The Research Program on Economic and Social Rights brings more than a dozen UConn faculty together with over 30 affiliated scholars from across the United States and Canada. Together, we have generated numerous graduate and undergraduate courses, several edited volumes, multiple co-authored articles, and the National Science Foundation-funded Socio-Economic Rights Fulfillment Index (SERF Index).
Economic & Social Rights Group (ESRG)
The centerpiece of our program is the ESRG, an interdisciplinary monthly gathering of faculty and graduate students who meet to share ongoing research and to discuss current scholarship around economic and social rights. In addition to monthly meetings, we produce the Economic Rights Working Paper Series, hold an annual thematically-oriented, one-day workshop with our affiliated members, and host an annual public lecture by a leading figure in the field. Past speakers include Philip Alston and Immanuel Wallerstein.
Economic Rights Working Paper Series
The purpose of the series is to foster and promote research in the re-emerging area of economic rights. The series aims to be the clearinghouse for research in economic rights. It will be continuously updated. Typically, working papers in the series represent work in progress on any topic of economic rights and from any field. Published articles may also be included as a convenient way for scholars to access up-to-date research in their area of interest. In all cases the copyrights for the papers included in the series remain with the author or, if previously published, with the author and/or publisher. Those interested in submitting papers to the series should contact Derek Johnson at derek.johnson@uconn.edu.
If you are interested in receiving email announcements for our events, visit the ESRG listserv page to enroll. If this is the first time you have signed up for a UConn listserv, please select “Get Password” on the right side of the page and follow the steps to register your password. You can return to the same site in the future to change your email address or unsubscribe. Members of the list include graduate students, staff members, faculty members, and visitors to the Gladstein Family Human Rights Institute. The list is moderated by a faculty member in the program. To send e-mails to the listserv, simply send your email to uconn_esrg-l@listserv.uconn.edu. To prevent SPAM, the system will ask you to confirm that you have submitted your email.
The Economic & Social Rights Program has a rich history of cultivating scholars and practitioners whose work concerns issues of poverty, inequality, environmental justice, and other challenges at the heart of human wellbeing. Read more about how we’ve grown in UConn Today.
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Our People
Leadership
Shareen Hertel
Director, Research Program on Economic & Social Rights
Professor, Political Science & Human Rights
Affiliate Members
Imge Akaslan
Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law
Business and Human Rights, Global Supply Chains
Catherine Albisa
Race Forward
Constitutional and Human Rights Law
Radhika Balakrishnan
Rutgers University
Gender; Development; Budgetary Analysis
Kristy A. Belton
Consultant
Economic Rights
Salil Benegal
Union Collegee
Environmental Rights; Inequality
Lea Bishop
Indiana University McKinney School of Law
Right to Science and Culture
Catherine Buerger
Dangerous Speech Project
Human Rights Education; Activism
Benjamin Carbonetti
Trinity College
State Capacity; Repression
Christina Chiarelli-Helminiak
West Chester University
Burnout; Human Rights Education
Chad Clay
University of Georgia
Labor Rights; Human Rights Measurement
Allison Corkery
Center for Economic & Social Rights
Economic and Social Rights; Methodology
Diane F. Frey
San Francisco State University
International Labor Standards; Right to Decent Work; Union Rights
Sakiko Fukuda-Parr
The New School
Human Rights Measurement; Global Financing
Carlos Garcia-Quijano
University of Rhode Island
Human Well-being; Human Ecology; Coastal Livelihoods
Michael Goodhart
University of Pittsburgh
Democracy; Globalization
Mark Gibney
University of North Carolina- Asheville
Extraterritorial Obligations
Madri Hall-Faul
University of Kentucky College of Social Work
Devolution, social welfare policy, cash assistance
Philip Harvey
Rutgers University
Right to Employment; Labor Rights
Patrick Heidkamp
Southern Connecticut State University
Economic Geography; Globalization
Richard Hiskes
Grand Valley State University
Economic Rights; Environmental Rights
Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann
Wilfrid Laurier University
Right to Food; Economic Rights
Chris Jeffords
Villanova University
Environmental Human Rights; Environmental Economics
Elizabeth Kaletski
Ithaca College
Economic Development; Labor Rights; Child Labor
Prakash Kashwan
Brandeis University
Environmental Policy; Global Climate Governance
Konstantinos (Kostas) Koutsioumpas
Independent Researcher
Right to Sport; Physical Activity and Play
Hilda Llorens
University of Rhode Island
Environmental justice; Afro-Caribbean Ecologies; Latinx Environmentalisms
Gillian MacNaughton
Social and Economic Rights Associates
Right to Health; Right to Decent Work
Brendan Mark
University of Rhode Island
Political Economy; Collective Dissent
Leslie Marshall
Director, SFPE Foundation
Corporate Social Responsibility
Ken Neubeck
UConn Emeritus
Economic Rights; Welfare Policies
Nishith Prakash
Northeastern University
Development; Political Economy
Sanjay Reddy
The New School
Political Economy; Development
Ana María Sánchez Rodríguez
Maynooth University
Discrimination; International Development
Shawna Sweeney
Consultant
Women’s Economic Rights; Measurement
Corinne Tagliarina
SUNY Morrisville
Right to Water, Laws and Policy
Rachel Wahl
University of Virginia Curry School of Education
Human Rights Education
Daniel J. Whelan
Hendrix College
History of Human Rights
Inga Winkler
Central European University, Department of Legal Studies
Global Justice; Right to Sanitation
Katharine G. Young
Boston College
Comparative Constitutional Law; Judicial Review
Christian Zimmermann
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Redistribution; Unemployment