Alison Brysk
American political scientist
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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.