Dr Kate Cronin-Furman

Associate Professor in Human Rights
Room: 3.02, 36-38 Gordon Square
Email: k.cronin-furman@ucl.ac.uk
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Biography

I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and Director of the Human Rights MA. Prior to joining UCL, I was a postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and Stanford’s Center for International Security and Cooperation. I received my PhD in Political Science from Columbia in October 2015. I also have a Juris Doctor and have practiced law in New York, Cambodia, and The Hague.

Research

My research focuses on human rights and on the prevention and punishment of mass atrocities. I am one of the conveners of the Advancing Research on Conflict (ARC) Consortium, which provides methodological and ethics training and support to researchers working in violence-affected contexts.

Selected publications

Books

• Cronin-Furman, K. (2022) Hypocrisy and Human Rights: Resisting Accountability for Mass Atrocities. Cornell University Press.

Journal articles

• Cronin-Furman, K. and Arulthas, M. (2021) ‘How the Tigers Got Their Stripes: A Case Study of the LTTE’s Rise to Power’, Studies in Conflict & Terrorism.
• Cronin-Furman, K. and Krystalli, R. (2020) ‘The Things They Carry: Victims’ Documentation of Forced Disappearance in Colombia and Sri Lanka’, European Journal of International Relations, 27(1).
• Cronin-Furman, K. (2020) ‘Human Rights Half Measures: Avoiding Accountability in Post-War Sri Lanka’, World Politics, 72(1), pp. 121–163.
• Cronin-Furman, K. and Lake, M. (2018) ‘Ethics Abroad: Fieldwork in Fragile and Violent Contexts’, Political Science & Politics, 51(3), pp. 607–614.

Other

• Cronin-Furman, K. (2018) ‘The Insistence of Memory’, Los Angeles Review of Books.
• Cronin-Furman, K., Gowrinathan, N. and Zakaria, R. (2017) ‘Emissaries of Empowerment’, Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership (The City College of New York).

Full list of publications on my website

Teaching

I teach the ‘International Law & Human Rights’ and ‘Human Rights: Politics & Practice’ modules on the MA Human Rights, and the ‘Refugees’ seminar on the BSc Politics & International Relations.