Emma Gilligan
Assistant Professor
Office: Wood Hall, Room 233
Phone: (860) 486-3878
Fax: (860) 486-0641
Email:emma.gilligan@uconn.edu
Areas of Specialty
20th Century Soviet History, human rights and genocide
Current Research Interests
War crimes in Chechnya, international human rights movements, contemporary Russian studies. |
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Biography
After completing her doctoral studies in Russian history at the University of Melbourne, Australia, Emma Gilligan was a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of History at the University of Chicago from 2003-2006. During this time, she completed her book Defending Human Rights in Russia; Sergei Kovalyov Dissident and Human Rights Commisioner, 1969-96 (Routledge, 2004). This book traces the evolution of the Soviet human rights movement from the 1960s in Moscow to the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. It analyzes, in particular, the rise of Sergei Kovalyov, Russia's first human rights commissioner under the presidency of Boris Yeltsin and the impact of former Soviet dissidents on the discourse of human rights in the post-Soviet era. Her second book, War Crimes in Chechnya (Princeton University Press, forthcoming 2008) examines the war crimes committed by Russian soldiers against the civilian population of Chechnya. The study places the conflict in Chechnya within the international discourse on humanitarian intervention in the 1990s and the rise of nationalism in Russia. Emma Gilligan is the author of articles for the Chicago Tribune, 'Why there is no Peace in Chechnya,' 2005 and 'US Loses High Ground on Human Rights', 2006 and the International Herald Tribune. She is a member of the Gladstein Committee for Human Rights and a joint hire with the Human Rights Institute. She teaches courses on the history of human rights and genocide after the Second World War.
Selected Publications
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War Crimes in Chechnya (Princeton University Press, forthcoming 2008)
Defending Human Rights in Russia: Sergei Kovalyov, Dissident and Human Rights Commisioner, 1969-96, (Routledge Press, 2004)
SBS World Guide, entries on Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan and Kyrgyzstan (Hardie Grant Books, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006)
Slavic Review, book review on Conscience, Dissent and Reform in Soviet Russia, Winter 2006
Australian Slavonic & East European Studies, book review on Human Rights in Eastern Europe: Law in its Social Setting. Vol. 10, Number 1, 1996. |
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