The International Shaming Events Initiative (ISEI)

Research Goal

Why do countries talk about each other’s human rights practices? Which human rights do each country focus on enforcing, and what are their implications for the future of human rights norms and the rule-based international order? Accurately describing country-to-country verbal interaction is the first step to answering these questions.

News

• Data collection for US shaming is at its final stage.

Team

Current Members

• Jiwon Kim (Project Lead)
• Taoshu Ren (Feb 2022 - current, Head RA)
• Maryam Olajuwon (Fall 2023, RA)
• Claudia Yang (Fall 2023, RA)

Related Projects

• The US Human Rights Shaming Data: Who the US Shames, When, about What, And How Intensely
• Defining Human Rights: Communities and Competition in the International Shaming Network

Acknowledgements

This research has been supported by undergraduate research credit course (POLS399R), Graduate Research Grant from Emory Political Science Department, and Computational Social Science Datathon. I also thank Prodigy for providing an academic license.

Former members

Our alumni have advanced into positions such as state government policy analyst, medical research coordinator, med school (Brown), law school (UT Austin), and PhD in Political Science (Emory).

• Sarah Qadir (2020 Fall)
• Joanne Choi (2021 Spring)
• Sandy Gonzalez (2021 Spring)
• Anika Kapur (Jan - Jul 2022, coder)
• Karina Nehra (Jan - Jul 2022, coder)
• Celline Kim (Jan 2022 - May 2023, coder)
• Onew Choi (Jun - Aug 2022, coder)