America Presents

Thomas Cushman

The next American Thursday meeting will be held on January 22 at 3:00 p.m.

The speaker will be Thomas Cushman.

The topic: “Why Liberals Should Support the War in Iraq”.

Thomas Cushman is Professor of Sociology at Wellesley College. His areas of study include human rights, comparative sociology, genocide, and the sociology of culture. He is the author of numerous books and articles on topics ranging from cultural dissidence in Russia to the war in Bosnia and Hercegovina. He is the editor of a book series called "Post-Communist Cultural Studies" with Penn State Press, the founding editor of Human Rights Review, and the founding editor and current editor-in-chief of The Journal of Human Rights, published by Taylor and Francis. Professor Cushman was Mellon Foundation New Directions Fellow for fall semester 2002; was an Associate at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard University, and was a Fellow of the 2001 Salzburg Seminar Academic Core Session on "International Law and Human Rights" chaired by Lloyd Cutler and Richard Goldstone. Professor Cushman received a B.A. in St. Michael’s College in 1981, M.A. and Ph.D in 1987 in University of Virginia.