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Joseph Paul Martin
International Affairs Building, Room 1108
Executive Director, Center for the Study of Human Rights; Director, Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs Program; Adjunct Professor, Teachers College
Phone: 212-854-3193
jpm2@columbia.edu
Biography:
Joseph Martin is a cofounder, along with Columbia Law School professor Louis Henkin, of the Center for the Study of Human Rights (1978). He has also been the center's executive director since its inception. He is the director of the Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs Program and an adjunct professor at Teachers College. He was the director of the Earl Hall Center, from 1974 to 1986.
Professor Martin has published works on moral education, human rights, and human rights education. Some of his key publications include "Promoting Human Rights Education in a Marginalized Africa," with Cosmas Gitta and Tokunbo Ige and "Epilogue: The Next Step, Quality Control," in Human Rights Education for the Twenty-First Century, which was edited by George J. Andreopoulos and Richard Pierre Claude (University of Pennsylvania 1997) and "Ethnicity and Racism," in The Columbia History of the 20th Century, which was edited by Richard W. Bulliet (Columbia 1998). He has edited three collections of human rights documents and contributed to the Oxford Encyclopedia on Political Science and the Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East.
Martin earned a PhL from Angelicum University, Rome in 1960 and an STL in 1964. In 1968, he received an MA from Teachers College, Columbia followed by a PhD in comparative education from Columbia in 1973. Professor Martin served as a dean at the University in Lesotho, Africa. Martin has served in the British Army. For the last five years, he has been working with human rights NGO coalitions in Africa to develop their own research and training programs.