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Kathryn Libal, PhD

Professor of Social Work and Human Rights
University of Connecticut
Hartford, CT, United States

Kathryn Libal, Ph.D., is director of the Human Rights Institute and professor of social work and human rights at the University of Connecticut. Since 2007, she has taught at the School of Social Work and Human Rights Institute, specializing in human rights, refugee resettlement, and social welfare. Current scholarship examines: 1) the localization of human rights norms and practices in the United States, with a focus on social mobilization for the right to adequate food and housing; and 2) the politics and practices of voluntarism and refugee resettlement in the United States. Libal co-edited, with Shareen Hertel, Human Rights in the United States: Beyond Exceptionalism (Cambridge University Press, 2011) and authored, with Scott Harding, Human Rights-Based Approaches to Community Practice in the United States (Springer, 2015). She also co-edited, with S. Megan Berthold, Rebecca Thomas, and Lynne Healy, Advancing Human Rights in Social Work Education (Council on Social Work Education Press, 2014); Refugees and Asylum Seekers: Interdisciplinary and Comparative Perspectives (with S. Megan Berthold, Praeger, 2019) and most recently co-edited, with Molly Land and Jillian Chambers, Beyond Borders: The Human Rights of Noncitizens at Home and Abroad (Cambridge, 2021). Libal serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Human Rights and Social Work and Steering Committee of Scholars at Risk USA Chapter. She teaches courses on human rights and social work, qualitative research methods, social policy analysis, and approaches to human rights advocacy at the BA, MSW, and Ph.D. levels.

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