Jan Knippers Black

Jan Knippers Black (born March 10, 1940)^[1] is an American professor of Human Rights, International and Comparative Politics of the Western Hemisphere, Women's Rights, and Globalization at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey.^[2]

Biography[]

Black is a specialist in international and grassroots development, international and comparative politics, and US foreign policy. Black has been leading the Middlebury Institute's human rights programs for two decades. Black received her PhD from the School of International Service at American University. She served on the board of directors at Amnesty International.^[3] from 2011-2019.

Black is the author of more than a dozen books that examine global politics and human rights. She has also served on more than two dozen governing and advisory boards, such as the Advisory Boards of International Political Science Association's Committee on Civil-Military Affairs; the PHD Fellowship Program of the US Inter-American Foundation; the Global Studies Program of California State University, San Jose.^[4]

In 2018, the Jan Knippers Black Fund for Human Rights Protection was launched to promote a speaker series, an alumni award, and the MIIS-Amnesty International USA Fellowship Program.^[5]

Publications[]

• (2010). The Politics of Human Rights Protection, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers INC, ISBN 978-0742540521
• (1999). Inequity in the Global Village: Recycled Rhetoric and Disposable People, Kumarian Press, ISBN 978-1565490994
• (1986). Dominican Republic: Politics and Development in an Unsovereign State, Unwin Hyman, ISBN 978-0044970019
• (1986). Sentinels of Empire: The United States and Latin American Militarism, Praeger, ISBN 978-0313251559

References[]

External links[]

• Middlebury Institute of International Studies Faculty