Serena Parekh
Assistant Professor
Department of Philosophy and Human Rights Institute
University of Connecticut
Manchester Hall 136
344 Mansfield Road office: 860-486-3463
Storrs , CT, 06269-2054 email: serena.parekh@uconn.edu
Serena Parekh
Assistant Professor
Department of Philosophy and Human Rights Institute
University of Connecticut
Manchester Hall 136
344 Mansfield Road office: 860-486-3463
Storrs , CT, 06269-2054 email: serena.parekh@uconn.edu
Phd Boston College (2005)
MA Catholic University of Leuven ( Belgium) (2000)
BA McGill University
Serena Parekh is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Connecticut, jointly appointed with the Human Rights Institute at UConn. Her research focuses on social and political philosophy from a continental perspective, feminist philosophy and the philosophy of human rights
Teaching:
PHIL 104 Philosophy and Social Ethics
PHIL 219 Topics in Philosophy and Human Rights
PHIL 217 Social and Political Philosophy
POLS 125 Introduction to Human Rights
Peer-Reviewed Publications:
“On the Gap Between Woman’s Rights and Human Rights” forthcoming in Global Ethics: Feminist Ethics and Social Theory edited by Rebecca Whisnant and Peggy Desautels, (Rowman and Littlefield).
“Conscience, Morality and Judgment: An Inquiry into the Subjective Basis of Human Rights” forthcoming in a special edition of Philosophy and Social Criticism, entitled “The Uses of Judgment” (Alessandro Ferrara, guest editor), expected date of publication is December 2006.
" A Meaningful Place in the World: Hannah Arendt on the Nature of Human Rights" in The Journal of Human Rights Vol. 3, number 1, March 2004.
"The Constitution of the Other as a Ground for Transcendental Intersubjectivity: A Comparison of the Work of Edith Stein and Edmund Husserl" in Discourse ( University of San Francisco), Spring 2001, p 17-28
Professional Service:
Member of the Human Rights Institute’s Gladstein Commitee