daniel rothenberg - Arizona State University

DANIEL ROTHENBERG
PROFESSOR OF PRACTICE; EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, CENTER FOR LAW AND GLOBAL AFFAIRS
SANDRA DAY O‟CONNOR COLLEGE OF LAW, ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY
P.O. BOX 877906, TEMPE, AZ 85287-7906
CELL: (312) 618-3632; E-MAIL: DANIEL.ROTHENBERG@ASU.EDU
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
SANDRA DAY O‟CONNOR COLLEGE OF LAW, ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY
Professor of Practice and Executive Director, Center for Law and Global Affairs, 2010–present
Faculty Affiliate, Program on Law and Sustainability, 2011–present
Faculty Affiliate, Public Health Law and Policy Program, 2011–present
INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS LAW INSTITUTE, DEPAUL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF LAW
Managing Director for International Projects, 2007–2010
Director, Jeanne and Joseph Sullivan Program for Human Rights in the Americas, 2003–2010
Executive Director, 2006–2007
Deputy Executive Director, 2005–2006
Senior Research Fellow, 2003–2004
ORVILLE H. SCHELL, JR. CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS, YALE LAW SCHOOL
Senior Fellow, 2002–2003
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
Fellow, Michigan Society of Fellows, 1999–2002
Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, 1999–2002
Visiting Professor, Law School, 2001
DEPARTMENT OF CRIMINOLOGY, LAW AND SOCIETY, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, IRVINE
Visiting Professor/Student Recommended Faculty, 1998–1999
DESIGN, MANAGEMENT, FUNDRAISING FOR HUMAN RIGHTS AND RULE OF LAW PROJECTS
PROJECT DESIGN – Designed, developed and implemented human rights and rule of law projects
including: documentation and analysis of thousands of testimonies of political violence in Iraq;
grassroots legal clinics for indigenous peoples in Mexico; interdisciplinary gender justice training;
foreign university legal clinics; transitional justice in Latin America; training NGOs to document
human rights violations; and institutional reform and capacity building in Afghanistan and Iraq.
PROJECT MANAGEMENT – Extensive experience managing international projects including
responsibility for supervising 30-65 staff working in the U.S., the Middle East and Latin America.
FUNDRAISING – Prepared over 85 grant proposals and concept papers; raising over $15.4 million
between 2004 and 2011 through grants from government agencies and private foundations.

PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS AND SELECTED CONSULTANCIES
RULE OF LAW PROJECT IN AFGHANISTAN, ITALIAN MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS
Senior Justice Consultant – Conducted field research and co-authored report on rule of law
programming in Afghanistan, 2007
UNITED NATIONS INDEPENDENT EXPERT FOR HUMAN RIGHTS IN AFGHANISTAN
Special Assistant – Conducted field research and assisted in the preparation of reports presented
to the General Assembly and the Human Rights Commission, 2004-2005
BURMA PROJECT, OPEN SOCIETY INSTITUTE
Project Coordinator – Prepared human rights, democracy, gender, health and governance training
program for activists and young leaders in Burma, 2002-2003
CHESHIRE CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTION
Instructor – Designed and taught philosophy course for inmates at a CT state maximum security
prison, 2003
EXPERT WITNESS
Prepared written and oral testimony for labor cases and political asylum claims, 1998-present
CENTER FOR DOCUMENTARY STUDIES, DUKE UNIVERSITY
Invited Researcher – Conducted fieldwork and prepared analysis on communities along the
U.S./Mexico border for a book and traveling museum exhibition, 1999
HEARTLAND ALLIANCE FOR HUMAN NEEDS AND HUMAN RIGHTS
Consultant – Conducted research and writing on international development and migration, 1998
NORTH/SOUTH INSTITUTE
Consultant – Prepared fieldwork based development project evaluation for multiple programs in
Guatemala and Peru funded by the Norwegian government, 1997–1998
GUATEMALAN COMMISSION FOR HISTORICAL CLARIFICATION
Assistant to the Commissioners – Conducted research and helped set up the Guatemalan truth
commission, 1997
MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS INTERNATIONAL
Consultant – Conducted project research and evaluation for democracy and governance
programming in Central America, 1997
EDUCATION
ABD, ANTHROPOLOGY, UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
MA, ANTHROPOLOGY, UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
BA, SEMIOTICS, BROWN UNIVERSITY
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PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS
Memory of Silence: Report of the Guatemalan Truth Commission. Daniel Rothenberg, Ed. New York:
Palgrave. Forthcoming 2012.
