CSI professor named to advisory collective Sunday, October 18, 2009
ADVANCE STAFF REPORT Staten Island Advance STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Sarah Schulman has been named to the Founding Advisory Collective of the Human Rights and Social Movements Program at Harvard Kennedy School's Carr Center for Human Rights Policy. Ms. Schulman is currently a professor of English at the College of Staten Island, Willowbrook. She also is an author, a playwright and an historian. She also is an activist for the Lesbian, Gay, Bi-Sexual and Transgender (LGBT) community. As part of the Carr Center, she will be sharing a space with several writers, including Frank Rich, columnist for the New York Times, and journalist Naomi Klein. This fall's program will examine when society puts human rights and social movements together and how those social movements challenge the way the public thinks about human rights, and how human rights inform, inspire, or confound social movements that seek to transform society. The program will employ research and teaching to address these issues including sponsoring conference and lecture series, biweekly study groups, a spring-term brownbag series on humanities and human rights, and other activities. Schulman is the author of 14 books; her awards include a Guggenheim, a Fulbright, a Revson Fellow for the Future of New York at Columbia University, two American Library Association Book Awards, three New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowships, finalist for the Prix de Rome, and Kessler Prize for Sustained Contribution to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Studies. She has also been active in a number of foundational movements for social change, including abortion rights, AIDS activism and the gay and lesbian liberation movement. She is co-founder with Jim Hubbard of both the MIX:NY LGBT Experimental Film and Video Festival, and the ACT UP Oral History Project.
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