The New School Graduate Program in International Affairs

Professor Arato is the Dorothy Hart Hirshon Professor in Political and Social Theory, has taught at Ecole des hautes etudes, and Sciences Po in Paris, and the Central European University in Budapest, had a Fulbright teaching grant to Montevideo in 1991, and was Distinguished Fulbright Professor at the GoetheUniversity in Frankfurt/M, Germany.

Professor Arato has served as a consultant for the Hungarian Parliament on constitutional issues: 1996-1997, and as U.S. State Department Democracy Lecturer and Consultant (on Constitutional issues) Nepal 2007.

The scholarly research of Professor Arato is widely recognized and conferences and sessions have been organized around his work at University of Glasgow Law School in Spring 2009; and KocUniversity, Istanbul, in December 2009, as well as at the Faculty of Law. Witwaterstrand University, Johannesburg, South Africa, in August 2010.

Andrew Arato have also been appointed Honorary Professor, and Bram Fischer Visiting Scholar at the School of Law, University of Witwatersrand Johannesburg (June 2010 - June 2011)

Interests include the politics of civil society; constitutional theory; comparative politics of constitution making; religion, secularism and constitutions. He teaches also general courses in political sociology, social theory and sociology of religion.

Concentrations: The history of social and political thought, legal and constitutional theory, historical problems of revolutions and radical transformations.

NOTE: Jonathan Bach is currently teaching in the undergraduate Global Studies Program

Jonathan Bach (Ph.D., Syracuse University) is Associate Professor of International Affairs and Chair of the interdisciplinary Global Studies undergraduate program. His current work concerns post-socialist transition in Germany and China and has also written on information technology and organizational change, labor migration and citizenship, and political theory. He has held post-doctoral research positions at Columbia and Harvard Universities, and visiting positions at Brown, Columbia, Berlin and Hamburg. He is author of Between Sovereignty and Integration: German Foreign Policy and National Identity after 1989, and articles in Cultural Anthropology, Cultural Politics, Theory, Culture & Society, Geopolitics, Public Culture, Studies in Comparative International Development, Foreign Policy in Focus, Peace Review, and Philosophy and Social Science.

Nehal Bhuta is a Core Faculty member and Assistant Professor of International Affairs at the New School GPIA. He has previously worked with Human Rights Watch and the International Center for Transitional Justice, and at the Federal Court of Australia. His research interests are in international law, political theory, human rights law and the laws of war. Between 2007 and 2009, he was Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Toronto. He has been the recipient of numerous prizes and awards, including a Fulbright Scholarship, a Hauser Global Scholarship, a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Research Grant, and the Regione Toscana Premio Giorgio La Pira. For a list of publications and some full text, see personal web page.

Sheila Dauer, founder and former Director of AIUSA's Women's Human Rights Program during the program's existence from October 1997 to end December, 2008, was on the staff of AIUSA from 1979 to 2008. Since 1988, as a charter member of an AIUSA Taskforce on Women's Human Rights, she worked with both AI international and US staff, board and volunteer leaders to develop AI's policy, action and publications on women's human rights.  In 1991, she prepared AI's first international report on women's human rights, Women in the Front Line.  As Acting National Campaign Director in 1995, she directed AIUSA's campaigns on Nigeria, Indonesia, China, and Women's Human Rights concurrent with the UN 4th World Conference on Women. From 2002 on, she served as Theme Advisor to AIUSA's Stop Violence Against Women Campaign (2004-2008), developing strategies and actions on multiple countries and issues around violence against women.  Dr. Dauer, who holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology, carried out fieldwork for two years in Tanzania and received two research fellowships, one from the National Institute of Mental Health and a Ford Foundation Fellowship on Women's Studies. She is an emeritus member of the American Anthropological Association's Committee for Human Rights currently organizing a Task Group on gender for the Committee. She teaches at Columbia University Teachers College and The New School for General Studies. She has also taught international women's human rights at Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs.

Anna Di Lellio (Sociology PhD, Columbia University; Masters in Public Policy, NYU) is a journalist, sociologist and policy analyst with a broad range of interests and experience, from American politics and culture to nationalism, security and state-building in the Balkans. She is an expert on Kosovo, where she worked for years, as political adviser to the Prime Minister; Media Commissioner (the interim regulator of broadcasting and print media for the United Nations Mission); and research analyst and advisor for IOM and the UN on the Kosovo Liberation Army program of reintegration. Dr. Di Lellio currently lectures on political communication and media ethics at the Kosovo Institute of Journalism and Communication (KIJAC) in Prishtina.  She is the author of The Battle of Kosovo 1389. An Albanian Epic (London: I.B. Tauris 2009) and the editor of The Case for Kosova. A Passage to Independence (London: Anthem Press 2006).

