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Michael Forman is an Associate Professor in the Department of Social Sciences at the University of Washington Tacoma. He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from Rutgers University, awarded in 1995. His current research focuses on assessing the emancipatory viability of human rights and cosmopolitan discourses in the contemporary context, exploring the tension between the growth of human rights regimes and the rise of prison-security states. Forman has previously written on topics including critical theory, human rights, and labor movements. He teaches various courses on political theory and values, including Enlightenment thought and American political theory, which employ a political history approach to examine societal values through literature and media. He is a member of several academic associations, including the American Political Science Association and the International Political Science Association, and serves on the Steering Committee of the University of Washington's Center for Human Rights.
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