PhD, Sociology, New York University (2005)
Dr. Haglund’s research and teaching are in the areas of human rights, environmental justice, political economy, and socially transformative processes. She currently works to ensure that frontline communities facing threats from climate change are represented in climate policy and is in the process of building a center for climate justice. Her work analyzing the social and political dimensions of sustainability and environmental governance has received support from the U.S. National Science Foundation, the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board and the Brazilian Fulbright Commission. She has done research in Brazil, Costa Rica, El Salvador, India, and South Africa.
Dr. Haglund is co-editor (with Robin Stryker) of Closing the Rights Gap: From Human Rights to Social Transformation (UC Press), which theorizes the processes, mechanisms, and pathways by which rights are more or less effectively realized in practice and offers a framework and strategies for achieving meaningful social change. Her other publications include Limiting Resources: Market-Led Reform and the Transformation of Public Goods (Penn State Press) as well as numerous book chapters and articles in Sustainability, Latin American Perspectives, Journal of Human Rights, Water Policy, European Journal of Sociology, and The Arrow: A Journal of Wakeful Society, Culture, and Politics.
Current courses (John Jay)
EJS 277 Experiential Learning in Environmental Justice
EJS 300 Environmental Justice
POL 316 Politics of Rights
Previous courses (ASU)
Human Rights and Sustainability (graduate and undergraduate)
Globalization and Economic Justice (graduate and undergraduate)
Global Politics of Human Rights (undergraduate)
Human Rights Organizations and Institutions (undergraduate)
American Sociological Association
Law and Society Association
Latin American Studies Association
Forthcoming. Haglund, LaDawn. “Environmental Justice and Human Rights.” In Pumar, Enrique and Heidi Rademacher (eds). Handbook of Contemporary Development Sociology.
2025. “Water Governance and Human Rights Economies.” In Davis, Martha F., Morten Kjaerum, and Savitri Bisnath (eds). Human Rights Economies and Subnational Governance: Theory and Practice. Routledge. ISBN: 9781032755991.
2023. Human Rights at the Intersections of Structural and Cultural Violence. In Anthony Tirado Chase, Sofia Gruskin, and Pardis Mahdavi (eds.) Human Rights at the Intersections: Transformations through Addressing New Challenges. I.B. Tauris.
2019. Human Rights Pathways to Just Sustainabilities. Sustainability. 11(12):3255.
2018. Can Human Rights Challenge Neoliberal Logics? Evidence from Water and Sanitation Rulings in São Paulo, Brazil. In Gillian MacNaughton and Diane F. Frey (eds.) Economic and Social Rights in a Neoliberal World. Cambridge University Press.
2015 (ed., with Robin Stryker). Closing the Rights Gap: From Human Rights to Social Transformation. University of California Press.
2010. Limiting Resources: Market-Led Reform and the Transformation of Public Goods. Pennsylvania State University Press.