1. ADAM RICHARD ROSENBLATT
arosenblat@haverford.edu
Web: haverford.academia.edu/AdamRosenblatt
Twitter: @humanrightsprof
Haverford College 222 Dudley Ave.
370 Lancaster Ave. Narberth, PA 19072
Haverford, PA 19041 Cell: (857) 231-6124
EMPLOYMENT
July 2015- Haverford College
Visiting Assistant Professor of Peace, Justice, and Human Rights
2011-2015 Champlain College
Assistant Dean for Global Engagement
Assistant Professor of Global Studies, Core Division
EDUCATION
2005-2011 Stanford University
•Ph.D., Modern Thought and Literature
Dissertation: Last Rights: Forensic Science, Human Rights, and the Victims of Atrocity
Committee: Joshua Cohen (Chair), Helen Stacy, Elaine Scarry (Harvard)
•Ph.D. Minor, Political Science
•M.A., Modern Thought and Literature
1996-2000 Yale University
B.A., Literature
Phi Beta Kappa, Summa Cum Laude, Distinction in the Literature Major
TEACHING & RESEARCH INTERESTS
forensic science and human rights; transitional justice; bioethics and the body; science and
technology studies; political and democratic theory; feminism and the family; children’s citizenship;
global education; Latin America; animal ethics and food politics; neurodiversity and autism
SCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONS
Book: Digging for the Disappeared: Forensic Science after Atrocity. Stanford UP, 2015.
Articles/Book Chapters:

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“Known Unknowns: DNA Identifications, the Nation-State, and the Iconic Dead” (with Sarah
Wagner). Case Studies in Forensic Biohistory: Anthropological Perspectives. Eds: William Duncan and
Christopher Stojanowski. Cambridge UP, 2015 (forthcoming).
“Sacred Graves and Human Rights.” Human Rights at the Crossroads. Ed: Mark Goodale. Oxford UP,
2012: 122-139.
“International Forensic Investigation and the Human Rights of the Dead.” Human Rights Quarterly
32: 4 (November 2010), 921-950.
“‘Down a Road and into an Awful Silence’: Graphic Listening in Joe Sacco’s Comics Journalism”
(with Andrea Lunsford). Silence and Listening as Rhetorical Arts. Eds: Cheryl Glenn and Christa
Ratcliffe. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 2011: 130-146.
“Critique, Caricature and Compulsion in Joe Sacco’s Comics Journalism” (with Andrea Lunsford).
The Rise of the American Comics Artist: Creators and Contexts. Eds: Paul Williams and James Lyons.
Mississippi UP, 2010: 68-89.
“The Making and Re-Making of El Eternauta.” International Journal of Comic Art 9:2 (Fall 2007): 81-92.
SELECTED COURSES
Global Relationships, Institutions, and Differences (Senior Seminar in Global Studies)
Human Rights and Responsibilities
Human Rights and the Practice of Nonviolence
Human Rights and the Dead
Frontera: Culture and Politics at the U.S.-Mexico Border
Globalization and Technology
Children’s Rights/Children’s Liberation
Bodies
GRANTS & FELLOWSHIPS
2011-13 “Ethics of Post-Conflict and Post-Disaster DNA Identification”
Member, research team funded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health. Grant
funded interviews with forensic scientists, government officials, human rights
advocates, and families of the missing in Chile about the process of identifying the
bodies of the Pinochet-era “Disappeared,” as well as an upcoming volume for the
Voice of Witness series.
2010-11 Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship
Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship (declined)
Mellon Foundation Dissertation Fellowship (declined)
2008-10 Ric Weiland Graduate Fellowship, Stanford University

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2008-2009 Ric Weiland Research Grant, Stanford University
2005-2006 Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship in Humanistic Studies
ACADEMIC SERVICE
2011-2015 Director, Institute for Global Engagement, Champlain College
2014-2015 C.A.R.E. (Champlain Achievement, Retention, and Excellence) Mentor for Student
from Underrepresented Background, Champlain College
2013-2015 Co-Organizer and Participant, Faculty Learning Community on Diversity &
Inclusion, Champlain College
2013-2015 Advisory Board, Environmental Policy Program, Champlain College
2012-2015 Member, Faculty Committee on Professional Development, Champlain College
2015 Search Committee for a Program Director and Assistant or Associate Professor of
Social Work, Champlain College
2012-2013 Search Committee for a Dean of the Division of Education and Human Studies,
Champlain College
2011-2012 Faculty Committee on Multicultural Affairs, Champlain College, and winner of an
“Intercultural Champion” Award for Education and Scholarship
Peer Referee: Review of International Studies, American Anthropologist, Journal of Social Archaeology
SELECTED LECTURES & CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
2015 “Success Inscribed in Failure: Measurement and Evidence in Mass Grave Investigations.”
Panel on “The Body as Witness: Forensic Science and Human Rights,” George Washington
University, Washington, DC.
2013 “Global Engagement or Curricular Integration?: The Unexpected Uses of a Social Network
Site.” American Association of Colleges and Universities Global Learning Conference,
Providence.
“The Exhuming State: Identifying the Disappeared in Democratic Chile.” Disaster,
Displacement, and Human Rights Symposium, University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
2012 “Humanitarians for the Dead.” Middlebury College, Vermont and University of South
Africa, Pretoria.
“Humanitarianism and Human Rights in the Context of Post-Conflict Forensic
Investigations.” American Academy of Forensic Sciences Annual Scientific Meeting, Atlanta.

