Visiting Professor/Practitioner Program
As part of our project on studying the use and potential of human rights law and discourse to address economic inequality and its structural causes, the Rapoport Center brought scholars or practitioners critically engaged with these issues to spend 1-2 weeks in residence at UT as a Visiting Professor/Practitioner (VPP). Though the project has ended and we no longer have a formal program, we are still interested in partnering with individuals who are interested and meet this criteria. For more information or to make a recommendation, please contact carolinehahn@austin.utexas.edu.
Past VPPs
Spring 2019: Dr. Serges Djoyou Kamga
Nominated by Toyin Falola (History)
- Exploring African Identity and Identity-based conflicts in the context of the St. MU History Media Project (panel chair)
- A New Form of Bondage in Africa: The Role of Contemporary International Law (panelist)
- Illicit Flows and Africa's Development
- The Protection of Disability Rights in Africa and its Implication for the Right to Development for Persons with Disabilities
To view photos from Dr. Kamga's visit, please click here.
Fall 2018: Dr. Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso
Nominated by Toyin Falola (History)
- Mothers, Mothering and Survival in a Post-conflict African Context
- The US and Other External Actors in the Liberian Conflict and Peace
- Respondent to Professor Michael Albertus on "Inequality and the Elite Origins of Democracy"
To view photos from Professor Yacob-Haliso's visit, please click here.
Spring 2018: Dr. Bonny Ibhawoh
Nominated by Toyin Falola (History)
- Nationalism, Socialism and Human Rights: Assessing the Leadership Politics of Kwame Nkrumah and Julius Nyerere
- Truth Commissions and the Politics of National Reconciliation: Limits and Possibilities for Post-Conflict Peace-building
Fall 2017: Elizabeth Doud
Nominated by Paul Bonin-Rodriguez (Theatre and Dance)
Spring 2017: Khushi Kabir
Nominated by Jason Cons (Anthropology)