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Events FeedThe Human Rights Revolution in the US: Forging a New Foreign Policy in the 1970s
22 November 2010
Dr Barbara Keys, Senior Lecturer, School of Historical Studies, University of Melbourne presented on the topic "The Human Rights Revolution in the US: Forging a New Foreign Policy in the 1970s".
Barbara Keys received her PhD in History from Harvard University in 2001. Before coming to Australia she taught at California State University in Sacramento and was a research fellow at the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC. Her teaching areas include 20th century America, US foreign relations, and the Cold War in global perspective.
Barbara's research interests are broadly in the areas of intercultural relations, globalization, human rights, and the effects of transnational movements and organizations on the behaviour of states. Her first book, Globalizing Sport: National Rivalry and International Community in the 1930s (Harvard University Press, 2006), is a transnational study of the emergence of international sports competitions as a significant political and cultural force in the 1930s. She has also written on sports in the Cold War. She is currently writing a book on the United States and the international politics of torture in the 1970s.
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