Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann, Wilfrid Laurier University

Rhoda Howard-Hassmann is Professor Emerita at Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada, where from 2003 to 2016 she held the Canada Research Chair in International Human Rights. Before that she taught in the Sociology Department at McMaster University, Canada for 27 years. She is the author or co-editor of twelve books, including most recently In Defense of International Human Rights (2018), State Food Crimes (2016), and The Human Right to Citizenship (2015). She has also published on such topics as women’s rights, gay and lesbian rights, multiculturalism, development (especially in Africa), economic and social rights, political apologies, and reparations (to Africa). She has won several academic awards for her work on international human rights, and is both a Member of the Order of Canada and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.