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Bethany Amal Barratt
Associate Professor of Political Science
Director, Joseph Loundy Human Rights Project                                                                                                     
Office:  876 (Auditorium Bldg.)
Phone: (312) 341-3768
Email: bbarratt@roosevelt.edu

Brief Biography
Publications

Spring 2009 Loundy Course Trip to London
Summer 2008: Kyrgyzstan Trip
Summer 2008: London Blog ("For there is in London all that life can afford")
Summer 2008: Loundy Project
May 2008: Cities at War Course Trip to London
Spring 2008 Courses
Other Courses Taught
Research, Teaching and Political Action Links
The Politics of Harry Potter

Personal Links and Images

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        
Brief Biography

Dr. Barratt earned her PhD from the University of California in 2002, and her BA in Political Science/History from Duke University in 1994. She is Director of Social Justice Programming for the Mansfield Institute for Social Justice and Transformation (http://www.roosevelt.edu/misj/testphi.html), and Director of the Joseph Loundy Human Rights Project, which joins forces with community partners in Chicago, London, and Jerusalem to draw and apply comparative lessons to make measurable gains in respect for human rights in urban settings, at home and abroad.

Professor Barratt conducts archival and field research in Central Asia, the UK, Canada, and Australia.  She is author of “Human Rights and Foreign Aid” (Routledge, 2007), the forthcoming "The Politics of Harry Potter" (Palgrave McMillan, 2009), and coeditor of the forthcoming "Public Opinion and War: Lessons from Iraq" (Potomac, 2009). She has also authored articles on human rights, foreign aid, US, British, Canadian, and Australian foreign policy, and counterterrorism, in Political Research Quarterly, The Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management, and edited volumes from Ashgate and Lexington Books. Besides her teaching experience at Roosevelt and the University of California, she has also taught in a number of jails and prisons.

She is an officer or member of several scholarly associations including the American Political Science Association, the International Studies Association, the Women's Caucus for International Studies, and the Midwest Political Science Association. She also edits the H-Net Human Rights List. For three years she was the campus coordinator of annual benefit productions of Eve Ensler’s The Vagina Monologues, which raises funds for local anti-domestic violence organizations.
 Publications

Books
  • 2007 (Routledge). Human Rights and Foreign Aid: For Love or Money?
  • Forthcoming (Palgrave McMillan).  The Politics of Harry Potter.
  • Under contract (Potomac). Public Opinion and the Iraq War (coeditor with Richard Sobel and Peter Furia).
Articles
  • Barratt, Bethany A. and Christian W. Erickson. 2007. "Response and Revenge: Terror, Counterterror, and Intolerance." Public Opinion Pros 2007:March. 
  • Barratt, Bethany A. 2007. “King Baudouin.â€�  In The Encyclopedia of the Cold War: A Political, Social, and Military History, ed. Spencer Tucker and Andrew McCormick.  Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO.
  • Bethany A.  2006. “Rhetoric and Reputation:  Human Rights  in Canadian Foreign Policy and Practice.â€�  In Handbook of Canadian Foreign Policy, ed. Patrick James, Nelson Michaud, and Marc O’Reilly. Lanham, MD:  Lexington Press.
  • Barratt, Bethany A. 2006. “Cecily Hamilton.â€�  In  Women and War: A Historical Encyclopedia from Antiquity to the Present . ed. Bernard Cook.  Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO.
  • Barratt, Bethany A. 2005. “Global Climate Change.â€�  In Globalization: Encyclopedia of Trade , Labor and Politics, ed. Ashish Vaidya.  Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO. 
  • 2004. "Aiding or Abetting?  Human Rights and British Foreign Aid Decisions." In Understanding Human Rights Violations: New Systematic Studies, ed. Sabine Carey and Steven Poe.  London: Ashgate.
  • With Christian Erickson. 2004. "Prudence or Panic? Preparedness Exercises, Counterterror Mobilization, and Media Coverage  Dark Winter, TOPOFF 1 and 2." Journal of Homeland  Security and  Emergency  Management, 1:4.
  • With Scott Gartner and Gary M. Segura. 2004. "War Casualties, Policy Positions, and the Fate of Legislators." Political Research Quarterly 53:3.
  • Forthcoming in chronological order
  • "Global Climate Change." Forthcoming in Encyclopedia of Globalization, ed. Ashish Vaidya.  Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO.
  • "King Baudouin." Forthcoming in Encyclopedia of the Cold War, ed. Spencer Tucker. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO.
  • "Cecily Hamilton." Forthcoming in Women and War: An Encyclopedia. Ed Bernard Cook. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO.

Research Interests:
politics and literature, human rights, foreign policy, international aid, political tolerance, gender, sexuality, international relations, media, politics and culture, international organizations


Summer 2008 Kyrgyzstan Trip
In July 2008 I was fortunate enough to travel to Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, on a grant from the International Research and Exchanges Board.
About Kyrgyztan: Kyrgyzstan is the smallest country in Central Asia, and is situated just south of Kazakhstan and west of China. Situated between the Kyrgyz Ala-Too and Pamir mountain ranges (part of the same range as the Himalayas), it is a place of breathtaking beauty but few marketable natural resources. Therefore, it is extremely vulnerable to pressure from neighbours such as China, Russia, and Kazakhstan, as well as (to a lesser extent) the West. It is also close to Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Turkmenistan.
What I was doing there: I researched the interaction between international development assistance and the process of democratisation, and counterdemocratisation, in the crucial Central Asian region.

More coming soon!



Classes Taught Spring 2009

Joseph Loundy Human Rights Course: Crossnational Approaches to Urban Human Rights: Police Abuse and Accountability in Chicago and London


Class Taught Fall 2008
Introduction to International Relations

Classes Taught Spring 2008

(Honors) Cities at War: Chicago and London

Sexuality, Gender, and International Human Rights

Introduction to International Relations

Other Courses Taught:
Problems in US Foreign Policy

American Politics

International Law: Human Rights

Graduate Seminar in Scope and Methodology

Graduate Seminar in International Relations




Research, Teaching, and Political Action Links

Amnesty International - campaigns for human rights worldwide

Tolerance.org: provides practical tools to promote tolerance

Info on women's human rights worldwide from the University of Toronto

The UK's Department for International Development

Canadian International Development Agency/Agence Canadienne de Developpement International

AusAID: The Australian International Development Agency

Pacifica Radio - promoting free speech &critical political analysis

American Political Science Association's Human Rights Section
Personal Links and Images (click on the giant prairie dog)