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2011 “Caring for the Dead: A Global Project.” International Studies Assocation Northeast Annual
Meeting, Providence.
2010 “Forensics of the Sacred: Mass Graves, Human Rights, and Religious Prohibitions.”
Association for Political Theory Annual Meeting, Reed College, Portland.
“The Language of Rights and the Crime of Disappearance: Truth, Knowledge, Mourning,
and Identity as Human Rights.” The Question of Rights conference, San Francisco State
University.
“Roundtable: The Rights of the Dead.” International Congress of Historical Sciences,
Amsterdam, Netherlands.
“Torture and Economic Rights.” Western Political Science Association Annual Meeting, San
Francisco.
Respondent, “Local Maladies, Global Disparities: Rethinking Right to Health Duties,” by
Everaldo Lamprea and Tatiana Andia. Stanford University Global Justice and Political
Theory workshops.
2009 “Theorizing ‘Things’: New Materialism and the Social Sciences” (panelist). Western Political
Science Association Annual Meeting, Vancouver, Canada.
Respondent, Human Rights in the 21st
Century: Sovereignty, Civil Society, Culture, by Helen Stacy.
Stanford Global Justice and Political Theory workshops.
2008 “Research Methods in the Humanities.” Interdisciplinary Program on Environment and
Resources, Stanford University.
“International Forensic Investigation and the Claims of the Dead.” American Political
Science Association Annual Meeting, Boston; Global Justice and Political Theory
workshops, Stanford University.
OTHER RELEVANT PUBLICATIONS
“Exhuming Equality: The Forensics of Human Rights.” Boston Review. Web. Dec. 2, 2013. Also
appearing in Arabic translation in The Journal of al-Thaqafah al-‘Alamiyah (World Culture).
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
“Don’t Blame Youth for the GOP Sweep.” The Chronicle of Higher Education. Web. Nov. 10, 2014.
“Is it Cruel to Raise My Sons to be Vegetarians?” The Good Men Project. Web. Feb. 23, 2014.
“Exhuming Equality: The Forensics of Human Rights.” Boston Review. Web. Dec. 2, 2013. Also

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appearing in Arabic translation in The Journal ofal-Thaqafah al-‘Alamiyah (World Culture).
PREVIOUS EMPLOYMENT
2004-5 International Forensic Program Associate, Physicians for Human Rights, Boston
2003-4 Researcher, Anti-Corruption Program, Human Rights Center, University of Chile
Law School, Santiago, Chile
LANGUAGES
English: Native fluency
Spanish: Fluent
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
American Political Science Association
International Studies Association
REFERENCES
Joshua Cohen Professor of Political Science, Philosophy, and Law
Director of the Program on Global Justice, Stanford University
joshua_cohen@apple.com, 650.723.0256
Elaine Scarry Professor of English and American Literature, Harvard University
617.547.7397
Helen Stacy Senior Fellow, Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law
Senior Lecturer, Stanford School of Law
Director of the Program on Human Rights, Stanford University
hstacy@stanford.edu, 650.724.7496
José Zalaquett Professor of Human Rights, Ethics, and Government, University of Chile
Former President, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
jzalaque@terra.cl, 56.2.978.5271

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appearing in Arabic translation in The Journal ofal-Thaqafah al-‘Alamiyah (World Culture).
PREVIOUS EMPLOYMENT
2004-5 International Forensic Program Associate, Physicians for Human Rights, Boston
2003-4 Researcher, Anti-Corruption Program, Human Rights Center, University of Chile
Law School, Santiago, Chile
LANGUAGES
English: Native fluency
Spanish: Fluent
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
American Political Science Association
International Studies Association
REFERENCES
Joshua Cohen Professor of Political Science, Philosophy, and Law
Director of the Program on Global Justice, Stanford University
joshua_cohen@apple.com, 650.723.0256
Elaine Scarry Professor of English and American Literature, Harvard University
617.547.7397
Helen Stacy Senior Fellow, Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law
Senior Lecturer, Stanford School of Law
Director of the Program on Human Rights, Stanford University
hstacy@stanford.edu, 650.724.7496
José Zalaquett Professor of Human Rights, Ethics, and Government, University of Chile
Former President, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
jzalaque@terra.cl, 56.2.978.5271