Memoria del Silencio: Versión Editada del Informe de la Comisión para el Esclarecimiento Histórico. Daniel
Rothenberg, Ed. Guatemala: F y G Editores. Forthcoming 2012.
Drones, Remote Targeting and the Promise of Law. Peter Bergen and Daniel Rothenberg, Eds. New York:
Cambridge University Press. Forthcoming 2012.
The Chicago Principles on Post-Conflict Justice. Executive Editor. Chicago: International Human Rights
Law Institute. 2008.
Testimonies. Editor and Project Director. Chicago: International Human Rights Law Institute. 2007.
(also available in Arabic and Kurdish).
With These Hands: The Hidden World of Migrant Farmworkers Today. Berkeley: University of California
Press. 2000.
ARTICLES, BOOK CHAPTERS AND REVIEWS
“Field-Based Methods of Research on Human Rights Violations”. Annual Review of Law and Social
Science. Volume 9. Forthcoming 2013.
“Genocide”. In Encyclopedia of Race and Racism, 2 nd edition. Patrick Mason, Editor in Chief. New York:
MacMillan Reference. Forthcoming 2012.
“Facing La Violencia: The Importance of the Guatemalan Truth Commission” and “‟No room for
despair‟: The Impact of the CEH”. In Memory of Silence: Report of the Guatemalan Truth Commission,
Daniel Rothenberg, Ed. New York: Palgrave. Forthcoming 2012.
“Sierra Leone Truth and Reconciliation Commission”. In Encyclopedia of Transitional Justice, Lavinia
Stan and Nadya Nedelsky, Eds. New York: Cambridge University Press. Forthcoming 2012.
“Violence and Troubling Truth – Post-Invasion Iraq and the Problems of Human Rights Data”. In
Uses and Misuses of Human Rights, George Andreopoulos and Zehra Arat, Eds. New York: Columbia
University Press. Forthcoming 2012.
Review of “The Reckoning: The Battle for the International Criminal Court”. Visual Anthropology
Review. Vol. 26, No. 1. 2010.
“Summary and Recommendations of the Regional Conference, San Jose, Costa Rica”. In The Pursuit
of International Criminal Justice: A World Study on Conflicts, Victimization, and Post-Conflict Justice, M. Cherif
Bassiouni, Ed. Brussels: Intersentia NV. 2010.
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“Los Linchamientos: Crime, Popular Justice and Human Rights Discourse during Guatemala‟s
Democratic Transition”. In Lugares indigenas de la violencia en Iberoamérica, Julian López Garcia and
Pedro Pitarch Ramón, Eds. Madrid: Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional. 2009.
“The Iraq History Project – Understanding the Psycho-Social Impact of Systematic Human Rights
Violations”. DePaul University Journal of Health Law. Vol. 11, No. 3. 2008.
Contributor, Visualizing Social Science – Photography by Rachel Tanur. New York: Social Science Research
Council. 2008.
Book review, Guilty Pleas in International Criminal Law: Constructing a Restorative Justice Approach.
International Journal of Transitional Justice. 2008.
“Farmworker Social Movements”. In Encyclopedia of Rural America. 2 nd Ed. New York: Grey House
Publishers. 2008.
“Genocide” In International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, 2 nd Ed. Ed.-in-Chief, William A. Darity.
New York: Thompson Gale. 2006.
“Genocide”. In Encyclopedia of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity. Eds. Dinah L. Shelton, Howard
Adelman, Frank Chalk, Alexandre Kiss and William A. Schabas. New York: Macmillan Reference.
2005.
“„What We Have Seen Has Been Terrible‟ Public Presentational Torture and the Communicative
Logic of State Terror”. Albany Law Review. Vol. 67, No. 2. 2003.
“„Towards a New Modern Developed Nation‟ Thoughts on a Possible Political Transition in
Burma”. The Journal of the International Institute. University of Michigan, Vol. 10, No. 1. 2002.
“„Let Justice Judge‟: An interview with Judge Baltasar Garzón and Critical Synthesis of His Ideas”.
Human Rights Quarterly, Vol. 24, No. 4. 2002.
“Burma‟s Future Democratic Transition: The Challenge of Legitimacy and the Necessity of Facing
Past Political Violence”. Human Rights Brief, Vol. 9, No. 2. 2002.