Terra Lawson-Remer (J.D., Ph.D.) is Assistant Professor of International Affairs at the New School University in New York City. Previously, she was a Senior Adviser for International Affairs at the U.S. Department of the Treasury, and also held positions at the United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research, the law firm of Latham & Watkins, and the Ethical Globalization Initiative. Dr. Lawson-Remer is currently a fellow for Civil Society, Markets, and Democracy at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), where she is directing the CFR-sponsored study on the political economy of transitions. She currently chairs the New School's Advisory Committee on Investor Responsibility, and is also a Founder and Co-Director of the Economic & Social Rights Empowerment Initiative, a joint project with SSRC.

Dr. Lawson-Remer's research addresses opportunity and exclusion in the global economy, including economic development and poverty, natural resources, global economic governance, property rights, emerging economies, fragile states, inclusive growth, and rule of law. She has written numerous academic research articles on these issues, and worked and conducted field studies in Latin America, North and East Africa, Asia, and the South Pacific. She is co-creator of the social & economic rights fulfillment (SERF) index and author of the forthcoming book Fulfilling Economic & Social Rights (with Sakiko Fukuda-Parr and Susan Randolph, Oxford University Press).

Long a committed civic leader, Dr. Lawson-Remer previously worked as an organizer, action coordinator, and consultant for a variety of grassroots environmental and social justice organizations, including Amnesty International USA, the New York Civil Liberties Union, Ruckus, the United Farm Workers, and the Rainforest Action Network. She was a lead plaintiff in an ACLU lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of San Diego's youth curfew ordinance, which the Ninth Circuit agreed was unconstitutional and overturned in 1997. At Yale she co-founded STARC: Students Transforming and Resisting Corporations, a national student organization that advocated for corporate social responsibility and played a pivotal role in winning greater transparency and strengthening environmental and social safeguards at the WTO and World Bank.

Dr. Lawson-Remer is a regular contributor to the Huffington Post and author of the forthcoming book Fulfilling Social & Economics Rights (with Fukuda-Parr and Randolph, Oxford University Press, 2012). Some of her recent academic publications and working papers include: Security of Property Rights for Whom?; Do Stronger Collective Property Rights Improve Household Welfare? Evidence from a Field Study in Fiji; A Role for the International Finance Corporation in Integrating Environmental & Human Rights Standards into Core Project Covenants: A Case Study of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan Oil Pipeline Project; Property Insecurity, Growth, & Conflict; Integrating Environmental, Social and Governance Issues into Institutional Investment: A Handbook for Colleges and Universities; An Index of Social & Economic Rights Fulfillment: Concept & Methodology; and NAFTA, GATS, and the Propertization of Resources.

She earned her B.A. from Yale University; her J.D. from New York University School of Law, where she was awarded a full tuition Dean's Merit Scholarship; and her Ph.D. with a concentration in Political Economy from New York University's Law & Society Institute.

Peter Lucas has taught at Columbia University, New York University, and The New School. His research and teaching focuses on international studies in human rights, human rights and photography, human rights and media, the poetics of witnessing, peace education, human rights education, and documentary practice. His current projects include a study of seven photojournalists for the Rio-based web portal, Viva Favela. His book, Viva Favela: Photojournalism, Visual Inclusion, and Human Rights in Brazil is forthcoming.

Lucas was awarded a prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship for 2011 for his feature-length documentary The Last Hour of Summer, about pre-dictatorship Ipanema in the early 1960s.

Mila Rosenthal is a human rights advocate with a long international career spanning many countries and issues. Currently, she is working on a project with economists, including the New School's Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, on methodologies for measuring economic and social rights fulfillment. Recently she served as the Executive Director of HealthRight International, a global organization working to build lasting access to health for excluded communities. Before that, at Amnesty International USA, she developed global campaigns on a wide range of issues including international justice, freedom of speech and religion, the right to health, and stopping violence against women, and pioneered AIUSA's advocacy on the human rights responsibilities of companies.

Previously, Mila lived and worked throughout East Asia. She served in the UN peacekeeping mission in Cambodia and worked to build civil society there. She researched the lives of women workers in textile factories in Vietnam for her PhD in social anthropology from the London School of Economics and advocated on labor rights in several countries. She has written extensively about the social impact of globalization on women, taught at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs, and currently serves on the Board of the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre.

Everita Silina completed her Ph.D. degree at the Political Science Department at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University. Her research interests include theories of justice, representation and democracy in post-national context, political economy and theories of integration, the European Union and the politics of Europeanization, human rights and international law. Currently she is working on a project with Sheri P. Rosenberg at the Program in Holocaust and Human Rights Studies, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law that reassesses the concept of genocide by combining international law, human rights and political spheres of inquiry. She has co-authored a study called Genocide by Attrition. Everita has also chaired the IFP summer program in Hong Kong.