protest, rebellion and inter-communal violence among ethnic minorities in Mexico. He is also working on state repression and human rights violations of political dissidents and religious minorities during the Mexican transition to democracy. His work combines quantitative methods with analytic process-tracing and case studies. Recent publications
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DUKE HUMAN RIGHTS CENTER DIRECTOR Robin Kirk (www.robinkirk.com) An award-winning author and human rights activist, Robin Kirk is a visiting lecturer at Duke University and coordinates the Duke Human Rights Center. Kirk frequently speaks about Latin America, human rights and U.S. policy. Kirk also works as an investigator on capital cases. Kirk authored, co-authored and edited over twelve reports for Human Rights Watch. In the 1980s, Kirk reported for U.S. media from Peru, where she covered the war between the government and the Shining Path. During that time, she also prepared reports for the U.S. Committee on Refugees, including the first report ever on the plight of Peru's internally displaced people. The Decade of Chaqwa was followed by a second report, To Build Anew, dealing with the effort of some displaced families to return to their homes. Kirk also authored the first report chronicling the plight of the forcibly displaced in Colombia, Feeding the Tiger. Kirk is a former Radcliffe Bunting Fellow and is a past winner of the Media Alliance Meritorious Achievement Award for Freelance Writing. Recent Publications
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