“Some Thoughts on „Communities of Experts‟” The Journal of the International Institute. University of
Michigan, Vol. 9, No. 1. 2001.
“Building on the Border”, In Local Heroes Changing America: Indivisible. NY: W.W. Norton. 2000.
“Globalization and the Reimagining of Borders,” The Journal of the International Institute. University of
Michigan, Vol. 8, No. 1. 2000.
“Los Linchamientos: Unraveling the Social and Political Significance of Mob Action in Guatemala”.
Native Americas. Vol. XV, No. 1. 1998.
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“Migrant Labor” and “Migrant Agricultural Unions”. In, The Latino Encyclopedia. Pasadena, CA:
Salem Press. 1996.
“Cuba During the „Special Period‟ - A Time of Crisis, An Uncertain Future, A Growing Interest in
Anthropology”. Anthropology Newsletter. 1995.
Review of Historical Change and Human Rights: The Oxford Amnesty Lectures. Kirkus. 1995.
SELECTED ESSAYS, REPORTS AND RESEARCH PROJECT MATERIALS
“Our World to Ashes” Testimonies of Political Violence in Iraq 2003-2008. With Ali Abbas Fadhil. Chicago:
International Human Rights Law Institute. 2011.
They Should Know How People Suffered”: Testimonies of Political Violence in Iraq 1968-2003. With Ali Abbas
Fadhil. Chicago, International Human Rights Law Institute. 2010.
“An Assessment of Justice Sector and Rule of Law Reform in Afghanistan and the Need for a
Comprehensive Plan”. With M. Cherif Bassiouni. Rome Conference on Rule of Law in Afghanistan.
2007.
“Written Comments on the Case of Las Dos Erres Massacre v. The Republic of Guatemala”. With
Daniel Thomann. Amicus Curiae brief submitted to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.
2009.
“Iraq History Project Radio Program CDs”. Project Director. 2007 – Thematic CDs in Arabic and
Kurdish covering: torture; massacres; perpetrators; “the uprisings”; Anfal campaign; long-term
impact of systematic violations; mutilation and amputation; Uday and Qusay Hussein; persecution of
religious figures; violence in the Marshes; rape and sexual violence; and, displacement.
“The Law Makes Us Feel Ashamed”. The Free Press. University of Denver. February. 2007.
“Institutionalizing Accountability: A Policy Paper on the Role of the United Nations in Improving
the Design, Implementation and Coordination of Post-Conflict Justice Policies.” With M. Cherif
Bassiouni. United Nations Foundation. 2004.
“Professional Development Program” – Four volume training on democracy, human rights, gender,
and public health. 2002-2003.
“Review of Mexican Labor Migration and Workers‟ Rights,” Report of Labor and Human Rights
Delegation, Heartland Alliance for Human Needs and Human Rights. 1998.
Evaluation of the Norwegian Program for Indigenous Peoples. Report for North-South Institute. June 1998.
“Strategies for Increased Citizen Participation in Strengthened Local Government in Guatemala”.
Report for Management Systems International, November 1997.
The Dam Project. InterFaith Hunger Appeal. New York. 1996.
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SELECTED POPULAR PRESS
“Trip to Baghdad”. TriQuarterly. Spring. 2009.
“God Is My Shelter”. Harper’s Magazine. February. 2009
“Trickling Down: In an oil-rich nation, Iraqis wait for their share.” Harper’s Magazine. April. 2006.
“What Went Right in Kurdistan.” Op-Ed. Chicago Tribune. January 23, 2006.
“The Army We Have”. Harper’s Magazine. March. 2005.
“„This Can‟t Last Forever‟: Burma‟s Crisis and Political Transition”. Kyoto Journal. Vol. 53. 2003.
“Agriculture‟s cynical answer to farm workers‟ poverty”. Op-ed. Chicago Tribune, Nov. 4, 1999.
Selections from With These Hands: The Hidden World of Migrant Farmworkers Today in Harper’s Magazine,
The Guardian (London), Grand Street, and other publications, 1998.
“Open Fields, Closed Doors: A Retrospective of Mexican Migration to the United States”. With
Susan Gzesh. The Mustard Seed. Summer 1998.
“The Struggle for the truth”. Op-ed. Chicago Tribune. May 4, 1998.
“I Hate to See the Potato Go: Migrant Farmworkers Tell Their Stories”. Terra Nova. Vol. 2, No. 2.
Spring 1997.
