Research Interests

• Humanitarian Law
• International Law
• Human Rights Law
• Anthropology of Law
• UN Criminal Tribunals
• The Middle East

Selected Publications

• JUSTICE IN AFRICA: RWANDA'S GENOCIDE, ITS NATIONAL COURTS, AND THE UN CRIMINAL TRIBUNAL (2000, Recipient of Association of Third World Studies' Book of the Year Award, and nominated for the Raphael Lemkin Book Award)
• ANATOLIA'S LOOM: STUDIES IN TURKISH CULTURE, SOCIETY, POLITICS AND LAW (1998)
• HUMAN MATERIALISM: A MODEL OF SOCIOCULTURAL SYSTEMS AND A STRATEGY FOR ANALYSIS (1993)
• TRADITION AND CHANGE IN A TURKISH TOWN (1981)
• THE PEASANT VENTURE (1979)

Courses Taught

ANT 4930 - European Human Rights
CCJ 4934 - Law of Nations
ANT 4273/ANG 6273 - Anthropology of Law
CJL 6089/LAW 6936 - Humanitarian Law

Degrees

• B.S., Business Administration, University of Connecticut
• M.A., Education, Fairfield University
• A.M., Social Anthropology, Harvard University
• Ph.D., Anthropology and Middle East Studies, Harvard University
• J.D., University of Florida Levin College of Law, 1991
• Certificate, International Human Rights Law and Teaching Human Rights Law, International Institute of Human Rights, Strasboug, France, 1993