Book Talk by Professor Shareen Hertel Tethered Fates: Companies, Communities and Rights at Stake
Wednesday, February 19
12:15-1:30 pm | Oak 438
Free and Open to the Public
Hosted by the Department of Political Science and the Human Rights Institute
About the Speaker: Dr. Hertel is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Connecticut, jointly appointed with the Human Rights Institute. Her research focuses on changes in transnational human rights advocacy, with a focus on labor and economic rights issues. Hertel has served as a consultant to foundations, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and United Nations agencies in the United States, Latin America and South Asia. She has conducted fieldwork in factory zones along the US-Mexico border, in Bangladesh’s garment manufacturing export sector, among NGO networks in India, and in the multilateral trade arena. Hertel is editor of The Journal of Human Rights and is co-editor of the International Studies Intensives book series.
For more information, contact: Thomas Hayes at thomas.hayes@uconn.edu