Alison Brysk

Alison Brysk (born March 8, 1960)[1] is an American political scientist who holds the Mellichamp Chair in Global Governance, Global and International Studies, at the University of California, Santa Barbara, specializing in international Human Rights.[2]

Brysk attended Pomona College[3] received a master's degree in political science and a Ph.D. in political science, both from Stanford University. Her doctoral thesis was "The political impact of Argentina's human rights movement: social movements, transition and democratization."[4] Brysk has taught at University of New Mexico, Pomona, Stanford, Lund University in Sweden, and the University of California, Irvine.[5] She currently teaches at the University of California, Santa Barbara in the Global and International Studies department.[2]

In 2011, Brysk was the Fulbright Senior Scholar at Ravenshaw University in India, and in 2007 she held the Fulbright Distinguished Visiting Chair in Global Governance at Canada's CIGI.[2] Brysk was a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C. for the 2013-2014 academic year, where she completed a project called "Women's Rights as Human Rights: Constructing Political Will."[6] Brysk is an officer of both the American Political Science Association and the International Studies Association.[7] She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.[8] She has been published in a range of academic journals, including Comparative Political Studies, Human Rights Quarterly, and Polity.[7]

Selected publications

  • 1994. The Politics of Human Rights in Argentina: Protest, Change, and Democratization. Stanford University Press. ISBN 978-0-8047-2275-9.
  • 2000. From Tribal Village to Global Village: Indian Rights and International Relations in Latin America. Stanford University Press. ISBN 978-0-8047-3458-5.
  • 2004. Human Rights and Private Wrongs: Constructing Global Civil Society. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-94476-2.
  • 2009. Global Good Samaritans: Human Rights as Foreign Policy. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-538157-3.
  • 2013. Speaking Rights to Power: Constructing Political Will. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-998266-0.

References

  1. ↑ LC Authority file
  2. 1 2 3 "Alison Brysk | Department of Global Studies - UC Santa Barbara".
  3. ↑ "Alison Brysk | University of California, Irvine". uci.academia.edu. Retrieved 3 August 2020.
  4. ↑ LC item record
  5. ↑ "Alison Brysk CV". Archived from the original on 2015-03-17. Retrieved 2015-03-03.
  6. ↑ "Alison Brysk". 2013-04-16.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
  7. 1 2 "Alison Brysk CV". Archived from the original on 2015-02-17. Retrieved 2015-03-09.
  8. ↑ "Membership Roster". Council on Foreign Relations. 24 July 2026. Retrieved 24 July 2026.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)