Professor Ackerly’s research interests include democratic theory, feminist methodologies, human rights, social and environmental justice. She integrates into her theoretical work empirical research on activism. Her publications include Political Theory and Feminist Social Criticism (Cambridge 2000), Universal Human Rights in a World of Difference (Cambridge 2008), and Doing Feminist Research with Jacqui True (Palgrave Macmillan more »

In addition to numerous articles and book chapters, Professor Ackerly is the author of Doing Feminist Research with Jacqui True (Palgrave 2010), Universal Human Rights in a World of Difference (Cambridge 2008), and Political Theory and Feminist Social Criticism (Cambridge 2000).  She has also edited, with Maria Stern and Jacqui True, Feminist Methodologies for International more »

Passersby who look up at the mural will not understand all of the symbolism immediately-and that is just the way the artist planned it. “I want people to take from it whatever they do,” said Sargent. “Each time they look at it, they will see something new.” She added, “I’m trying to get to all more »

Included here are documents and manuals which are helpful for writing political theory papers, tips for reading theory, templates for class notes, among other things. Undergraduates should feel free to use these as helpful guidelines and resources. The following list is the current course rotation schedule…

–Intellectual Life at Vanderbilt– Housed at the Law School is the Vanderbilt Climate Change Network, which consists in a team of faculty and graduate students who are conducting theoretical and applied research on one of the most important and most widely overlooked sources of greenhouse gases: individual and household behavior. The Climate Change Research Network is affiliated more »

Resources for research: The Global Feminisms Collaborative:  the website has research resources, including the Global Feminisms Collaborative Research Ethics Statement.  ”What is Happening to Donor Support for Women’s Rights?” in Contestations / dialogues on womens’ empowerment: This e-journal is an initiative of the Pathways of Women’s Empowerment Research and Communications Programme – a collaborative initiative of BRAC University in Bangladesh, more »

Evaluation is an important function of feminist research, whether for scholarship, for assessment of grantmaking and social investment, for organizational learning, and for movement learning.

Human Rights & Human Welfare runs review essays and book notes, as well as hosting roundtable discussions to which Professor Ackerly contributes. See her contributions below. “A Rights Based Approach to Global Justice”…

One area of collaborative work in progress is global justice and environmental stress. There are good reasons for those in national and international leadership to be concerned with the migration induced by climate change and other environmental stressors. Individual and community decisions to migrate or to adapt to a deteriorating or vulnerable environment are deeply more »