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Can US Foreign Policy Be Fixed?
Samantha Power is currently writing a political biography of Sergio Vieira de Mello, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, and is a foreign policy fellow in the office of US Senator Barack Obama. Her most recent book, “A Problem from Hell”: America and the Age of Genocide, was awarded the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction.
Samantha Power is a professor of practice in public policy and the founding executive director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. From 1993 to 1996, she covered the wars in the former Yugoslavia as a reporter for US News & World Report, the Boston Globe, and the Economist. Her recent book, “A Problem from Hell”: America and the Age of Genocide (Basic Books, 2002), was awarded the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction, the 2003 National Book Critics Circle Award for general nonfiction, and the Council on Foreign Relations’ 2003 Arthur Ross Book Award for the best book on international affairs. Power is a coeditor, with Graham Allison, of Realizing Human Rights: Moving from Inspiration to Impact (St. Martin’s Press, 2000).
The Maurine and Robert Rothschild Lecture is supported by Robert F. Rothschild ’39, in memory of Maurine P. Rothschild ’40. The event is organized by the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America and brings a distinguished woman in history, library science, women’s studies, or related fields to the Radcliffe Institute for a public talk. Past speakers include Angela Davis, Barbara Ehrenreich, and Eve Ensler.