Dorothy Thomas
Encyclopedia
Dorothy Quincy Thomas is an American human rights activist. She was a 1998 MacArthur Fellow, and a 1995 Fellow of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
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with an M.A. in 1984.
She is senior program advisor to the US Human Rights Fund. She was founding director of the Human Rights Watch
, Women's Rights Division, from 1990 to 1998.
She was a visiting fellow at the London School of Economics
, from 2007 to 2008.
She is a research associate at the School of Oriental and African Studies
at the University of London
.
She is a director of the Ms. Foundation for Women.
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard is an educational institution in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and one of the semiautonomous components of Harvard University. It is heir to the name and buildings of Radcliffe College, but unlike that historical institution, its focus is directed...
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Life
She graduated from Georgetown UniversityGeorgetown University
Georgetown University is a private, Jesuit, research university whose main campus is in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Founded in 1789, it is the oldest Catholic university in the United States...
with an M.A. in 1984.
She is senior program advisor to the US Human Rights Fund. She was founding director of the Human Rights Watch
Human Rights Watch
Human Rights Watch is an international non-governmental organization that conducts research and advocacy on human rights. Its headquarters are in New York City and it has offices in Berlin, Beirut, Brussels, Chicago, Geneva, Johannesburg, London, Los Angeles, Moscow, Paris, San Francisco, Tokyo,...
, Women's Rights Division, from 1990 to 1998.
She was a visiting fellow at the London School of Economics
London School of Economics
The London School of Economics and Political Science is a public research university specialised in the social sciences located in London, United Kingdom, and a constituent college of the federal University of London...
, from 2007 to 2008.
She is a research associate at the School of Oriental and African Studies
School of Oriental and African Studies
The School of Oriental and African Studies is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom and a constituent college of the University of London...
at the University of London
University of London
-20th century:Shortly after 6 Burlington Gardens was vacated, the University went through a period of rapid expansion. Bedford College, Royal Holloway and the London School of Economics all joined in 1900, Regent's Park College, which had affiliated in 1841 became an official divinity school of the...
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She is a director of the Ms. Foundation for Women.
Works
- "Rape as a War Crime", SAIS Review, Johns Hopkins University
- "Domestic Violence as a Human Rights Issue", Human Rights Quarterly