The Academic Freedom Committee gathers and distributes information on international studies scholars at risk.  We also work to raise awareness of the monitoring and advocacy efforts of peer professional organizations such as Scholars at Risk and the American Association for the Advancement of Science Human Rights Program.  We encourage members to bring information to the attention of our committee for dissemination via H-Net Human Rights.

The members of the Academic Freedom Committee are:

Alison Brysk (Chair) (abrysk [at] uci {dot} edu)  

Alison Brysk is Professor of Political Science and International Studies at the University of California, Irvine.  She is the author of The Politics of Human Rights in Argentina (1994), From Tribal Village to Global Village: Indian Rights and International Relations in Latin America (2000), Human Rights and Private Wrongs (2005), and Global Good Samaritans: Human Rights as Foreign Policy (2009).

Chandra Sriram

Mahmoud Monshipouri