Journal Information

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 Toby Kelly at [email protected] 

Editorial Collective

Co-Editors

Ayça Çubukçu
London School of Economics

Tobias Kelly
University of Edinburgh

Angela Naimou
Clemson University


Vasuki Nesiah
The Gallatin School, NYU

Timothy Nunan
Free University of Berlin

Jessica Whyte
University of New South Wales

Editorial Board

Michel Agier
École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales

Antony Anghie
University of Utah, National University of Singapore

Michael Barnett
George Washington University

Orna Ben-Naftali
College of Management Academic Studies

Elizabeth Bernstein
Barnard College

Nehal Bhuta
University of Edinburgh

Hilary Charlesworth
University of Melbourne

Eleni Coundouriotis
University of Connecticut

Nick Cullather
Indiana University

Colin Dayan
Vanderbilt University

Faisal Devji
University of Oxford

Mamadou Diouf
Columbia University

Elizabeth Dunn
Indiana University

Jan Eckel
University of Tübingen

Karen Engle
University of Texas-Austin

Harri Englund
University of Cambridge

Luis Eslava
University of Kent

Samera Esmeir
University of California-Berkeley

Didier Fassin
Institute for Advanced Study, École des Hautes Études en Science Sociales

James Ferguson
Stanford University

Lynn Festa
Rutgers University

Conor Gearty
London School of Economics

Nils Gilman
The Berggruen Institute

Nicolas Guilhot
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

Stephen Hopgood
SOAS-University of London

Daniel Immerwahr
Northwestern University

Thomas Keenan
Bard College

Sara Kendall
University of Kent

Martti Koskenniemi
University of Helsinki

Uma Kothari
University of Manchester

Bronwyn Leebaw
University of California-Riverside

Gregory Mann
Columbia University

Sally Engle Merry
New York University

Alexandra S. Moore
Binghamton University

Jeanne Morefield
University of Birmingham

Samuel Moyn
Yale University

Benjamin Nathans
University of Pennsylvania

Sundhya Pahuja
University of Melbourne

Peter Redfield
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

Davide Rodogno
Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies-Geneva

Richard Rottenburg
University of the Witwatersrand

Karen-Margrethe L. Simonsen
Aarhus University

Brad Simpson
University of Connecticut

Sharon Sliwinski
Western University

Lyndsey Stonebridge
University of Birmingham

Miriam Ticktin
New School

Corinna Unger
European University Institute

Richard A. Wilson
University of Connecticut