Assistant Professor

Ph.D. Duke University, 2004
Fields: Contemporary Political Theory, Human Rights, Ethnic Conflict, and Restorative Justice.

Ari is author of In Defense of Human Rights, published Spring 2007. Articles appeared recently in Human Rights Review (2005) and the Journal of Human Rights (2006). He was awarded the 2006 Irmgard Coninx Foundation Research Fellowship which included three months of study in Germany where he had an office at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin fur Sozialforschung. He is currently working on a book-length project, The Moral Hero and the Mortal Hero, as well as articles on both restorative justice and the death penalty.