Humanity

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Review essays

Humanity is dedicated to the publication of incisive review essays on recent scholarly books on human rights, humanitarianism, and development in the modern and contemporary world. These essays usually bring together more than one monograph, exploring them in comparison, while also placing them in their larger scholarly framework, and sustain their discussion for at least 5000 words. For an example, please see Pamela Beth Harris’ recent essay on Stephen Hopgood’s The Endtimes of Human Rights and Alison Brysk’s Speaking Rights to Power.

If you are interested in contributing a review-essay to Humanity, please submit a one-page proposal about the set of books you would like to review via e-mail. Your proposal should explain the approach or framework you plan to bring to your review.

Humanity is a triannual publication dedicated to publishing original research and reflection on human rights, humanitarianism, and development in the modern and contemporary world. An interdisciplinary enterprise, contributions come from anthropology, economics, law, literature, history, philosophy, politics, public health, sociology and the intersections between and among them.

Please send all editorial inquires to humanityjournalupenn@gmail.com.

Editorial Collective

Co-Editors

Ayça Çubukçu
London School of Economics

Angela Naimou
Clemson University

Vasuki Nesiah
New York University

Timothy Nunan
Free University of Berlin

Adrián Lerner-Patrón
University of Cambridge

Elliott Prasse-Freeman
National University of Singapore

Jessica Whyte
University of New South Wales

Editorial Manager

Alejandra Torres

Editorial Board

Antony Anghie
University of Utah

Banu Bargu
University of California, Santa Cruz

Michael Barnett
George Washington University

Nehal Bhuta
University of Edinburgh

Yifeng Chen
Peking University Law School

Eleni Coundouriotis
University of Connecticut

Nick Cullather
Indiana University

Colin Dayan
Vanderbilt University

Faisal Devji
University of Oxford

Jan Eckel
University of Tübingen

Karen Engle
University of Texas-Austin

Luis Eslava
University of Kent

Samera Esmeir
University of California-Berkeley

Cindy Ewing
University of Missouri

Didier Fassin
Institute for Advanced Study and École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales

James Ferguson
Stanford University

Adom Getachew
University of Chicago

Honaida Ghanim
The Palestinian Forum for Israeli Studies, Palestine

Nils Gilman
The Berggruen Institute

Priyamvada Gopal
University of Cambridge

Nicolas Guilhot
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

Sari Hanafi
American University of Beirut

Christina Heatherton
Trinity College

Stephen Hopgood
SOAS-University of London

Daniel Immerwahr
Northwestern University

Ieva Jusionyte
Brown University

Tobias Kelly
University of Edinburgh

Sara Kendall
University of Kent

Robert Knox
University of Liverpool

Martti Koskenniemi
University of Helsinki

Stephen Macekura
Indiana University

Gregory Mann
Columbia University

Alexandra S. Moore
Binghamton University

Jeanne Morefield
University of Birmingham, The Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft

Samuel Moyn
Yale University

Benjamin Nathans
University of Pennsylvania

Sundhya Pahuja
University of Melbourne

Srila Roy
The University of the Witwatersrand

Alexander M. Semyonov
HSE University in St. Petersburg

Rachel Sieder
CIESAS

Brad Simpson
University of Connecticut

Joseph R. Slaughter
Columbia University

Quinn Slobodian
Wellesley College

Lyndsey Stonebridge
University of Birmingham

Miriam Ticktin
The New School

Corinna Unger
European University Institute

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Early Career Scholar Prize

Each year, Humanity awards the Early Career Scholar Prize for the best essay published in the journal in a calendar year. The prize is open to graduate students or those without tenure track jobs at the time of submission.

2023 Winner:

• Howie Rechavia-Taylor, “German Colonialism In The Courtroom — Law, Reparation, And The Grammars of the Shoah,” 

2022 Winners:

• Safiyah Rochelle, “This Is What It Looks Like: Searching for Law’s Afterlife in Guantánamo”
• Emma Kluge, “A New Agenda for the Global South: West Papua, the United Nations, and the Politics of Decolonization”

2021 Winner

• Karin Loevy, “The Balfour Declaration’s Territorial Landscape: Between Protection and Self-Determination”

Open Access and Humanity

Humanity is participating in Project MUSE’s Subscribe to Open Program for 2025. This program was successful for 2025, meaning that content published in 2025 will be openly available without article processing charges. Thank you to the libraries and institution that supported the Subscribe to Open offer!

For information about Green Open Access options, please visit our page on self-archiving and digital repositories.