Professor of Political Science and International Studies

Year Joined RCNJ: 2009

Contact Information

• Phone: (201) 684-7429
• Email: rroot@ramapo.edu
• Office: A-213
• Office Hours: TF 9:15-9:45 and Wed 10-noon, also Webex by appointment.

Education:

• B.A. Eckerd College
• Ph.D. University of Massachusetts

Courses Offered:

• Intro to International Studies
• Contemporary Latin America
• Politics of Developing Nations
• Comparative Politics
• First Year Seminar
• Contemporary International Human Rights
• Human Rights in Latin America
• Conflict Resolution

Teaching Interests:

• Latin American Politics
• Human Rights
• Development
• Conflict Resolution
• Democratization

Research Interests:

• Transitional Justice
• Civil-Military Relations
• Latin America
• Human Rights Trials.

Scholarly Activity:

• and Sonia Cardenas. Human Rights in Latin America, 2nd ed. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022.
• “Indigenous Rights in Latin America.” In Gender & Rights, one volume of the five volume series Key Concepts in Indigenous Studies. Routledge Press, 2020.
• “How Wiarda Got Human Rights Wrong.” Polity. October 2018.
• “Disappointed Democrats: The New Normal in Latin America.” In Democracy and Democratization: Challenges and Opportunities. Edited by Patrick Campbell, Thomas Sherlock, and Lukas Berg. New York: Sloan, 2018.
• Transitional Justice in Peru. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
• “The Fujimori Effect.” Journal of Human Rights. September 2011.
• “Through the Window of Opportunity: The Transitional Justice Network in Peru.” Human Rights Quarterly. May 2009.