People

The Carr Center community includes leading scholars and practitioners from a variety of disciplines, exploring issues including artificial intelligence, corruption, migration, trafficking, and torture. Our experts embrace backgrounds ranging from diplomacy to business and social responsibility, and to technology and ethics.

Leadership

Maggie Gates

Maggie Gates

Executive Director, Carr Center for Human Rights Policy

Maggie is the Executive Director for the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard Kennedy School. Before joining the Carr Center, Maggie was the...

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Faculty Committee

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Jacqueline Bhabha

Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights, HSPH
Jeremiah Smith Jr. Lecturer in Law, HLS

Jacqueline Bhabha, JD, MsC is a Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She is also the Jeremiah Smith, Jr. Lecturer in Law at Harvard Law School, and  Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School.... Read more about Jacqueline Bhabha

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Dara Kay Cohen

Dara Kay Cohen

Professor of Public Policy

Dara Kay Cohen is a political scientist and Professor of Public Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Her research and teaching interests include the causes and consequences of civil war and other forms of political violence, gender and conflict, and qualitative and mixed research methods. She is currently serving as the Area Chair for the International and Global Affairs Area.... Read more about Dara Kay Cohen

Zoe Marks

Zoe Marks

Lecturer in Public Policy

Zoe Marks is a Lecturer in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. Her research and teaching interests focus on the intersections of conflict and political violence; race, gender and inequality; peacebuilding; and African politics.... Read more about Zoe Marks

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Kathryn Sikkink

Ryan Family Professor of Human Rights Policy

Kathryn Sikkink works on international norms and institutions, transnational advocacy networks, the impact of human rights law and policies, and transitional justice. Her publications include The Hidden Face of Rights: Toward a Politics of Responsibilities; Evidence for Hope: Making Human Rights Work in the 21st Century; The Justice Cascade: How Human Rights Prosecutions are Changing World Politics (awarded the Robert F. Kennedy Center Book Award, and the WOLA/Duke University Award); Mixed Signals: U.S. Human Rights Policy and Latin America;  Activists Beyond Borders: Advocacy Networks in International Politics (co-authored with Margaret Keck and awarded the Grawemeyer Award for Ideas for Improving World Order, and the ISA Chadwick Alger Award for Best Book in the area of International Organizations); and The Persistent Power of Human Rights: From Commitment to Compliance, (co-edited with Thomas Risse and Stephen Ropp). ... Read more about Kathryn Sikkink

Faculty Associates

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Graham Allison

Douglas Dillon Professor of Government
Member of the Board, Belfer Center
Former Director, Belfer Center

Graham Allison is the Douglas Dillon Professor of Government at Harvard University where he has taught for five decades. Allison is a leading analyst of...

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Desmond Ang

Desmond Ang

Assistant Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School

Desmond Ang is an applied economist and assistant professor at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. He is particularly interested in the intersection...

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Eric Beerbohm

Professor of Government, Harvard University
Chair, Committee on Degrees in Social Studies
Eric Beerbohm is Professor of Government at Harvard University. His philosophical and teaching interests include democratic theory, theories of... Read more about Eric Beerbohm
Claude Bruderlein

Claude Bruderlein

Adjunct Lecturer on Global Health, HSPH

Claude Bruderlein is Senior Researcher at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative. He holds a faculty appointment at the Harvard School of Public Health and Kennedy School of Government, where he teaches strategic planning in humanitarian protection. In his research, Mr. Bruderlein focuses particularly on frontline humanitarian negotiation and mediation strategies, the protection of civilians and security management in humanitarian operations.... Read more about Claude Bruderlein

Non-resident
Martha Chen

Martha Chen

Lecturer in Urban Planning and Design, Graduate School of Design

Martha Chen is a Lecturer in Urban Planning and Design at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, and International Coordinator of the global research-policy-action network Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO).... Read more about Martha Chen

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I. Glenn Cohen

I. Glenn Cohen

James A. Attwood and Leslie Williams Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
Faculty Director, Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology & Bioethics

 I. Glenn Cohen is one of the world's leading experts on the intersection of bioethics (sometimes also called "medical ethics") and the law, as...

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Fellows

Simon Balto

Simon Balto

Carr Center Fellow

Simon Balto is an assistant professor of history and College of Letters and Science Mary Herman Rubinstein Professor at the University of...

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Martha Davis

Martha Davis

Carr Center Fellow

Professor Martha Davis teaches Constitutional Law, US Human Rights Advocacy and Professional Responsibility. She is a faculty director...

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Isabel  Ebert

Isabel Ebert

Technology and Human Rights Fellow

Isabel Ebert is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Business Ethics, University of St. Gallen, and serves as a Strategic...

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Dragana Kaurin

Dragana Kaurin

Technology and Human Rights Fellow

Dragana Kaurin is a human rights researcher and ethnographer working at the intersection of technology, human rights, and migration. Her...

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Staff

Helen Clapp

Helen Clapp

Research Coordinator & Faculty Assistant

Helen Clapp is the Research Coordinator and Faculty Assistant to Professor Kathryn Sikkink. She coordinates the Transitional Justice Evaluation Team...

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Emma Costa

Emma Costa

Events and Program Coordinator

Prior to joining the Carr Center, she worked as both a historian and research assistant for Tufts University’s Feinstein International Center. Earlier,...

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Yoonie Dunham

Yoonie Dunham

Fellowships & Program Assistant
Yoonie Dunham is the Fellowships & Program Intern of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.... Read more about Yoonie Dunham
Rachel Harris

Rachel Harris

Digital Content Specialist

Rachel Harris is the Digital Content Specialist at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy. She has been with the Kennedy School since December of 2018...

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