Summary

Creator:

Kirk, Robin

Abstract:

Robin Kirk is the Faculty co-chair of the Duke University Human Rights Center at the Franklin Humanities Institute. At the time these files were created, Kirk was serving both as a journalist and a Human Rights Watch researcher. Subject files include notes; research materials; newspaper clippings, magazines; reports, many from human rights organizations; correspondence; copies of governmental documents; notebooks; and other items on human rights, primarily in Peru. There are small amounts of material related to Colombia, Haiti and the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, and Bolivia. Publications primarily address politics and human rights issues, particularly in Colombia.

Extent:

13.8 Linear Feet

Language:

Materials in Spanish and English

Collection ID:

RL.11761

Background

Scope and Content:

Subject files include notes; research materials; newspaper clippings, magazines; reports, many from human rights organizations; correspondence; copies of governmental documents; notebooks; and other items on human rights, primarily in Peru. There are small amounts of material related to Colombia, Haiti and the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, and Bolivia. At the time these files were created, Kirk was serving both as a journalist and a Human Rights Watch researcher. Publications primarily address politics and human rights issues, particularly in Colombia.

Biographical / Historical:

Robin Kirk is the Faculty co-chair of the Duke University Human Rights Center at the Franklin Humanities Institute and is a founding member of the Pauli Murray Project, an initiative of the center that seeks to use the legacy of this Durham daughter to examine the region's past of slavery, segregation and continuing economic inequality. An author and human rights advocate, Kirk is a lecturer in the Department of Cultural Anthropology and directs the Human Rights Certificate. An essayist and award-winning poet, she has published widely on issues as diverse as the Andes, torture, the politics of memory, family life and pop culture. Kirk authored, co-authored and edited over twelve reports for Human Rights Watch. In the 1980s, Kirk reported for U.S. media from Peru, where she covered the war between the government and the Shining Path. She continues to write for US media, and has been published in The New York Times, Washington Post, Sojourners, The American Scholar, the Raleigh News and Observer, the Boston Globe, the Durham Herald Sun and other media.

Acquisition Information:

The Robin Kirk Papers were received by the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book Manuscript Library as a gift in 2017.

Processing information:

Processed by Emile Therrien and Alice Poffinberger, August 2019

Accessions described in this collection guide: 2017-0207

Arrangement:

Organized into the following series: Subject files and publications.

Rules or Conventions:

Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Subjects

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Subjects:

Human Rights -- Perú -- History -- 20th century
Human Rights -- Colombia.
Human Rights -- Haiti.
Human Rights -- Dominican Republic
Human Rights -- Ecuador
Human Rights -- Bolivia
Bolivia -- History -- 20th century

Names:

Human Rights Archive (Duke University)
Kirk, Robin

Places:

Peru -- History -- 1980-
Colombia -- Politics and government
Colombia -- History
Haiti -- History
Dominican Republic -- History -- 20th century
Ecuador -- History -- 20th century