Natasha A. Bennett is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Puget Sound in the departments of Politics & Government and Latin American Studies. She received her Ph.D. in Political Science, with an interdisciplinary emphasis in Global Studies, at the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB). She specializes in Human Rights and Comparative Politics.
Her passion for global human rights guides her research as well as her teaching. In her research, Natasha focuses on identifying, explaining, and resolving chronic gaps in human rights protection/fulfillment associated with citizenship and social exclusion, economic development, gender, migration, and globalization. As an educator in comparative politics and international relations, she aims to cultivate global citizenship, passion, and civic engagement in her students.
Her passion for global human rights guides her research as well as her teaching. In her research, Natasha focuses on identifying, explaining, and resolving chronic gaps in human rights protection/fulfillment associated with citizenship and social exclusion, economic development, gender, migration, and globalization. As an educator in comparative politics and international relations, she aims to cultivate global citizenship, passion, and civic engagement in her students.