Human Rights and Cultural Institutions
About the Project
This project examines the ways that communities that include survivors of specific atrocities or systemic racism work with cultural institutions, such as museums, to educate the public about law. I am interested in how their actions in non-legal forums interact with legal institutions and push society to implement human rights practices. In this way, I have analyzed the ways that museums have partnered with truth and reconciliation commissions and NGOs to not only remind visitors of their histories, but to insist on the enforcement of human rights law today.
