Jonathan R. Cole is the John Mitchell Mason Professor of the University at Columbia University. For fourteen years, from 1989 to 2003, he was Provost and Dean of Faculties of Columbia University — the second longest tenure as Provost in the University's 258-year history. He has spent his academic career at Columbia. From 1987 to 1989 he was Vice President of Arts and Sciences. His scholarly work focused principally on the development of the sociology of science as a research specialty. For the past two decades, his scholarly attention focused on issues in higher education, particularly problems facing the great American research universities.
His most recent book, The Great American University: Its Rise to Preeminence, Its Indispensable National Role, Why It Must Be Protected (Public Affairs, 2011), translated into Chinese (March, 2013) and Arabic (Summer, 2013). He co-edited a book, Who's Afraid of Academic Freedom? (Columbia University Press, 2015). His latest coedited book is Noncoercive Threats to Academic, Political, and Economic Freedom (Columbia University Press, 2025).
Moderator: Dr. Verónica Michel
Dr. Verónica Michel (also known as Verónica Michel-Luviano) is Associate Professor of Political Science at John Jay College-CUNY. Originally from Mexico City, she obtained a B.A. in International Relations from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico and a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Minnesota. Her research has focused on victims; rights, public prosecutor's offices, criminal procedure reform, procedural justice, rule of law and comparative and international criminal justice, with a regional focus on Latin America.
She is currently working on a theoretical framework based on organizational ecology to better understand victims' mobilization for access to justice. She has published in peer-reviewed journals such as International Studies Quarterly, Law and Society Review and the Journal of Human Rights.
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This event is co-sponsored by the MA Program in Human Rights and the Master of Arts Degree Program in International Crime & Justice
