1 Shawna E. Sweeney Assistant Professor Department of Policy ...

Inaugural Affiliate Participant at the University of Connecticut Human RightsInstitute’s Economic Rights Working Group Annual Workshop, Business and HumanRights, April 13 – 14, 2012.“Gender Inequalities and Vulnerability to HIV/AIDs: A Cross-national Analysis,”(with Dr. Robert L. Ostergard, University of Nevada at Reno). International StudiesAssociation Annual Convention, San Diego, CA, April 1-4, 2012.Inaugural Affiliate Participant at the University of Connecticut Human RightsInstitute’s Economic Rights Working Group Annual Meeting, “Economic RightsMeasurement Efforts,” April 2009-April 2010.Discussant on “Women in Motion: Advances and Setbacks in ImplementingWomen’s Rights”. Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association,Toronto, Canada, August 2009.“Institutional Secularism, Religiosity, and Women's Rights Attainment” Paperpresented at the Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association, New York,February 2009.Discussant on Panel entitled “Human Rights - Vulnerable Populations”. The AnnualMeeting of the International Studies Association, New York, February 2009.Chair on Panel entitled “Human Rights - Vulnerable Populations”. The AnnualMeeting of the International Studies Association, New York, February 2009.“The Internationalization of State Policy and Women's Rights”. Paper presented atthe Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Boston, MA,August 2008.“On the Indivisibility and Interdependence of Basic Rights: An EmpiricalInvestigation” (with Lanse Minkler). Paper presented at the University ofConnecticut Human Rights Institute’s Economic Rights Working Group AnnualMeeting, April 12 – 13, 2008.Inaugural Affiliate Participant at the University of Connecticut Human RightsInstitute’s Economic Rights Working Group Annual Meeting, April 12 – 13, 2008.Inaugural Affiliate Participant at the University of Connecticut Human RightsInstitute’s Economic Rights Working Group Annual Meeting, April 20-22, 2007.“Globalization and the Internationalization of Women’s Rights.” Paper presented atthe Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Philadelphia, PA,September 2006.“Women’s Economic Rights: Measurement and Analysis.” Paper presented at the8