Kate Nash is Professor of Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London, and Faculty Fellow at the Center for Cultural Sociology, Yale University. She has been Visiting Professor at the New School for Social Research, New York; Sciences Po, Paris; the UN University for Peace, Costa Rica; and Stockholm University. She has written and published widely on the sociology of equal human rights, including The Political Sociology of Human Rights (Cambridge University Press 2015); and The Cultural Politics of Human Rights: Comparing the US and UK (Cambridge University Press 2009). In her current research, Kate is focussing representations of suffering and struggles for justice in human rights films, the social practices through which these representations circulate, and the actions they are intended to inform. She has published work from this research in Public Culture and Human Rights Quarterly.