WORKS IN PROGRESS – BOOKS
Terror’s Meaning: A Comparative Study of the Conceptual Foundations and Radical Innovation of Truth
Commissions
I Pray Never Again to See What I Saw in My Beloved Sierra Leone – Popular Version of the Sierra Leone Truth
and Reconciliation Commission Report
WORKS IN PROGRESS – ARTICLES
“Knowing, Naming and Acting – The Need for Greater Rigor in Documenting Human Rights
Violations”
“The Iraq History Project – Creating a New Model for Large Scale Human Rights Documentation
and Analysis”
“Violence is Productive – Understanding the Economic Aspects of Systematic Political Violence in
Post-Invasion Iraq”
“Denial of Sexual Violence as State-Led-Organized Crime in Pre- and Post-Invasion Iraq,” With
John Hagan
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“State Rape: Government Organized Sexual Victimization as Crimes Against Public Health and
Humanity in Darfur and Pre-Invasion Iraq,” With John Hagan and Wenona Rymond-Richmond
“Los Linchamientos - Unraveling the Social and Political Significance of Mob Action Against
Presumed Criminals in Guatemala”
“Coming to Terms with Terror: Post-Conflict Rural Guatemala, the Legacy of Civil Defense Patrols
and the Ethics of Human Rights Discourse”
“Learning from Atrocity: How Past Human Rights Violations are Represented in Secondary School
Textbooks in Guatemala”
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Comparative Study of Truth Commissions
Genocide
Human Rights Discourse and the Impact of State Terror and Social Violence
Methodologies for Documenting and Analyzing Atrocities
Moral Panics and Informal Justice
Rule of Law, Human Rights and Governance Indicators
Transitional Justice
SELECTED COURSES DESIGNED AND TAUGHT
Transitional Justice, Sandra Day O‟Connor College of Law, Arizona State University, 2011
Transnational Law Practice, Sandra Day O‟Connor College of Law, Arizona State University, 2011
Colloquium in Transnational Law, Sandra Day O‟Connor College of Law, Arizona State University,
2010–2011
New Directions in the Latin American Human Rights Law, Democracy, and Economic Justice, DePaul
University College of Law, 2006, 2007
Facing Atrocity – Democracy, Human Rights and Transitional Justice in the Americas, DePaul University
College of Law, 2005, 2008, 2009
International Protection of Human Rights II, DePaul University College of Law, 2004
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Genocide, Tribunals and Truth Commissions, University of Michigan Law School, 2001
Violence and Social Order, Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan, 2001
Transitional Justice, Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan, 2000
American Sociolegal Theory, Department of Criminology, Law and Society, University of California,
Irvine, 1999
Comparative Legal Cultures, Department of Criminology, Law and Society, University of California,
Irvine, 1999
Truth Justice and Reconciliation, Department of Criminology, Law and Society, University of California,
Irvine, 1999
International Human Rights in Theory and Practice, Department of Criminology, Law and Society,
University of California, Irvine, 1998
Immigration, Law and Identity, Department of Criminology, Law and Society, University of California,
Irvine, 1998
Human Rights in Guatemala, Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago, 1998
FELLOWSHIPS AND INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH GRANTS
Individual Research Grant, United States Institute of Peace, 2005–2009
Visiting Fellow, Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Yale University, 2002
Rackham Award, University of Michigan, 2001
Rackham Interdisciplinary Institute Fellowship, University of Michigan, 2001
International Institute Seminar on Expertise, University of Michigan, 2001
Center for the Study of International Business Award, University of Michigan, 2000
Visiting Fellow, Advanced Studies Center, International Institute, University of Michigan. 1998
Visiting Scholar, Center for Latin American Studies, Stanford University, 1996
Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship, 1996
Council for Advanced Studies in Peace and International Cooperation Award, 1995
Century Fellowship, University of Chicago, 1992–1996
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CONFERENCES, WORKSHOPS AND PRESENTATIONS
SELECTED CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS ORGANIZED
Colloquium, Center for Law and Global Affairs Colloquium on International and Transnational
Law, Sandra Day O‟Connor College of Law, Arizona State University, 2011-2012 academic year
Workshop, Law and War: An International Humanitarian Law Workshop, Sandra Day O‟Connor
College of Law, Arizona State University, September 2011
Workshop, Documenting, Analyzing and Understanding Crises with a Focus on Atrocities, Sandra
Day O‟Connor College of Law, Arizona State University, May 2011
Conference, Combating Human Trafficking – How a Coordinating International, Federal and State
Law Can Prevent and Punish Exploitation While Protecting Victims, Sandra Day O‟Connor College
of Law, Arizona State University, March 2011
Workshop, Combating Human Trafficking, Sandra Day O‟Connor College of Law, Arizona State
University, March 2011
