ANTH405

Anthropology of Human Rights

Following a consideration of the philosophical and legal foundations, an examination of human rights principles and practices in five policy domains: structured inequality, gender, indigenous livelihoods, migration, and climate change. Emphasizing an anthropological perspective, drawing heavily on fine-grained, ethnographic accounts to contextualize human rights violations and responses.

Spring 2026

Matthew Thomann

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Past Semesters

Robert Winthrop

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Include P/F semesters During the Spring 2020 and Spring 2021 semesters, students could choose to take some of their courses pass-fail mid-semester which skews grade data aggregated across multiple semesters.

Average GPA of 3.39 between 21 students*

A-: 14.29%

A: 47.62%

B-: 9.52%

B: 9.52%

B+: 4.76%

C: 9.52%

D+: 4.76%

* "W"s are considered to be 0.0 quality points. "Other" grades are not factored into GPA calculation. Grade data not guaranteed to be correct.