Rebecca Sanders

Website: https://www.rebeccasandersphd.com

I am an Associate Professor of Political Science and the Assistant Director of the School of Public and International Affairs (SPIA) at the University of Cincinnati. I also direct the interdisciplinary International Human Rights Certificate and am affiliate faculty with the Department of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.

My research agenda addresses pressing global challenges at the intersection of international human rights, international security, and public health. I am especially interested in how societies grapple with rights tradeoffs in real and perceived emergencies and the dynamics of rights advancement and retrenchment.  

 

Ph.D. : Department of Political Science, University of Toronto 2012

M.A. : Department of Political Science, McGill University 2005

B.A. (Honours): Arts and Science, McGill University 2003

International Security
International and National Security Law
Global Governance
Terrorism and Counterterrorism
American Foreign Policy
Intelligence Agencies
North-South Relations
Ethics and International Relations
Human Rights
Women's Rights
Feminism
Norm Contestation

Grant: #URC Faculty 2012-13 Investigators:Sanders, Rebecca 05-01-2013 -06-30-2013 UC's University Research Council Permissive Constraint: The Paradox of Law in the American “Global War on Terror” Role:PI $8,000.00 Closed Level:Internal UC

Grant: #R40746 Investigators:Jenkins, Laura; Sanders, Rebecca 07-01-2019 -12-31-2020 UC's AHSS Faculty Research Summer Stipend Program The Indivisibility of Human Rights?: Religious Freedom, Women’s Rights, and Conflicting International Legal Claims Role:PI $10,000.00 Active Level:Internal UC

Grant: #SES-2034367 Investigators:Mewhirter, Jack; Sanders, Rebecca 07-01-2020 -06-30-2021 National Science Foundation RAPID: Public Perceptions of Civil Rights Trade-Offs During the COVID-19 Pandemic Role:PI $199,251.00 Awarded Level:Federal

Peer Reviewed Publications

Rebecca Sanders. (2011. ) “(Im)plausible legality: The rationalisation of human rights abuses in the American ‘Global War on Terror’" .The International Journal of Human Rights, , 15 (4 ) ,605-626

(Im)plausible legality

Rebecca Sanders. (2014. ) "Legal Frontiers: Targeted Killing at the Borders of War" .Journal of Human Rights, , 13 (4 ) ,512-536

Legal Frontiers

Rebecca Sanders. (2016. ) "Norm Proxy War and Resistance Through Outsourcing: The Dynamics of Transnational Human Rights Contestation" .Human Rights Review, , 17 (2 ) ,165-191

Norm Proxy War

Rebecca Sanders. (2015. ) "Torture" .The Encyclopedia of Political Thought, , Malden, MA: Wiley Blackwell ,

EPT

Rebecca Sanders. (2018. ) "Human Rights Abuses at the Limits of the Law: Legal Instabilities and Vulnerabilities in the "Global War on Terror”" .Review of International Studies, , 44 (1 ) ,2-23

Limits of the Law

Rebecca Sanders. (2018. ) "Norm Spoiling: Undermining the International Women's Rights Agenda" .International Affairs, , 94 (2 ) ,271-291

Norm Spoiling

Andrea Birdsall and Rebecca Sanders (2020. ) "Trumping International Law?" .International Studies Perspectives, , 21 (3 ) ,275-297

Trumping International Law?

Rebecca Sanders (2021. ) "Human Rights and Counterterrorism: The American “Global War on Terror"" .International Human Rights in War, , edited by Damien Rodgers and Stephen Hoadley, Singapore: Springer Press ,

HR and CT

Danielle McLaughlin, Jack Mewhirter, and Rebecca Sanders (2021. ) "The Belief That Politics Drive Scientific Research & Its Impact on COVID-19 Risk Assessments" .PLOS ONE, , 16 (4 ) ,

COVID Politicization

Anne Sisson Runyan and Rebecca Sanders (2021. ) "Prospects for Realizing International Women’s Rights Law Through Local Governance: The Case of Cities for CEDAW" .Human Rights Review , , 22 (3 ) ,303-325

Cities for CEDAW

Jack Mewhirter, Mustafa Sagir, and Rebecca Sanders (2022. ) "Towards a Predictive Model of COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy among American Adults" .Vaccine, , 40 (12 ) ,1783-1789

Vaccine Hesitancy

Andrea Birdsall and Rebecca Sanders (2023. ) "Opportunistic Oppression: U.S. Migration and Public Health Policy During the COVID-19 Pandemic" .The International Journal of Human Rights, , 27 (5 ) ,809-829

Opportunistic Oppression

Rebecca Sanders and Laura Dudley Jenkins (2022. ) "Control, Alt, Delete: Patriarchal Populist Attacks on International Women’s Rights" .Global Constitutionalism, , 11 (3 ) ,401-429

Control, Alt, Delete

Rebecca Sanders and Laura Dudley Jenkins (2022. ) "Special Issue Introduction: Contemporary International Anti-Feminism" .Global Constitutionalism, , 11 (3 ) ,369-378

International Anti-Feminism

Rebecca Sanders and Laura Dudley Jenkins (2023. ) "Patriarchal Populism: The Conservative Political Action Coalition (CPAC) and the Transnational Politics of Authoritarian Anti-Feminism" .The International Spectator, ,

Transnational Patriarchal Populism

Published Books

Rebecca Sanders, Plausible Legality: Legal Culture and Political Imperative in the Global War on Terror .Oxford University Press, 2018

OUP site

Technical Reports

Rebecca Sanders and Laura Dudley Jenkins (2021. ) Pushback against Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in the USA .Power Over Rights: Understanding and Countering the Transnational Anti-Gender Movement, Volume II: Case Studies,7-26

Power Over Rights

Rebecca Sanders, Anne Sisson Runyan, Jack Mewhirter, et al. (2020. ) Gender Equity in the City of Cincinnati .Report of the Gender Equity Research Team,

Final Report

Terrorism and Insurgency Level:Undergraduate

International Law and Organization Level:Undergraduate

International Human Rights Level:Undergraduate

Ethics, Violence, and War Level:Undergraduate

Ethics and International Relations Level:Undergraduate

Human Rights & Security: Seeking Balance in a Free Society Level:Undergraduate

Contemporary International Law Level:Graduate

Fascism: Violence, Power, and Hatred in the Past and Present Level:Undergraduate

5135 Clifton Court Hall
2800 Clifton Avenue
Cincinnati  Ohio, 45221-0375
rebecca.sanders@uc.edu