Emilie M. Hafner-Burton

Emilie M. Hafner-Burton is a professor at the UC San Diego School of Global Policy and Strategy and director of the school’s laboratory on international law and regulation. She is co-director of the Future of Democracy Initiative at the University of California's Institute for Global Conflict and Cooperation.
She is the author of Making Human Rights a Reality.

Education

Hafner-Burton received a B.A. in political science and philosophy from Seattle University in 1995, when she was also awarded the Story Award for the highest student achievement in Women’s Studies and the Kennedy Award for the highest student achievement in Political Science. She was a recipient of a National Education Achievement Foundation Scholarship Award in 1994.
After graduation she apprenticed as a blacksmith before winning a scholarship which involved travelling to Geneva, Switzerland where she worked for an "international nongovernmental organization dedicated to the promotion of human rights and disarmament." This involved spending time at the United Nations, which in turn led her towards a career in political science.
She earned an M.A. in political science from University of Wisconsin—Madison in 1999 and a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Wisconsin—Madison in 2003. During her Ph.D. studies she was a recipient of the following fellowships, grants and prizes:

European Union Center fellowship, University of Wisconsin—Madison
MacArthur Consortium, global studies scholarship, University of Wisconsin
Center for International Security and Cooperation, MacArthur fellow, Stanford University
Graduate Student Council, Vilas travel grant, University of Wisconsin—Madison
Scott Kloeck-Jenson International pre-dissertation grant, University of Wisconsin
National Science Foundation, dissertation improvement grant in political science
University Dissertator fellowship, University of Wisconsin—Madison
American Political Science Association Prize for best dissertation in human rights
American Political Science Association Helen Dwight Reid Award for best dissertation in international relations, law, and politics

She was awarded an honorary M.A. from Oxford University in 2003.

Grants, fellowships, awards and gifts

Hafner-Burton has been recipient of the following:

Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom International Fellowship in Disarmament and Development
Women in International Security: Graduate symposium on international security. Washington D.C.
European Networking Series, British Council
Postdoctoral Research Prize, Oxford University, Nuffield College
International Studies Association Workshop Grant, for “Preventing Human Rights Abuse”
Princeton University:
* Center for Globalization and Governance for Intergovernmental organizations in action
* Dean of Faculty book grant
* Woodrow Wilson School for Public and International Affairs grant
* Bobst Center for Peace and Justice project grant
* Dean of Faculty project grant
* Class of 1934 University Preceptor, Woodrow Wilson School
Karl Deutsch Award which is presented annually to a scholar under the age of 40 who is judged to have made, through a body of publications, the most significant contribution to the study of international relations and peace research by the International Studies Association
International Studies Association, best book award

Articles

Hafner-Burton has contributed to journals including:

She contributed to Networked Politics: Agency, Power, and Government edited by Miles Kahler, pub. Cornell University Press, 2009.