Emily Paddon Rhoads Author & Editor

Emily Paddon Rhoads is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Swarthmore College. Her research analyses the increased prominence of human rights in the theory and practice of armed conflict. She focuses specifically on the politics and practices of United Nations peacekeeping, humanitarianism, and military intervention with a geographical emphasis on sub-Saharan Africa. She is the former Rose Research Fellow in International Relations at the University of Oxford and a European Research Council (ERC) Postdoctoral Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence. Her PhD is from the University of Oxford, where she was a Trudeau Scholar.