Kohen, Ari. 2007. Rights and Wrongs Without God: A Non-Religious Grounding for Human Rights in a Pluralistic World. (London: Routledge, forthcoming).
Kohen, Ari. 2006. “The Problem of Secular Sacredness: Ronald Dworkin, Michael Perry, and Human Rights Foundationalism.” 5 Journal of Human Rights 2 (forthcoming).
Kohen, Ari. 2005. “The Possibility of Secular Human Rights: Alan Gewirth and the Principle of Generic Consistency.” 7 Human Rights Review 1 (October/December).
Furia, Peter and Ari Kohen. 2005. “Thucydides” in The Encyclopedia of Social Measurement ed. Kimberly Kempf-Leonard. New York: Academic Press.
Awards, Grants, and Distinctions
- Irmgard Coninx Foundation Research Fellowship, 2006.
- Three-month residence at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB).
- Award for winning international essay competition, “Reframing Human Rights.”
- James Madison University Office of International Programs International Development Grant, 2006.
- James Madison University Faculty Summer Research Grant, 2005.
- Duke University Department of Political Science Summer Dissertation Improvement Grant, 2004.
- Duke University Graduate Fellowship, 1999-2004.
- International Scholarship Foundation Postgraduate Scholarship, 1999.
- Jack Chapin Memorial Prize for Outstanding Undergraduate Student in Political Theory, 1998-1999.
- Genevieve Gillette Fellowship for Summer Research, 1998.
- Teaching and Research Interests
- Ancient, modern, and contemporary political theory; human rights; restorative justice; capital punishment; non-governmental organizations; international and ethnic conflict.
