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Adam R. Rosenblatt

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Professor of the Practice of the International Comparative Studies Program
International Comparative Studies
adam.r.rosenblatt@duke.edu
Ics Program, Box 90405, Durham, NC 27708
Ics Program, 1304 Campus Drive, Durham, NC 27708-0405
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Scholarly Works - Journal articles

“How can the dead consent?”: Reclamation, research, and the right to say nothing

Journal article Feminist Anthropology · May 1, 2026 This essay explores the ethical and political dilemmas of conducting research on the dead, particularly those whose lives were shaped by marginalization, trauma, and erasure. Drawing on experiences from the classroom, fieldwork in mass graves and marginali ... Full text Cite

The Danger of a single story about forensic humanitarianism.

Journal article Journal of forensic and legal medicine · February 2019 Since the mid-1980s, forensic scientists have played a crucial role in the international response to mass violence, contributing evidence to war crimes tribunals and identifying bodies to end the tortuous uncertainty of loved ones. Recently, experts at the ... Full text Open Access Cite

Autism, Advocacy Organizations, and Past Injustice

Journal article Disability Studies Quarterly · December 21, 2018 Fruitful connections can be made between Disability Studies and post-conflict transitional justice, two areas of scholarship concerned with human rights and the impacts of violence that have rarely been brought into critical dialogue with one anoth ... Full text Open Access Cite

International Forensic Investigations and the Human Rights of the Dead

Journal article Human Rights Quarterly · November 2010 This essay asks whether dead bodies have human rights, and if so, what philosophical foundations those rights have. With equal importance, it considers how these rights would operate in a real-world area of human rights practice, the ... Full text Cite