Jan Knippers Black

Jan Knippers Black (born March 10, 1940)^[1] is an American professor of Human Rights, International and Comparative Politics of the Western Hemisphere, Women's Rights, and Globalization at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey.^[2]

Biography

Professor Black is a specialist in international and grassroots development, international and comparative politics, and US foreign policy. Professor Black has been leading the Middlebury Institute's human rights programs for more than a decade. Professor Black received her PhD from the School of International Service at American University. She is a member of the board of directors at Amnesty International.^[3]

Professor Black is the author of several books that examine global human rights. She is also a member of the Advisory Boards of International Political Science Association's Committee on Civil-Military Affairs; the PHD Fellowship Program of the US Inter-American Foundation; the Global Studies Program of California State University, San Jose.^[4]

Publications

• (2010). The Politics of Human Rights Protection, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers INC, ISBN 978-0742540521
• (1999). Inequity in the Global Village: Recycled Rhetoric and Disposable People, Kumarian Press, ISBN 978-1565490994
• (1986). Dominican Republic: Politics and Development in an Unsovereign State, Unwin Hyman, ISBN 978-0044970019
• (1986). Sentinels of Empire: The United States and Latin American Militarism, Praeger, ISBN 978-0313251559

References

External links

• Middlebury Institute of International Studies Faculty