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Education
- B.A., St. Michael's College (1981)
- M.A. (1983) and Ph.D (1987), University of Virginia.
Research and Teaching Areas
Sociological theory, sociology of knowledge, sociology of culture, mass media and communication, and sociology of communist and post-communist culture, human rights.
Biography
Thomas Cushman is Professor of Sociology at Wellesley College. His areas
of study include human rights, comparative sociology, genocide, and the
sociology of culture. He is the author of numerous books and articles on
topics ranging
from cultural dissidence in Russia, freedom of expression, and the wars
in Bosnia and Hercegovina and Iraq. His most recent publications include
A Matter
of Principle: Humanitarian Arguments for War in Iraq, editor (University
of California Press, 2005), Terror, Iraq and the Left: Christopher Hitchens
and His Critics, edited with Simon Cottee (New York University Press, 2008),
The Religious in Response to Mass Atrocity, edited with Thomas Brudholm
(forthcoming
in 2009 with Cambridge University Press); and the Routledge International
Handbook of Human Rights (forthcoming).
He is the Founding editor of Human Rights Review, and the founding editor, former
editor-in-chief and current editor-at-large of The
Journal of Human Rights. He
was an Associate at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard University
in 2002-2003, Siskind Visiting Professsor of Sociology and Internet Studies at
Brandeis University in 2002, Visiting Professor of Law at Birkbeck College, University
of London in 2005, and is a Fellow of the Salzburg Seminar Academic Core Session
on "International Law and Human Rights" chaired by Lloyd Cutler and
Sir Richard Goldstone. He is a Faculty Associate of the Center
for Cultural Sociology
at Yale University and an Honorary Research Associate at the University of the
Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. Professor Cushman was recently selected
as the recipient of the Saint Michael's College Academic Hall of Fame Award,
which is given to recognize those graduates whose scholarship has exemplified
the academic, cultural, and civic scholarly goals of the College.