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Publications and grants

Global Human Rights Hub

Books from Hub members

Articles published by Hub members

Article title	Journal or publication	Author	Date
Human Rights Treaty Derogation and COVID-19: WHO Guidance and State Response	Global Constitutionalism	Audrey L. Comstock	January 14, 2026
Humanitarianism	Open Encyclopedia of Anthropology	Pedro Silva Rocha Lima, Malay Firoz	October 18, 2025
Officer Safety Time: Police Scenario Training and Thinking Threat First	Cultural Anthropology	Jessica Katzenstein	August 15, 2025
Incubating Futures: Temporal Violence, Durable Solutions and the Anti-Refugee Machine	Migration & Society	Hera Jay Brown, Malay Firoz, Nathalie Peutz, Jennifer Riggan	June 1, 2025
They are Hiding the Truth and Plotting: Conspiracy Beliefs Among Latinos	Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics	Kenicia Wright et al.	April 4, 2025
Derogations, Democratic Backsliding, and International Human Rights During the COVID-19 Pandemic	Journal of Human Rights	Audrey L. Comstock et al.	February 27, 2025
Pathways for Social Equity: Bureaucratic Representation, Diversity Management, and Cultural Competency in Florida Nursing Homes	Journal of Social Equity and Public Administration	Austin M. McCrea, Kenicia Wright, et al.	January 2, 2025
Quantifying Vulnerability: Humanitarian Datafication and the Neophilia of Integrated Power	Cultural Anthropology	Malay Firoz	August 15, 2024
A Call for a Sociology of Adaptation	Sociological Forum	Danielle Falzon, Raka Sen	May 13, 2024
Child Victims and the Punishment of UN Peacekeepers for Sexual Exploitation and Abuse	International Studies Quarterly	Audrey L. Comstock	April 27, 2024
Laundering Militarization: Preparedness, Professionalism, and Police Common Sense	American Quarterly	Jessica Katzenstein	December 1, 2023
Salt in the Wound: Embodied Everyday Adaptations to Salinity Intrusion in the Sundarbans	Ecology & Society	Raka Sen	June 15, 2023
Looking Beyond Ratification: Autocrats’ International Engagement with Women’s Rights	Politics & Gender	Audrey L. Comstock, Andrea Vilán	March 16, 2023
Epistemics of Aid: Toward a Liminal Critique of Resilience in the Syrian Crisis	Humanity Journal	Malay Firoz	January 18, 2023
The UN Voluntary Compact and Peacekeeping Abuse: Assessing a Soft Law Solution for Sexual Exploitation and Abuse	The International Journal of Human Rights	Audrey Comstock	October 17, 2022
Legislative veto players and human rights treaty signature timing	The Journal of Legislative Studies	Audrey Comstock	September 20, 2022
“Justice Futures”: Forensic Investigation and the Potential for Transformation in Eritrea	Modern Africa	Tricia Redeker Hepner	August 25, 2022
Adapt or Die? Resilience Discourse and the Shifting Contours of Humanitarian Morality	Co-herencia	Malay Firoz	June 17, 2022
An Application of the Theory of Representative Bureaucracy, Gender Concordance, and Symbolic Representation in the Health Care Context	American Review of Public Administration	Kenicia Wright	November 16, 2021
Fault Lines of Religion and Violence in Eritrea and Ethiopia	The Berkley Forum	Tricia Redeker Hepner	July 19, 2021
Biden said he’ll work to advance transgender rights. Here are 4 things to know.	The Washington Post	Audrey Comstock and Kassandra Miller	December 10, 2020
Ignore the Noise Arizonians, and Vote with Confidence. Your Vote is Secure.	AZ Central	Lisa Sanchez, Heather Smith-Cannoy, Stephen Nuño-Perez and Lori Poloni-Staudinger	November 2, 2020
Are women leaders better at fighting the coronavirus?	The Washington Post	Jennifer M. Piscopo and Kendall Funk	August 26, 2020
We Need Women’s Leadership More Than Ever During COVID-19	The Gender Policy Report	Kendall D. Funk	March 30, 2020
When everyone agrees: Human rights norms on women and children and their effects on health	The International Journal of Human Rights	Heather Smith-Cannoy, Wendy H. Hong, Arjumand Siddiqi, Christopher Tait & Abtin Parnia	March 30, 2020
Más mujeres en la política exterior mexicana	Milenio	Jennifer M. Piscopo y Magda Hinojosa	March 3, 2020

Grants received by Hub members

Arizona State University, Institute for Social Science Research and the Humanities Institute Seed Grant ($5,578)

PI: Jessica Katzenstein
Awarded 2025.

National Science Foundation, SBE Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (NSF SPRF) 2022–24 ($138,000)

PI: Jessica Katzenstein, co-PIs: Tricia Redeker Hepner and Heather Smith-Cannoy.
Awarded 2022.

Wenner-Gren Foundation Workshop Grant

Tricia Redeker-Hepner.
Awarded June 2022.

Human Rights on the Edge: The Future of International Human Rights Law and Practice

PI: Heather Smith-Cannoy, Co-PIs: Tricia Redeker Hepner, Magda Hinojosa, Audrey Comstock, Kendall Funk.

National Science Foundation Conference Grant ($33,160)

Awarded 2020.