Program Director 
Prof. James J. Silk, Binger Clinical Professor of Human Rights, Director, Schell Center 

 

 

Madeline Batt, Community Human Rights Fellow, Schell Center 

 

Program Administrator
Prof. Hope Metcalf, Lecturer in Law, Executive Director, Schell Center

 

 


Paul Linden-Retek, PhD Candidate in the Department of Political Science, Visiting Schell Fellow

Human Rights Studies Advisory Committee

Prof. Seyla Benhabib, Eugene Meyer Professor of Political Science and Professor of Philosophy

Prof. Ned Blackhawk, Professor of History and American Studies

Prof. Amity Doolittle, Senior Lecturer and Research Scientist, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies

Prof. Moira Fradinger, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature

Prof. Crystal Feimster, Associate Professor of African American Studies and American Studies and History

Prof. Inderpal Grewal, Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and American Studies; Chair of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Prof. Ben Kiernan, A. Whitney Griswold Professor of History; Founding Director of the Genocide Studies Program; Chair, Council on Southeast Asia Studies

Prof. Louisa Lombard, Associate Professor of Anthropology

Prof. Alice Miller, Associate Professor of Law, Yale Law School; Co-Director, Global Health Justice Partnership; Assistant Clinical Professor, School of Public Health

Prof. Samuel Moyn, Professor of History; Professor of Jurisprudence, Yale Law School

Prof. Jill Richards, Assistant Professor of English

Prof. David Simon, Senior Lecturer and Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Political Science; Director, Genocide Studies Program

Prof. Quan Tran, Lecturer, American Studies and Ethnicity, Race, & Migration

Prof. Elisabeth Wood, Professor of Political Science and International and Area Studies

Prof. Jonathan Wyrtzen, Associate Professor of of Sociology, History, and International Affairs

Talya Lockman-Fine (YC '15, YLS '20), Alumni Representative