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The Gladstein Visiting Professor is a distinguished scholar
with an international standing in the study of human rights, who spends
one semester each year at UConn. During that time, he or she delivers
a major public lecture, teaches a seminar in his or her specialty,
and consults with the faculty about the direction of UConn's human
rights program and about developing new courses in human rights.
Enquiries regarding the Visiting Professorship can be
made to the Chair of the Gladstein Committee, Professor Richard A.
Wilson, humanrights@uconn.edu.
Zakes Mda is a South African writer of plays, novels, poems, and articles
for academic journals and newspapers. His creative work also includes
painting works of art, theatre and film productions.
He has won numerous awards for his work, including the 2005 Notable Books
Award of the American Library Association and the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize
for the Africa Region and the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Legacy
Award.
He divides his time between South Africa and the United States, working
as a professor of creative writing at Ohio University, a beekeeper in
the Eastern Cape, a dramaturge at the Market Theatre, Johannesburg, and
a director of the Southern African Multimedia AIDS Trust in Sophiatown,
Johannesburg.
David P. Forsythe
Dr. Ruti Teitel, New York Law School
Dr. Elizabeth Jelin, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Dr. Michael Freeman, University of Essex, UK
Dr.
Celina Romany, Inter-American University School of Law, Puerto Rico
Dr. Leslye Obiora
Marsha Lilien Gladstein Visiting Professor of Human Rights
Dr. Jack Donnelly
Marsha Lilien Gladstein Visiting Professor of Human Rights
Dr. Rhoda Howard-Hassmann
Marsha Lilien Gladstein Visiting Professor of Human Rights
Dr. Wiktor Osiatynski
Marsha Lilien Gladstein Visiting Professor of Human Rights
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Forthcoming Visiting Gladstein
Professors
Previous Distinguished Visiting
Gladstein Professors
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