Reports

"Global Rights Project 2025 Annual Report" -University of Rhode Island, Center for Nonviolence and Peace Studies With Roya Izadi

"Global Rights Project 2024 Annual Report" University of Rhode Island, Center for Nonviolence and Peace Studies With Ashlea Rundlett, Roya Izadi, and Meg Frost

"Global Rights Project 2023 Annual Report: Trends in Human Rights Practices Worldwide" University of Rhode Island, Center for Nonviolence and Peace Studies. With Meg Frost and Ekaterina Sylvester

"New Directions in Public Housing: Rhode Island Public Housing Survey" 2022. Commissioned by the South Kingstown Housing Authority. Funded by the Social Science Institute for Research Education and Policy and the Rhode Island Foundation. With Shanna Pearson-Merkowitz, Richard McIntyre, and Rob Widell.

"Human Rights Violations and Violent Internal Conflict" 2017. Commissioned by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the World Bank. With David Cingranelli, Mark Gibney, Reed Wood, and Daniel Arnon.

Media - past few years

2026

The Private Market Won't Save Us But Public Housing Can. Providence Journal — Opinion

It's Time Rhode Islanders Made Housing a Human Right. Boston Globe — Commentary

The Path to Harm: A Sequence of Human Rights Violations Precedes Mass Atrocities. Binghamton University News

2025

U.S. is at Risk of Committing a Mass Atrocity, URI Researchers Say. Boston Globe

Under Trump, the U.S. Is on a Path to Committing Grave Human Rights Atrocities in America. Jezebel

URI Political Science Professor Explores Growth of Digital Repression Around the Globe. Rhody Today

URI Political Science Faculty and Students Publish Study on President Trump's Rhetoric and America's Attitudes Toward International Organizations. URI News

2024

Failing Grade: Worker Rights Are the Least Protected Human Rights, Study Says. Courthouse News Service

Alabama House Committee Delays Consideration of Child Labor Bill. Alabama Reflector

Faculty-Led Panel to Explore Civil Discussion in Contentious Times. Rhody Today

2023

Human Rights Report Card. NPR — with Ari Daniel

Global Human Rights Report Card. NBC News Radio — The Weekend Drive with Rory O'Neill

Child Labor in the United States. Al Jazeera English

Ukraine Has a Mixed Record of Treating Its Citizens Fairly. The Conversation

The Restaurant Industry Has a Child Labor Problem. Eater

Clean Slaughterhouses at 13, Mix Drinks at 14. Zeit Online

A Problem of Our Own Making: Understanding Child Labor in the United States. Verfassungsblog

URI Professor: More Resources, Stiffer Penalties Needed for Child Labor. Westerly Sun

Grants

Total Research Funding: $433,000"

Teagle Foundation Knowledge for Freedom Grant — $250,000. 2023. Forgiveness Is Freedom Academy. With Catherine John.

Chandley-Silvia Summer Human Rights Pilot — $75,000. 2023.

Inclusive Housing in South Kingstown — $75,000. 2022. Rhode Island Foundation / SSIREP. With Shanna Pearson-Merkowitz, Richard McIntyre, and Rob Widell.

Teagle Foundation Knowledge for Freedom Grant — $25,000. 2022. With Marcus Nevius and Rebecca Millsop.

Social Science Institute Seed Grant — $5,000. Internal 2024. "Who Wants Human Rights?" With Meg Frost.

Project Completion Grant — $3,000. Internal. URI. Science and the Study of Human Rights with Ashlea Rundlett

Awards and Honors

University Teaching Award - University of Rhode Island 2026

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education — 2024 Emerging Scholar

Sylvia-Chandley Peace Professorship, URI. 2021–2023, 2023–2025

Level III Kingian Nonviolence Trainer Certification. 2022. University of Rhode Island Center for Nonviolence and Peace Studies.

Clifford D. Clark Graduate Fellowship Program for Diversity, Binghamton University. 2012–2015