Kathryn Sikkink

Kathryn Sikkink (born 1955[1]) is an author, human rights academic, and scholar of international relations working primarily through the theoretical strain of constructivism. She received her B.A. in international relations from the University of Minnesota and her M.A. and PhD in political science from Columbia University.

Academic career

Prior to her career at Harvard University, Sikkink previously served as a Regents Professor and the McKnight Presidential Chair of Political Science at the University of Minnesota.[2] Currently she is the Ryan Family Professor of Human Rights Policy and the Carol K. Pforzheimer Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. Sikkink studies international norms and institutions, transnational advocacy networks, the impact of human rights law and policies, and transitional justice.[3]

In 2008, Sikkink received a Guggenheim Fellowship.[2] In 2012, she won the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award for her book on international human rights titled The Justice Cascade, which discusses the origins and effects of human rights trials on geopolitics and global justice.[4][5] She is also the recipient of the Grawemeyer World Order Award for her book (with Margaret Keck) Activists Beyond Borders (1998). In 2017, Sikkink released the essay Evidence for Hope: Making Human Rights Work in the 21st Century, where she states that human rights institutions have been successful in their goals, despite their flaws and limitations, and will continue to deliver in the next years.[6][7]

References
  1. "Who is Kathryn Sikkink?". Omnilexica. Retrieved 10 September 2014.
  2. "Kathryn Sikkink". Blavatnik School of Government University of Oxford. Archived from the original on 17 December 2013. Retrieved 21 November 2013.
  3. "Harvard Kennedy School - Kathryn Sikkink". Harvard Kennedy School. Retrieved 19 August 2014.
  4. "2012: "The Justice Cascade," Kathryn Sikkink". Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights. Archived from the original on 13 December 2013. Retrieved 21 November 2013.
  5. "Kathryn Sikkink". Harvard Kennedy School. Retrieved 21 November 2013.
  6. Review – Evidence for Hope: Making Human Rights Work in the 21st Century - Daniel Braaten, E-International Relations, 7 April 2018
  7. What Are Human Rights Good For? - Mark Goodale, Boston Review, 19 July 2018
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