Conference, Drones, Remote Targeting and the Promise of Law: How Advances in Military
Technology are Transforming Conflict and Challenging Policy and Practice, New America
Foundation, February 2011
Colloquium, Center for Law and Global Affairs Colloquium on International and Transnational
Law, Sandra Day O‟Connor College of Law, Arizona State University, 2010–2011 academic year
Panel, Testimony, Truth, Politics and Atrocity Theoretical and Practical Challenges of
Documentation Human Rights Violations in Iraq, American Anthropological Association Annual
Meeting, December 2009
Conference, Domestic Security in Iraq, International Institute of Higher Studies in Criminal
Sciences, Siracusa, Italy, February 2006
Conference, The New Iraqi Constitution: Practical Aspects of Implementing Federalism,
International Institute of Higher Studies in Criminal Sciences, Siracusa, Italy, November 2005
Conference, Truth-Telling, Reparations, Memorialization, Education, and Other Post-Conflict
Justice Options for Iraq, International Institute of Higher Studies in Criminal Sciences, Siracusa,
Italy, June 2005
Conference, Legacies of Injustice: Race and Reconciliation in Post-Apartheid South Africa and the
Contemporary United States, University of Michigan, February 2002
Presidential Panel, What Can Anthropology Offer the Debate on Globalization?, American
Association of Anthropology Annual Meeting, November 2000
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Panel, Violence and the State, American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, December
1998
Panel, Investigating Terror: Recent Truth Commissions in Latin America, Latin American Studies
Association, September 1998
SELECTED PRESENTATIONS AT COLLOQUIA, CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS
Presenter, “Essential Tensions within Human Rights Data: The Case of Post-Invasion Iraq,”
Northwestern University Human Rights Project and Center for International Human Rights.
Northwestern University School of Law, October 2011
Presenter, “Large-Scale Human Rights Data Collection in a War Zone – The Iraq History Project,”
Documenting, Analyzing and Understanding Crises with a Focus on Atrocities, Sandra Day
O‟Connor College of Law, Arizona State University, May 2011
Discussant, “Indigenous Peoples and Cultural Rights” and “Using Human Rights Law in Novel
Ways,” Rights and Their Translation Into Practice: Toward a Synthetic Framework, Rogers College
of Law, University of Arizona, April 2011
Discussant, “From the Frontline: Building Rule of Law One Case at a Time by Promoting Women‟s
Rights,” Stopping Violence Against Women in Central America, City University of New York,
Lehman College, April 2011
Chair, “Prosecutor/Police Investigation and Working with Families and Victims to Enhance
Women‟s Participation,” New Pathways to Justice Workshop, City University of New York,
Lehman College, April 2011
Presenter, “The Truth of Testimony: Exploring the Value and Meaning of this Iconic Mode of
Documenting Human Rights Violations,” Testimony, Oral History and Human Rights
Documentation, Thomas J. Dodd Research Center, University of Connecticut, March 2011
Moderator, “Overview of Trafficking,” Combating Human Trafficking – How a Coordinating
International, Federal and State Law Can Prevent and Punish Exploitation While Protecting Victims,
Sandra Day O‟Connor College of Law, Arizona State University, March 2011
Participant, Combating Human Trafficking Workshop, Sandra Day O‟Connor College of Law,
Arizona State University, March 2011
Commentator, Workshop on New Developments in Transnational and International Law, Sandra
Day O‟Connor College of Law, Arizona State University, January 2011
Presenter, “Delivering Results: the Necessity and Challenges of Developing Meaningful Indicators
for Justice Sector Reform and Human Rights Monitoring,” International Development Strategies for
Rule of Law, International Development Law Organization, Rome, Italy, October 2010
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Presenter, “Violence and Troubling Truth – Responding to the Use and Misuse of Human Rights
Data within the Highly Contested Political Context of Post-Invasion Iraq,” Human Rights Program,
Columbia University, February 2010
Presenter, “The Dangers of Truth: Is it Possible for Human Rights Research to become More
Transparent?,” Workshop on New Developments in Transnational and International Law, Sandra
Day O‟Connor College of Law, Arizona State University, January 2010
Participant, On-line Invited Dialogue, Documenting Human Rights Violations: Choosing the Right
Approach, New Tactics in Human Rights, January 2010
Presenter, “Gathering Nine Thousand Interviews in a War Zone: The Iraq History Project,”
American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, December 2009
Participant, “Jeremy Deller: It Is What It Is: Conversations About Iraq,” Museum of Contemporary
Art, Chicago, IL, October–November, 2009
Presenter, “Making Sense of Political Violence in Iraq: The Challenge of Counting Victims,”
National University, Heredia, Costa Rica, August 2009
Presenter, “Violence is Productive: The Theoretical and Practical Importance of Documenting
Atrocities in Iraq,” Carr Center for Human Rights, Kennedy School, Harvard University, March
2009.
