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CSHR Board of Directors

Louis Henkin, Chair Emeritus
University Professor Emeritus,
Special Service Professor
School of Law

Andrew Nathan, Chair
Professor of Political Science
Columbia University

Sarah Cleveland
Louis Henkin Professor in Human and Constitutional Rights
School of Law


Director, Institute for African Studies & Professor of History
and Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures
Columbia University

Cheryl Franks
Executive Director of Diversity, Human Rights, and Social Justice
School of Social Work

Jennifer Hirsch
Associate Professor of Sociomedical Sciences
Mailman School of Public Health

Peter Juviler
Professor Emeritus of Political Science
Barnard College

Rachel McDermott
Professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Cultures
Barnard College


Associate Professor of History
Columbia University

Tonya Putnam
Assistant Professor of Political Science
Columbia University

Anupama Rao
Assistant Professor of History
Barnard College

Sanjay Reddy
Assistant Professor of Economics
Barnard College


Professor of English & Comparative Literature
Columbia University

Peter Rosenblum
Clinical Professor in Human Rights
School of Law


Associate Professor of English & Comparative Literature
Columbia University

Gayatri Spivak
University Professor
Columbia University

Michael Stanislawski
Nathan J. Miller Professor of Jewish History
Columbia University