UNESCO Chair&Institute of Comparative Human Rights

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	Comparative Human Rights Lecture Series he UNESCO Chair has established a regular lecture series that brings to the University a wide array of human rights scholars, educators, advocates, and policy makers, to address human rights issues from historical and global perspectives.

	Reitumetse Mabokela Thursday, September 23, 2004 University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT Reitumetse Obakeng Mabokela is an assistant professor in the higher, adult, and lifelong education program in the Department of Educational Administration at Michigan State University. Her research examines race, ethnicity and gender issues in post-secondary education; institutional transformation and its impact on the mobility of women to leadership positions; organizational culture and its impact on historically marginalized groups, specifically African American or people of African descent in predominantly white institutions. She also maintains an active research agenda in South Africa where her research explores issues of gender and institutional transformation. Dr. Mabokela received her Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

	Penelope Andrews Thursday, October 7, 2004 University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT Penelope Andrews was born in Cape Town, South Africa, and received her B.A. and LL.B. degrees from the University of Natal in Durban. She worked at a public interest law firm in Johannesburg before pursuing graduate studies at Columbia University, where she received an LL.M. degree. She spent a brief period at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund in New York before being appointed the Chamberlain Fellow in Legislation at Columbia Law School. Prior to joining the faculty at CUNY, she taught anti-discrimination law and policy, and classes in Aboriginal Law in Melbourne, Australia. She has also visited at the University of Maryland, where she taught a comparative South African/American course on Race and the Law, and at Albany Law School, where she was the Kate Stoneman Fellow. She has written extensively on human rights issues in the South African and Australian contexts, and appears frequently on panels addressing issues of international human rights, women, and black people. She is active in a variety of international human rights and peace organizations, serving, for example, as vice president of the South African-American Organization and is a contributing editor of The South African Constitution and the Enforcement of Rights. She is the co-editor of The Post-Apartheid Constitutions: Reflections on South Africa’s Basic Law.

	Carol Anderson Thursday, October 21, 2004 University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT Carol Anderson, an Associate Professor at the University of Missouri, is particularly intrigued with the ways that domestic and international policies intersect and weave their way through the issues of race, justice, and equality. This has led her to research and write on the question of the United Nations and international human rights and their tangled relationship with the struggle for black equality in the United States. She is now exploring the role of the NAACP in fighting for the liberation of peoples of color in Africa and Asia. To date, her research has garnered substantial support from the American Council of Learned Societies, the Ford Foundation, the Eisenhower Foundation, and the Council for Institutional Cooperation. Dr. Anderson received an A.B. and M.A. from Miami University, and her Ph.D. from Ohio State University. Back to the top>>