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New book: Disciplinary Frontiers of Human Rights in Higher Education

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The 20% discount code is DFHRHE26.
https://www.cambridge.org/9781009600859

This groundbreaking book explores the expanding and impactful relationship between human rights and academia, illustrating historical and emerging practices for integrating human rights within scholarship and teaching in a range of disciplines and professional studies. By providing examples of meaningful applications across thirteen academic fields, chapters examine the varied ways that higher education engages with human rights ontologically, theoretically, conceptually, and in practice. Collectively, it also demonstrates that human rights remain essential for addressing twenty-first-century challenges, emphasizing the role of faculty and students in advancing this work. Offering a framework for designing and studying the infusion of human rights within and across disciplines, this work includes a broad range of discussion questions to enrich learner engagement, critical thinking, and practical application. It is a vital resource for instructors, departments, and multidisciplinary centers, as well as anyone engaged in human rights, social justice, peace, and global citizenship education.

  • Offers a framework for designing and studying the infusion of human rights within and across disciplines
  • Provides examples of the meaningful application of human rights themes and values within 13 academic disciplines and professional studies
  • Includes discussion questions for facilitating critical discussion and other assignments in the classroom setting
  • Inspires further application of human rights within disciplinary studies and research

Editors:

Cher Weixia Chen, George Mason University

Felisa Tibbitts, Utrecht University

Jonathan Liljeblad, Australian National University

Cher Weixia Chen, Felisa Tibbitts, Jonathan Liljeblad, José Luis Falconi, Michael R. Orwicz, Robin Adèle Greeley, Maria Armoudian, Anne Goldson, Pramod K. Nayar, Alison Dundes Renteln, Nora Sveaass, Karie Jo Peralta, Whittney Barth, Graeme Bristol, Muhammad Hamid Zaman, Ana María Rodino, Roxanne Missingham, Bradley P. Stoner

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Published: August 2026

Availability: Not yet published – available from July 2026

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9781009600859

HRE USA is a project of the Center for Transformative Action.

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