Chase, Anthony Tirado

Occidental College
03 nov 2025 - 17 nov 2025
Biografía: 

Anthony Tirado Chase is a professor of Diplomacy and World Affairs at Occidental College. Chase has published widely on human rights and transitional justice in the Middle East, Latin America, and the United States. His most recent research has focused on how global norms – including human rights and transitional justice – can be re-imagined at local levels.

Chase’s books include Human Rights at the Intersections: Transformation through Local, Global, and Transnational Challenges (Bloomsbury, 2023); Handbook on Human Rights and the Middle East and North Africa (Routledge, 2017); Human Rights, Revolution, and Reform in the Muslim World (Lynne Rienner, 2012); and Human Rights in the Arab World: Independent Voices (co-edited with Amr Hamzawy, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006).

His two most recent peer reviewed publications are:
1. “Between Localization and Realization: Partnerships toward Advancing Human Rights and the Sustainable Development Goals in Los Angeles” (with Morales, Anderson, and Gruskin), 2025: https://bookstore.emerald.com/media/openaccess/9781804558928.pdf
2. “Translocal lessons from transitional justice in Colombia: Truth, art, and memory to advance human rights and transform societies,” 2024: https://doi.org/10.1080/14754835.2024.2326632

His two most recent non-peer reviewed publications are:
1. “Local futures for human rights/ Futuros locales para los Derechos Humanos” (with Michael Goodhart). Forthcoming in Open Global Rights, July/August, 2025.
2. “Reckoning with history and difference in municipal spaces/Ajustes de cuentas con la historia y la diferencia en los espacios municipales” (with Kristi Kenyon, Dawnis Kennedy, and Ev Meade). Open Global Rights, July 9, 2025: https://www.openglobalrights.org/reckoning-with-history-and-difference-in-municipal-spaces/

Area(s) of expertise:Transitional Justice; Human Rights; SDGs; Global norms at transnational and local levels