Robin Kirk Member Member since 2012

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Kirk has published three nonfiction books on human rights as well as essays, articles, short stories, and opeds. Her book for children, Righting Wrongs: 20 Human Rights Heroes Around the World, won the 2023 Foreward Reviews Silver medal for children’s nonfiction. Kirk writes fiction and is the author of The Bond, The Hive Queen, and The Mother’s Wheel (2022), an award-winning young adult fantasy trilogy. She co-edits The World Reader series at Duke University Press and coedited the inaugural book, The Peru Reader: History, Culture, Politics.

Kirk directsof the Human Rights Certificate offered by the Duke Human Rights Center at the Franklin Humanities Institute, where she was the founding director. She is a Professor of the Practice in Cultural Anthropology. She is a founding member of the Pauli Murray Center for History and Social Justice. As a senior researcher, Kirk authored, co-authored and edited over twelve reports for Human Rights Watch, all available online.