About Michelle Carmody

Michelle Carmody is an interdisciplinary scholar, trained in area studies (Latin America) with a thematic specialty in human rights. Her first book, Human Rights, Transitional Justice and the Reconstruction of Political Power in Latin America (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), looks at how state actors translated human rights demands into public policy in the form of transitional justice. Her current research is international in scope and uses Amnesty International as a window onto how and why individuals from different geographical, political, and cultural contexts came together and defined what it meant to be a human rights activist and a human rights organization.