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Robert F. Barsky: Guggenheim Fellow, Professor at Vanderbilt University
Barsky’s multidisciplinary research combines social justice, human rights, border and refugee studies with literary and artistic insights into the plight of vulnerable migrants. He has published widely, and his books on undocumented migrants, refugees and the milieus of Noam Chomsky and Zellig Harris have been translated into 14 languages. He has also been actively involved in several national and international research projects, supported by the Rockefeller Foundation, the Social Sciences and Humanities Re
With support from the Guggenheim Fellowship, the Rockefeller Foundation, and a Canada Research Chair on Law, Narrative and Border Crossing (2019-2020), Barsky is working to bring humanistic insights to the realm of vulnerable persons. He is also building on the work has done for the past 15 years on a border-crossing journal called AmeriQuests: Narrative, Law and Society , which he started as the Canadian Bicentennial Visiting Professor at Yale. He has also started an open-access e-journal called Contours
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