Research Interests for Robin Kirk

My interests include the place of human rights within a university course of study and how to deal with the past from a rights framework, including memorialization, post-conflict negotiation, cross-community relations and ways to visualize and construct frameworks around dialogue between different communities. I consider myself an engaged scholar, conducting research but also engaging in the creation of human rights advocacy, whether through anti-torture coalition-building, the Pauli Murray Project’s goals of recovering rights history in Durham or bringing Duke students to Northern Ireland to help fortify the peace process. Broadly, I am also interested in how and in what way societies create a human rights culture and the opportunities and drawbacks of different educational approaches. I am committed to promoting human rights work both at home, in communities like the one where Duke is located, and abroad.

Keywords:

Colombia, Conflict management, Creative writing, Creative writing--Fiction, Creative writing--Juvenile literature, Denial of justice, dystopia, Fantasy, Fantasy gamers, human rights, Human Rights, Human rights advocacy, Human rights and globalization, Human rights movements, Human rights--America, Human rights--History--20th century, Human rights--Northern Ireland, Journalism, memorialization, Memory Studies, Muser Mentor, Northern Ireland, Online journalism, Peru, post-conflict reconciliation, Science fiction, Science fiction films, Truth commissions, Young adult literature

Current projects:

Biography of a Wall

Young adult trilogy

human rights education

Areas of Interest:

Latin America
Northern Ireland
human rights

Recent Publications

1. Kirk, R, The Mother's Wheel Book Three of the Bond Trilogy (September, 2022), pp. 300 pages, ISBN 9798985584141 [abs]
2. Kirk, R, The Hive Queen Book Two of the Bond Trilogy (June, 2022), pp. 326 pages, ISBN 9798985584127 [abs]
3. Kirk, R, Righting Wrongs 20 Human Rights Heroes Around the World (June, 2022), pp. 240 pages, Chicago Review Press, ISBN 9781641605625 [abs]
4. Kirk, R, Reflections on a silent soldier, American Scholar, vol. 88 no. 4 (September, 2019), pp. 30-40
5. Kirk, R, When the shooting stops: How transitional justice turns knowledge into acknowledgment, World Policy Journal, vol. 33 no. 3 (September, 2016), pp. 39-44, Duke University Press [doi] [abs]