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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Student Work Refugees by Judy Wang Water Rights: an argument against damming the Brahmaputra River by Courtney Anne van Stolk Water Photostory by Emily Schloss Education Disparities in the United States by Colleen Cummings Illegal Immigration as a Symptom of Global Poverty by Emily Hogan Immigration in America by Elizabeth Knudson Global Hunger Photo Story [...]

Prospective and current graduate students can find useful information at the Vanderbilt University, Political Science web page for graduate students. Political Theory at Vanderbilt: Graduate students in political theory can find helpful information about the field requirements, classwork expectations, and a student directory of theorists on the webpage of the Political Theory Program. –Intellectual Life [...]

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, [...]

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. Ethical Review: The “Framework for Research Ethics and Evaluation: Justification and Guideline” is an evaluation framework for projects on gender and conflict, disaster, post-conflict, and post-disaster. It provides Institutional Review [...]

CHARTER OF THE UNITED NATIONS – Pdf Format THE INTERNATIONAL BILL OF HUMAN RIGHTS Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948 International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights 1966 International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights 1966 Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant [...]

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 [...]