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About Tim Wyman-McCarthy
Tim Wyman-McCarthy is a Lecturer in the discipline of Human Rights at the Institute for the Study of Human Rights and the Department of Sociology at Columbia University, where he teaches courses on Indigenous rights, refugee rights, human rights theory, and research methods. With a background in the humanities and social sciences (BA English, MA English, MA Human Rights, PhD Rhetoric), he studies the circulation of discourses, concepts, and practices among human rights, development, and philanthropic organizations. His current book project, "In Search of the Political: How Social Movements Enter Liberal Social Change Projects," locates a search for a more ambitious and political kind of liberal social change by elite civil society professionals in the first two decades of the 21st century, and interrogates the epistemological assumptions, elite self-fashioning, metaphorical structures, and social scientific concepts that underwrite their turn to grassroots social movements.Tim Wyman-McCarthy is a Lecturer in the discipline of Human Rights and Associate Director of Graduate Studies at the Institute for the Study of Human Rights and the Department of Sociology at Columbia University. He can be reached at tw2468@columbia.edu.
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NBN Episodes hosted by Tim:
April 14, 2026
The Problem of Personhood
Lisa Siraganian
Hosted by
Tim Wyman-McCarthy
Over the last twenty-five years, the concept of per-sonhood has become central to many contentious debates. Corporations have won free speech protecti…
May 9, 2025
Struggles for the Human
Lara Montesinos Coleman
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Tim Wyman-McCarthy
In Struggles for the Human: Violent Legality and the Politics of Rights (Duke University Press 2024), Lara Montesinos Coleman blends ethnography, poli…
April 3, 2025
Choose Your Bearing
Benjamin P. Davis
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Tim Wyman-McCarthy
Benjamin P. Davis’s Choose Your Bearing: Édouard Glissant, Human Rights and Decolonial Ethics (Edinburgh University Press 2025) provides one of the f…
February 23, 2025
Indigenous Peoples in the International Arena
Elsa Stamatopoulou
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Tim Wyman-McCarthy
Elsa Stamatopoulou’s Indigenous Peoples in the International Arena: The Global Movement for Self-Determination (Routledge 2025) provides a definitive…