Human Development and Human Rights Faculty

Jane M. Conner, Associate Professor Emerita

PhD, University of Wisconsin

Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2002-2003

Jakob Feinig, Assistant Professor

MS, University of Vienna; PhD, °®¶¹´«Ã½ (SUNY)

Speciality: Sociology of money

Linda R. Forcey, Professor Emerita

PhD, °®¶¹´«Ã½ (SUNY)

 

Laura Hill, Associate Professor 

PhD, °®¶¹´«Ã½ (SUNY)

 

Suzy Kim Lee, Assistant Professor

BA, Columbia University; JD, Harvard Law School

Affiliated: Center for Korean Studies (CKS), Ellyn Uram Kaschak Institute for Social Justice for Women and Girls, Human Rights Institute (HRI)

Specialty: International labor migration; migration law and policy; economic development

David G. Nielson, Associate Professor Emeritus

PhD, °®¶¹´«Ã½ (SUNY)

 

Rene E. Rojas, Assistant Professor

BA, Harvard University; MA, University of Wisconsin at Madison; PhD, New York University

Specialty: Social movements; Latin American development; comparative political economy

Evelyn R. Rosenthal, Associate Professor Emerita

PhD, Cornell University

 

Chandiren Valayden, Assistant Professor

MA, PhD, University of California at Irvine

Affiliated: Human Rights Institute (HRI)

Specialty: Critical race theories; history of human rights; political and social theory

Marguerite Wilson, Associate Professor

BA, University of California at Santa Cruz; MA, PhD, University of California at Davis

 Affiliated: Institute for Justice and Well-Being (IJWB), Human Rights Institute (HRI)

Specialty: Educational inequalities; cultural contexts of child development; whiteness and privilege; ethnography and discourse analysis

Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2019-2020

Leo Wilton, Professor

BA, °®¶¹´«Ã½ (SUNY); MPH, University of Massachusetts at Amherst; MA, PhD, New York University

Affiliated: Human Rights Institute (HRI), Latin American and Caribbean Area Studies Program (LACAS), Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (WGSS)

Specialty: Health disparities and inequities (HIV prevention and care); Black psychological development and mental health; critical community based participatory research; multi- and mixed-methods research

Council/Foundation Award, 2021; Provost's Award for Faculty Excellence in Undergraduate Research Mentoring, 2019-2020; Chancellor's Award - Excellence in Scholarship & Creative Activities, 2018-2019; Chancellor's Award - Excellence in Teaching, 2011-2012

Kevin N. Wright, Professor Emeritus

PhD, Pennsylvania State University

 

George S. Yonemura, Lecturer Emeritus

MSW, Columbia University

 

Denise G. Yull, Associate Professor

BS, University at Buffalo (SUNY); MA, EdD, °®¶¹´«Ã½ (SUNY)

Affiliated: Human Rights Institute (HRI), Institute for Justice and Well-Being (IJWB)

Specialty: Black education; critical race theory; educational disparities in marginalized communities; parent engagement research and practice using a critical race theory lens; racialized school discipline

Provost’s Award for Excellence in Community-Engaged Scholarship, 2019-2020; Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2017-2018