缅北重口

Professor of Political Science and International Studies

Year Joined RCNJ: 2009

Contact Information

• Phone: (201) 684-7429
• Email: rroot@ramapo.edu
• Office: A-213
• Office Hours: TF 11:45-1:30 pm; W 11:00-12:00 pm

Education:

• B.A. Eckerd College
• Ph.D. University of Massachusetts

Courses Offered:

• Intro to International Studies
• Contemporary Latin America
• Politics of Developing Nations
• Comparative Politics
• First Year Seminar
• Contemporary International Human Rights
• Human Rights in Latin America
• Conflict Resolution

Teaching Interests:

• Latin American Politics
• Human Rights
• Development
• Conflict Resolution
• Democratization

Research Interests:

• Transitional Justice
• Civil-Military Relations
• Latin America
• Human Rights Trials.

Scholarly Activity:

• and Sonia Cardenas.聽Human Rights in Latin America, 2nd ed. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022.
• 鈥淚ndigenous Rights in Latin America.鈥� In Gender & Rights, one volume of the five volume series Key Concepts in Indigenous Studies. Routledge Press, 2020.
• 鈥淗ow Wiarda Got Human Rights Wrong.鈥� Polity. October 2018.
• 鈥淒isappointed Democrats: The New Normal in Latin America.鈥� In Democracy and Democratization: Challenges and Opportunities. Edited by Patrick Campbell, Thomas Sherlock, and Lukas Berg. New York: Sloan, 2018.
• Transitional Justice in Peru. New York: Palgrave Macmillan,聽2011.
• 鈥淭he Fujimori Effect.鈥� Journal of Human Rights. September聽2011.
• 鈥淭hrough the Window of Opportunity: The Transitional Justice聽Network in Peru.鈥� Human Rights Quarterly. May 2009.