Presenter, “Iraq History Project: Right to Truth, Transitional Justice and Mass Data Collection in a
Conflict Zone,” University of Virginia Law School, March 2009
Presenter, “Understanding Torture‟s Logic: Lessons from a Large-Scale Human Rights
Documentation Project on Iraq under Saddam Hussein,” The Futures of Human Rights: Moral,
Political, and Legal Cultures, University of South Carolina, February 2009
Presenter, “Telling Trauma Stories: Reflections on Why Victims Speak About Atrocities and the
Truth Value of Testimonies,” Aftermath: Journalism, Storytelling and the Impact of Violence and
Tragedy, Neiman Foundation, Harvard University, February 2009
Presenter, “Reflecting on Transitional Justice: An Overview of the Chicago Principles on Post-
Conflict Justice,” Combating Impunity and Promoting Transitional Justice, Inter-American Institute
of Human Rights. San Jose, Costa Rica, February 2009
Presenter, “Violence is Productive: The Theoretical and Practical Importance of Documenting
Atrocities in Iraq,” DePaul University College of Law, November 2008
Presenter, “Understanding Political Violence in Contemporary Iraq,” Iraq at the Crossroads, Rutgers
School of Law, October 2008
Presenter, “The Human Rights Paradigm and Conflict,” On the Ground: What Role Does Religion
Play in Securing, Protecting or Violating Human Rights?, Nieman Foundation for Journalism,
Harvard University, May 2008
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Presenter, “Transitional Justice Issues in Post-Conflict Societies: The Debate Over Norms and
Definitions,” Northwestern University Conference on Human Rights, April 2008
Observer, Comprehensive Strategic Plan for Iraq‟s Criminal Justice System, Hurghada, Egypt, March
2007
Presenter, “The Law Makes Us Feel Ashamed: Farmworkers and Social Policy,” Association of
American Law Schools Annual Meeting, January 2007
Presenter, “Peace through Justice,” Chicago Humanities Festival, November 2006
Panellist, Domestic Security in Iraq, International Institute of Higher Studies in Criminal Sciences,
Siracusa, Italy, February 2006
Observer, Meeting of Experts on the UNODC Report on Trafficking in Human Beings, United
Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Vienna, Austria, January 2006
Moderator, “Comparative Federalism – Legal Insights from the United States and Germany,”
Practical Federalism in Iraq, International Institute of Higher Studies in Criminal Sciences, Siracusa,
Italy, November 2005
Presenter, “What Crisis? Some Reflections on Immigration and History,” Hispanic Challenge
Summit, Lexington, KY, November 2005
Presenter, “Truth-Telling: Overview” and “Truth Commissions: International Case Studies,” Truth-
Telling, Reparations, Memorialization, Education, and Other Post-Conflict Justice Options for Iraq,
International Institute of Higher Studies in Criminal Sciences, Siracusa, Italy, June 2005
Participant, Review of Rule of Law Projects in Iraq, United Nations Mission in Iraq and the
Embassy of Canada, Amman, Jordan, April, 2005
Keynote Speaker, “Farmworkers, Justice, and the Power of Stories,” Sowing the Seeds for Justice:
Justice for Farmworkers Campaign, Cathedral at St John the Divine, New York, NY, May 2005
Presenter, “Factional Tensions and the Importance of Federalism for Iraq‟s Future,” Federalism as
Strategy: Canadian and Other Constitutional Approaches to Managing Ethnic Conflict in Iraq,
Chicago-Kent College of Law, May 2005
Presenter, “Community Activism and the Inter-American Human Rights System,” Coalition to
Protect Public Housing Human Rights Forum, Chicago, IL, March 2005
Participant, Policy Group Meeting on the Establishment of a National Centre for Missing and
Disappeared Person in Iraq, United Nations Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights,
Amman, Jordan, January 2005
Participant, Mapping Human Rights Activities for Iraq, United Nations Office of the High
Commissioner on Human Rights, Geneva, Switzerland, December 2004
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Participant, Transitional Justice Workshop, Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights,
Geneva, Switzerland, September 2004
Presenter, “Transitional Justice and Legal Systems,” Interim Training Program for the Afghan
Judiciary, International Institute of Higher Studies in Criminal Sciences, Siracusa, Italy, July 2004
Observer, Afghanistan Human Rights Mapping Exercise, Office of the High Commissioner on
Human Rights, Geneva, Switzerland, July 2004
Presenter, “Was the Haitian Commission a Failure? Evaluating the Global and Local Meaning and
Reception of Truth Commission,” Northwestern University School of Law, April 2004
Panelist, Individual and Economic Freedom in Developing Democracies, Northwestern University
School of Law, March 2004
Presenter, “Responding to Genocide: Theoretical and Practical Issues,” Northwestern University.
