The Carr Center’s Global LGBTQI+ Human Rights Program, recently launched this past May, aims to expand research and training to advance the human rights of LGBTQI+ people worldwide. Led by Carr Center Director Mathias Risse, Faculty Program Chair Timothy Patrick McCarthy, and Program Director Diego Garcia Blum, the program will address the escalating crisis of violence and discrimination against LGBTQI+ individuals and communities globally.
In an exciting new development, the program is delighted to announce its Founding Faculty Affiliates, a diverse coalition of distinguished scholars and practitioners across Harvard who will serve as an invaluable source of support with research, training, programs, convenings, and more.
“What an honor it is to bring together such an impressive community of leading scholars, teachers, and practitioners with a demonstrated commitment to advancing the rights, freedom, and dignity of LGBTQI+ peoples across the globe,” says McCarthy. “This is a historic moment for Harvard at a time of great urgency in the world. We hope and believe that these new and ongoing collaborations across school, discipline, expertise, and lived experience will help us transform human wrongs into human rights—for queer people and for all people.”
The Founding Faculty Affiliates represent eight schools across Harvard, showcasing both the need and the desire for a program that explores pressing LGBTQI+ human rights issues at an international level. LGBTQI+ rights touch all facets of our life and society, and the vast range of expertise of the Founding Faculty Affiliates shines a light on its cross-disciplinary and cross-sector importance, with faculty hailing from Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard Graduate School of Education, T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard Divinity School, Harvard Law School, Harvard Medical School, and Harvard Business School.
“I’m delighted and deeply humbled by the overwhelming support from our faculty,” says Garcia Blum. “Their wisdom and leadership will be an indispensable bedrock as we strive to equip the next generation of LGBTQI+ leaders with the tools they need to change the world.”
Below, you can learn more about the Founding Faculty Affiliates of the Carr Center’s Global LGBTQI+ Human Rights Program.
Founding Faculty Affiliates
Timothy Patrick McCarthy, Faculty Program Chair, Global LGBTQI+ Human Rights Program; Lecturer on Education, HGSE
Mathias Risse, Faculty Director, Carr Center; Berthold Beitz Professor in Human Rights, Global Affairs and Philosophy, HKS
Desmond Ang, Associate Professor of Public Policy, HKS
Jacqueline Bhabha, Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights, HSPH; Jeremiah Smith Jr. Lecturer in Law, HLS; Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy, HKS; Director of Research, FXB Center for Health and Human Rights
Gretchen Brion-Meisels, Senior Lecturer on Education, HGSE
Michael Bronski, Professor of the Practice in Media and Activism, FAS
Cornell William Brooks, Hauser Professor of the Practice of Nonprofit Organizations and Professor of the Practice of Public Leadership and Social Justice, HKS; Visiting Professor of the Practice of Prophetic Religion and Public Leadership, HDS
Erica Chenoweth, Frank Stanton Professor of the First Amendment, HKS
Brittany Charlton, Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Founding Director, LGBTQ Health Center for Excellence, HSPH; Associate Professor of Population Medicine, HMS
Alexander Chen, Lecturer on Law and Founding Director, LGBTQ+ Advocacy Clinic, HLS
Brandon Thomas Crowley, Lecturer on Ministry Studies, HDS
Justin de Benedictis-Kessner, Associate Professor of Public Policy, HKS
Sarah Dryden-Peterson, Professor of Education, HGSE
Diana Eck, Frederic Wertham Research Professor of Law and Psychiatry in Society; Professor of Comparative Religion and Indian Studies Emerita, HDS
Willis M. Emmons, Senior Lecturer and Director, Roland Christiansen Center for Teaching and Learning, HBS
Marshall Ganz, Rita E. Hauser Senior Lecturer in Leadership, Organizing, and Civil Society, HKS
Yanilda María González, Ford Foundation Assistant Professor of Public Policy, HKS
Evelynn M. Hammonds, Barbara Gutmann Rosenkrantz Professor of the History of Science and Professor of African and African American Studies, FAS; Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences, HSPH
Houman Harouni, Lecturer on Education, HGSE
Raquel Lynne Jimenez, Lecturer on Education, HGSE
Douglas A. Johnson, Lecturer in Public Policy, HKS
Mark D. Jordan, Richard Reinhold Niebuhr Research Professor of Divinity, HDS
Sabra Katz-Wise, Associate Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences, HSPH; Associate Professor in Pediatrics, HMS
Deborah Lolai, Clinical Instructor, LGBTQ+ Advocacy Clinic, HLS
Victor Madrigal-Borloz, Lecturer on Law and Eleanor Roosevelt Senior Visiting Researcher, HLS
Zoe Marks, Lecturer in Public Policy, HKS; Oppenheimer Family Director of the Center for African Studies
Ryan McKittrick, Lecturer and Head of Dramaturgy, FAS; Director of Artistic Programs and Dramaturg, American Repertory Theater
Khalil Gibran Muhammad, Ford Foundation Professor of History, Race, and Public Policy, and Director, Institutional Antiracism and Accountability Project, HKS
Deval Patrick, David R. Gergen Professor of the Practice of Public Leadership, HKS
Diane Paulus, Professor of the Practice of Theatre, FAS; Terrie and Bradley Bloom Artistic Director, American Repertory Theater
Alexis Redding, Lecturer on Education, HGSE
William B. Rubenstein, Bruce Bromley Professor of Law, HLS
Kathryn Sikkink, Ryan Family Professor of Human Rights Policy, HKS
Latanya Sweeney, Daniel Paul Professor of the Practice of Government and Technology, HKS and FAS
Sandra Susan Smith, Daniel and Florence Guggenheim Professor of Criminal Justice, Director, Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy, and Faculty Director, Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management, HKS; Professor of Sociology, FAS
Tracy K. Smith, Professor of English and of African and African American Studies, FAS
Jeffrey Swindle, Lecturer on Sociology, FAS