February 2004
Presenter, “Human Rights and National Identification Cards,” School of the Art Institute of
Chicago, February 2004
Presenter, “Truth Commissions, Human Rights and the Representation of Severe Political
Violence,” Faculty Seminar, DePaul University College of Law, January 2004
Presenter, “Whose Interests? Whose Good Intentions? U.S. Foreign Policy in Guatemala, Then and
Now,” Northeastern Illinois University. November 2003
Presenter, “Post-Conflict Justice in Comparative Perspective: General Concepts and the Latin
American Experience,” DePaul University. November 2003
Presenter, “„What We Have Seen Has Been Terrible‟ Public Presentational Torture and the
Challenge of Defining Acts of Exceptional Cruelty,” Albany Law School, October 2003
Presenter, “Memory of Silence: A Review of the Guatemalan Truth Commission,” Northwestern
University School of Law, October 2003
Presenter, “Making Sense of Genocide: The Multiple Meanings of „The Ultimate Crime‟,” Genocide
Studies Program, Yale University, April 2003
Presenter, “A Question of Justice: American Farmworkers and the Farm Labor System in the New
Millennium,” University of Notre Dame, February 2003
Presenter, “Why We Should Celebrate the Small Victories: Guatemala‟s Law of National
Reconciliation and Human Rights as Globalization,” American Branch of the International Law
Association, N.Y. Bar Association, New York City, NY, October 2002
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Presenter, “Truth Commissions and Human Rights,” University of Connecticut Law School,
October 2002
Presenter, “Terror‟s Meaning: The Radical Innovation of Truth Commissions,” Yale Law School,
September 2002
Presenter, “Genocide and Truth Claims,” Stanford Law School, April 2002
Presenter, “Naming Evil: The Ethics Meaning and Usefulness of Emerging Genocide Claims,”
Workshop in International Law, University of Michigan Law School, April 2002
Panelist, Legacies of Injustice: Race and Reconciliation in Post-Apartheid South Africa and the
Contemporary United States. University of Michigan, February 2002
Presenter, “Reparations and Truth,” Society of Fellows, University of Michigan, March 2002
Presenter, “New Perspectives on Law and Social Science,” Association of American Law Schools
Annual Meeting, New Orleans, January 2002
Presenter, “Claiming Genocide: The Meaning and Usefulness of the Truth Commission‟s Argument
that Genocide Occurred in Guatemala,” Orville H. Schell, Jr. Center for International Human
Rights, Yale Law School, December 2001
Presenter, “How Is It Possible? Slavery in 21 st Century America,” Gilder Lehrman Center for the
Study of Slavery, Yale University, New Haven, December 2001
Keynote Address, “Levels of Awareness and the Violence of Farm Labor in America,” Farmworker
Awareness Conference, Catholic Diocese of Rochester, September 2001
Presenter, “Lessons from Guatemala‟s Transition from an Authoritarian to Democratic Regime,”
Charge d‟Affaire‟s Residence, U.S. Embassy, Rangoon, Burma, August 2001
Presenter, “Reconciliation, Reason and Religion”, Interrogating Reconciliation, Legacies of
Authoritarianism Research Circle, Ateneo de Manila University, Manila, Philippines, July 2001
Presenter, “Child Labor, Human Rights and the Injustice of Special Legislative Exemptions,” U.S.
Senate Hearing on Child Labor, May 2001
Presenter, “Truth Commissions and Human Rights Discourse,” Department of Anthropology, New
York University, March 2001
Keynote Address, “The Passion of Farmworker Advocates: Confronting Professionalism,
Formalism, and That of Which Law Cannot Speak,” National Migrant Advocacy Training
Conference, December 2000
Presenter, “What Can Anthropology Offer the Debate on Globalization?” American Association of
Anthropology Annual Meeting, November 2000
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Presenter, “Farmworkers as Poor People: A Case of Social Forgetting,” National Legal Aid and
Defender Association, November 2000
Presenter, “‟The Law Makes Us Feel Ashamed‟: The Meaning of Regulation and the Failure of Farm
Labor Policy,” Duke University School of Law, September 2000
Presenter, “Truth Commissions and Political Transitions,” Duke University School of Law,
September 2000
Panelist, Legacies of Authoritarianism Research Circle, Robben Island, South Africa, May 2000
Presenter, “Genocide in Guatemala? Understanding the Legal and Social Implications of Human
Rights Claims,” Between the Global and the Local: Making Human Rights Claims in the Twentieth
Century, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, April 2000
Presenter, “America‟s Migrant Farmworkers and Public Policy,” U.S. Capitol Building, March 2000.
Presenter, “Farmworkers and the Rest of Us: Lessons about Injustice, Representation and Politics,”
Bowling Green State University, October 1999
Presenter, “Invisible Hands: Farmworkers, Labor Migration and the Moral Challenges of the Global
Economy,” Western Michigan University, October 1999
Presenter, “The Politics and Symbolism of Guatemala‟s Truth Commission,” Law and Society
Association Annual Meeting, May 1999
Keynote Address, “Farmworkers, the Truth of Numbers and the Challenge of Confronting Systemic
Inequity,” National Farmworker Health Conference, Denver, CO, April 1999
Presenter, “Truth in the Face of Gross Violations of Human Rights: What Reconciliation Might
Mean in Guatemala after La Violencia,” University of California, San Diego, March 1999
Keynote Address, “The Structure of Exclusion and Powerlessness: America‟s Migrant Farmworkers,
Labor Systems, Poverty and Policy,” Association of Farmworker Opportunity Programs Annual
Meeting, San Diego, CA, January 1999
Presenter, “Coming to Terms with Terror: Post-Conflict Rural Guatemala, the Legacy of Civil
Defense Patrols and the Ethics of Human Rights Discourse,” American Anthropological
Association Annual Meeting, December 1998
Presenter, “Latin American Truth Commissions, Violence and Ethics”, Seminar on Violence and
Ethics, Advanced Studies Center, University of Michigan, November 1998
Presenter, “What is a Truth Commission? State Terror, Truth and Human Rights as Moral and Legal
Discourse,” Latin American Studies Association, September 1998
Presenter, “Farmworkers and the Impact of Transnational Migration,” Labor Studies Group,
University of California, Irvine, October 1998
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Presenter, “State Terror and Truth in Guatemala: Why Human Rights Discourse Needs the Social
Sciences,” Human Rights Program, University of Chicago, April 1998
SELECT RECENT MEDIA APPEARANCES
Ashley Fantz, Rape in wartime: Listening to the victims CNN, June 23 2011
Arizona Public Television, Horizonte, “Human Trafficking”, March 31, 2011
Arizona Public Television, Horizon, “ASU Human Rights Scholar”, August 26, 2010
Joe Sterling, “In Iraq, truth commission idea gains traction”, CNN, March 25, 2009
National Public Radio, All Things Considered, “Report Details Iraqi Stories of Abuse”, March 21, 2009
Chicago Public Radio, Worldview with Jerome MacDonnell, “Recording the Stories of Human Rights
Abuses in Iraq, February 11, 2009
FIELD RESEARCH
From 1995 through 2011, field research and projects in: Africa (South Africa, Tanzania); Central
America and the Caribbean (Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti);
Central Asia (Afghanistan); Mexico; the Middle East (Egypt, Iraq, Jordan); South America
(Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Peru and Uruguay); South Asia (Burma, Philippines, Thailand); and the
United States.
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
American Anthropological Association
Association for Political and Legal Anthropology
Dart Society
Advisory Council, Farmworker Justice
Law and Society Association
Latin American Studies Association
LANGUAGES
Fluent in Spanish
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